Friday, October 26, 2012

Call for Learn to Homebrew Day Participation

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Save the date - Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 10:00am to 4:00pm - Learn to Homebrew Day. It's time again for the annual AHA Learn to Homebrew Day event. In addition to a fun day of homebrewing, we'll be doing several FREE raffle drawings in the afternoon (2:00pm-ish) for Homebrew Club Members and their guests (4 tickets max). We'll have raffle items for both new brewers and experience brewers alike. Be sure to come down and bring your new brewer friends for a chance to win some cool stuff.

Let Eric Reinsvold know if you're planning on coming down and brewing. He'd like to get a diverse number of brew setups; everything from the Crabtree Pilot brew system to extract rigs, so don't be shy about setting up and showing new people how you brew. Also, if anyone wants to demonstrate a mead or cider, feel free to spread your knowledge (but don't forget, Beer is President, so mead can be VP and cider can be Secretary of State). We may need a couple of RV water hoses and a splitter, but otherwise everything should be ready to go.

Juice of the Barley (Homebrew Shop) will be having sales / discounts all day and Crabtree is getting a food truck for us as well. If the weather holds up, it's going to be an awesome time. Family and friends are all welcome!

Feel free to contact Eric with any questions if you're willing to donate something cool for the raffle.

Cheers,
Eric Reinsvold - treehousebrewers@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

October 2012 Meeting minutes

Meeting minutes for October 1st, 2012 - held in the Brewer's Lounge at Crabtree Brewing.

The Russian Imperial Stout has been moved to kegs and the Wee Heavy is now in the oak barrel. The blended final gravity going in to the barrel is 1.026. A date will be set for the bottling of the R.I.S. in the near future.

Our brewery tour is scheduled for Sat. Oct 27th. Transportation is still being looked into by Dennis. We will be touring in the Longmont/Boulder area. Specific breweries have not been chosen at this time.

We are looking at having a friendly competition between us and Brewnion Colony around October fest next year focusing on German style beers.

BJCP classes are being held at the tasting room on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30pm. There are still openings for those who want to audit the class.

New members:

Eric Kent, Tiffini X and Brian Wille have joined our club. Please make them feel welcome.

Beers sampled:

Michael Hinton - Red Ale
Brian Schmalhorst - Passion Fruit Brown Ale (fruit beer contest winner)
Neil Fisher - Sweet Josie Brown Ale (commercial)
Neil Fisher - Brown Ale
Steve Skinner - Blueberry Lager
Neil Fisher - Imperial Brown
Eric Reinsvold - Pumpkin Belgian Beer
Steve Skinner - Ginger Beer