July 16th BBQ at Adam’s place 4pm-?

events

Hey Nordeast Brewers,

We are set for our first Northeast Home Brew Club Summer BBQ!  It will be hosted by Adam Sjogren’s place in Nordeast.

Location:

2227 Monroe St NE

Here’s what we have so far.

  • Meat on the grill will be provided by the club.
  • Members will bring plenty of beer to share and go around!

Side dishes

  • Guacamole – Nick P
  • Undisclosed side dish -Steve S.
  • Potato Salad -Matt P.

Desert

  • Something – Tim S.
  • New Glarus Belgian Red & Raspberry Tart and a Trinity Papy Legba – Nick P.

Fixins and Plates and such

  • Grant

Friends and Family are encouraged to come have a good time.  There’s talk that Adam will be brewing something on his new equipment!   Should be a fun time for all!  Can’t wait to see everyone and meet the families of all of the Nordeast Brewers!

Cheers!

Nick

June Meeting Changed to JUNE 25th!

upcoming meetings

June 18th is the Stone Arch Festival and Pracna will be absolutely packed to the gills so we were set with either changing the location, or changing the date.   We’ve decided to go with June 25th, the following weekend.   This  may end up being the day that we pick cherries.   That depends on how the cherries ripen.  Some people may be conflicted as that is the same day as the St. Paul Beer Fest.   That was a fantastic Beer Fest last year, but if you aren’t going to make it to St. Paul but still want to talk shop for a few hours…come on out to the meeting!

June 25th

Pracna on Main (back room)

4pm “SHARP” – 6pm

We will be discussing ways to improve your Extract beers.   Another topic that will be touched on hopefully in depth is water chemistry.    This is one I personally can’t miss!   I needs to know!

Cheers,

Nick

May meeting…recap/notes

meeting recaps

Here are my notes from our May meeting at Pracna on Main.   There was a few of us there, Andrew, Brian,  Nate, Chris, Kevin, Nick P (me), Brendan(?sp) and his daughter, Tim, Nick K. and Emily K.(showed up late, but with beers!).

We started it off with some general discussion about what’s going on with the club.  Trying to knock out details of Cherry picking in the Fall.  Trying to figure out a location for the July BBQ.   Trying to figure out how to create a website with a forum (your here aint ya?).

We sampled Tim’s Amber Ale that won 3rd place in the MN Craft Beer Week Homebrew contest!   It was fantastic, nutty, and malty.  He also sampled his oaked version which was even more delicious!

Then we went onto the Lambic tasting.  Bulldog NE had a Lambic blending class (which I attended along with Tim, and Megan).  They gave the remainder of the 5 gallon keg of Lambic to Pracna!   We sampled that as well as blended it 50/50 with a Lager.  Both versions fantastic.   A little girl may have accidentally sampled that straight up Lambic. 🙁  See didn’t like the EXTREME sourness and acidity of it.  What does she know at 16 months young anyways?!  Good work on that one B.

Then we went onto a prepared topic of Parti-gyle brewing as it pertains to Belgian Beers, and traditional Belgain brewing methods and styles.  Thanks for putting that together Nate!

We are going to be doing another brewing experiment similar to the Single Hop experiment.   This one is going to be a SUGAR EXPERIMENT!  We are putting together a Belgian Dubbel recipe that each brewer will be applying a different sugar too.

Note for attending Pracna meetings in the summer.  Be careful as whiplash seems to be an issue.  Stretching before meetings seems to be a necessity.