Tuesday, February 1, 2011

A New Poll is up

Pick an element that you'd like to explore for the March Meeting. Each member will brew a beer with the same recipe but substitute one ingredient to learn more about what each ingredient changes to the overall profile of the beer.

Meeting Notes for January 26th 2011

Several items were discussed at January's Meeting. The first item was setting up regular meeting dates. Last year was very busy for all members and we didn't meet nearly as much as we liked, so we set up a regular meeting schedule. Meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month with the next meeting being February 15th.

We also discussed members doing batches with the same grain bill but each person adding a single hop to learn the hop profiles of the various hops available. We can break this down into at least 3 categories... American, German, English........and more if need be.

Similar projects were discussed including using different specialty grains and yeast to learn those profiles.

We briefly discussed the possibility of being involved in the AHA Club Only Competitions and possibly hosting an event in 2012.

We'll be setting up a poll to decide which type of hops or specialty grains or yeast we'd like to do for our first "profile project" and an online form to pick which variety of hop/specialty grain/yeast you'd like to use for your brew that we'll review for our March Meeting.

Call for Judges - SODZ British Beer Fest 2011

The SODZ British Beerfest is back... Please let me know if you can judge this small limited scope competition. We need good quality judges as always and would appreciate your support.

Winking Lizard - Crosswoods
100 Hutchinson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43235
Saturday, February 26th – Judging will start @ 9 a.m.

Based on years past, judging will be 1 session in the AM, (so its an easy point!) followed by lunch at Noon. BOS will be after lunch with a short awards ceremony.

Please sign up to judge http://www.sodz.org/cgi-bin/RJU5000G.PGM or let me know if you can make it. Feel free to pass this invite on to you fellow beer club members or brewing colleagues.

http://www.sodz.org/BBF_2011_Flyer.pdf

Thanks and hope to see you there!

Frank Barickman