Nov 5th, 2012 meeting minutesEric Reinsvold: President
Bill Gehrman: Treasurer
Dennis Swingler: Vice President
Erik Briscoe: Brewery Liaison
Steve Skinner: Secretary
Dave Butler: Media Specialist
Our seasonal beer competition will be held at our Dec meeting. Please bring in your Stouts, Porters, Barleywines or spiced beers that would be appropriate for the Christmas season. We will be setting up for the contest at 6:30. Anyone who is interested in helping out is encouraged to come in then to get stuff set up.
We are looking at rescheduling our Booze Cruise to Feb 23rd. Check your calendars now and reserve that date if you are interested in attending. The more people that sign up, the less it will cost each person to go. More information will follow as the date draws near.
We are looking at having a beer club competition between Brewnion Colony and Treehouse sometime in March. Nothing has been set for sure, but we are looking at 3 styles: Imperial IPA, Imperial Stout, and Belgian Dark Strong. These beers can take a while to brew and condition so you might want to consider getting something started soon if you want to participate.
We also discussed having everyone brew a simple beer, identical grain bill and yeast and the only difference would be the hops. Everyone participating would use a different hops and when the beers are ready we will bring them in and compare the flavors, that way we can sample what an individual hops tastes like. Eric R. will be posting a recipe before too long and we are looking to share the beers at our January meeting.
Elections for officials will be coming up in March. It's a few months away, but give it some thought if you would like to run for office.
New members:
Kurt Dallow, Brad Denney, Paul Dolan, Jeff Graber, Mark Lindemann, and Marco Sanchez.
Welcome to the club!
Beers Sampled:
Dennis Swingler - 2nd run Stout.
Ken Kramer - Cider.
Shawn Crawford - Oktoberfest.
Eric & Tiffini - Engllish Pale Ale.
Ken Kramer - 2nd run Wee Heavy.
Marco Sanchez - Peach Pale Ale.
Kurt Dallow - Brown Ale.
Submitted by: Steve Skinner
Welcome to all our new members!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to brewing the SMASH (Single Malt and Single Hop) beer. I think this is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to gain a lot of knowledge about what different hops taste like without spending years figuring it out for ourselves. As Eric pointed out as many of us as possible will brew a SMASH beer with the same grain but a different malt. I certainly encourage everyone who can participate to do so. This will be a simple all grain beer to brew and I bet you will be surprised at how many great beers will come of this! May be that some of us can get together and brew together, especially if you are new to all grain brewing. So Eric, what's the malt going to be??? I'm in:>)