December 20th meeting recap

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We had a great meeting to round out 2012! Phenomenal year for the club. Looking forward to the potluck and high-gravity competition at North Loop in January for all members (you can bring a +1). Here’s what we discussed at the meeting:

  • Discounts
    • Robbie D. has secured us a club 10% discount at Elevated Beer, Wine & Spirits in South Minneapolis
    • Dan will talk to Liquor Barrel in New Brighton for discount
    • St. Anthony Village (SAV)
  • Brewers shirts
  • On Tap WITH THE NEW CLUB-OWNED JOCKEY BOX: the offerings from Learn to Homebrew Day (Nov 3) – Thanks again to Northern Brewer!

Nov 15 Meeting Recap

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NB also taught the NBA about the Top Tier.

Roughly 20 in attendance. Notes:

  • Introductions
  • New Business
    • Movember admiration – hats off to all those supporting men’s health
    • BAMF Meeting Recap
    • NBA @ NB – Learn to Homebrew Day recap
      • On Nov 3, the NBA got to brew a bunch of beer at Northern Brewer, and teach our skills to other people.  It was a great time for everyone who could make it.
      • We will be sampling the beers at the December meeting.
    • Off Flavor tasting recap
  • Experiments Continue reading Nov 15 Meeting Recap →

Barrel project phase two: rack construction

barrel project

This post and photography comes courtesy of club member Casey, owner of the four barrels we’re using for the barrel project phase two. Enjoy! — Grant

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We spent a little time at Aaron’s house yesterday building the Barrel Racks. I pretty much stood around and watched – we definitely had the right two guys doing the actual “build.” Tim and Aaron have some skills that I just don’t possess…so I let them do their thang! Every good build starts with a good drawing. Maybe Tim will sign this drawing and we can auction it off one day:

Teamwork. This is how shit gets done: Continue reading Barrel project phase two: rack construction →

October 18th club meeting recap

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Pictured above is a sample from our current barrel project that Nick brought to the 10/18 meeting for tasting

Here’s the recap of our 10/18/12 meeting:

  • Recap for new members/potential members: what you get by joining (% off at brew shops and 4Firkins), events etc…
  • Farmers Market – Aaron H. and Nate brewed a rye porter, used hops Grant grew
  • Big River Brewfest recap – 150 entries, earned around $350
    • Might be good to do a “what went good, what went bad”
      • Wrong = left one case of beer at Liquor store
      • Wrong = website database had a few entries missing
      • Right = website was only $20
      • Could signup for other stuff ahead of time
    • Nate has 6 cases cases of entries that didn’t make it to the competition, need to drink categories 1-3 soon. Party?
  • Future Barrel project – Aaron’s cellar
    • Cellar has the four 60 gal. barrels (Casey’s)
      • Cab
      • Cab
      • Zin
      • Merlot
    • Options – Flanders red, wee heavy, Russian imperial, barley wine, Belgian strong, saison, sour stout, lambic, sour porter
    • Grant will create form to vote. UPDATE: done
    • Club voted $200 is ok to use to build the barrel racks
  • Yeast experiment Continue reading October 18th club meeting recap →

Barrel project phase two: style voting

barrel project

If you attended the 10/18 meeting (meeting notes coming soon… wanted to get this done first) or have been paying attention to the email chain(s), we’ve got four barrels on loan to the club from Casey that need filling. We need to first determine styles so club members know if they’re even interested in participating. We WANT members to be interested in participating, which is why our members get to determine via (largely) democratic process what styles of beer barrel project participants will collectively brew to fill these four barrels (236 gallons!). The poll below will be left open until end of day 10/31/12, after which it will be disabled and votes tallied with a report out via blog post by end of day 11/2/12.

Stuff to consider: Continue reading Barrel project phase two: style voting →