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Dave has been brewing beer since 1983 and judging since 1985. He holds the BJCP rank of Grand Master II, and has served in the program as Exam Assistant Director, Exam Director, and Western Representative on the BJCP Board of Directors. Early in his brewing, while at the University of California pursuing a degree in Forestry, he met a young woman who worked in a world-class yeast lab (the Professor of the lab recently won a Nobel Prize), who helped him build a diverse yeast bank. He married her.
In addition to brewing beers regularly and evaluating beers wherever he goes, Dave likes to cook and dabbles in charcuterie and motorcycle racing. In his day job, he works as a wildland fire scientist for the State of California.
Dragon's Milk Tales of Gold by New Holland Brewing Co. was judged as a Specialty Wood-Aged Beer, BJCP category 33B. The beer casts a lightly hazy deep orange color, and sports a massive creamy head of light cream-colored foam that shows great persistence.
The nose presents a richly fruity... Read More
BJCP Category 33B Wood Aged Imperial Stout
Instructed to serve the beer in a snifter, my assistant uses a large one from the cabinet and fills it vigorously about half full. It presents a deep brown-black color that is opaque when viewed through the glass, but holds hints of deep... Read More
pFriem Vienna Lager by pFriem Family Brewers was judged as BJCP Category 7A - Vienna Lager.
The beer is served at 42o F in a standard 200-ml kölsch straight-sided stange glass, poured vigorously to produce a nice head on top. The beer is solidly amber in color, around 8-9 SRM, and... Read More
Little Red Cap by Grimm Brothers Brewhouse is being judged as BJCP category 7A, Altbier. It comes to me after a full pour into a classic German stange cylinder great for evaluating beers. Beer is served at is 44oF.
The color is a lovely orange-bronze of roughly 11-12 SRM, with a faint... Read More
Abita Amber Lager by Abita Brewing Co. was judged against the 2015 BJCP guidelines for category 2B International Amber Lager.
Amber lagers owe their provenance to the Vienna style first brewed by Anton Dreher in 1840s Austria. They combined the crispness of the emerging lager family ... Read More
Straw-BERRY Fields Hazy Milkshake IPA by Garage Brewing Co. was judged according the the 2021 BJCP guidelines for category 29A Fruit Beer - strawberry fruit mixed in a Hazy IPA base style.
The beer is presented in a large krug glass at 50oF, and shows a milky light amber color with a... Read More
