October 2011 meeting

The October MALTZ meeting will be at my house on Friday, 10/21. We will keep the same 6:00-6:30 start time. Please do not not bring or invite any new members to this meeting.

If you do not know my address, call or email me and I will make sure you get it.

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

Want to help out at a Homebrew competition?

The Hops Shack is hosting the east region of the BJCP sanctioned 2011 Homebrewtalk.com homebrewing competition on Saturday, 3/26, and we need your help!

We'll need stewards (15) and cellar masters(2) to help bring beer to judges, keep beers cold, collect score sheets and plenty of other things throughout the day. Plus, you get to finish off beers that the judges no longer need. There will be a maximum of 300 beers in this competition, so there will be a minimum of 2 judging flights - one in the late morning and one in the afternoon.

Please contact Kyle if you are interested in participating in this or would like additional information.

1st Meeting of 2011

We'll be meeting on Wednesday, 1/26, 6:30pm at the Hops Shack. There's no topic yet, so we're open to suggestions.

Beer & cheese sampling on 11/5!

Some of you have already seen this via facebook, but for those of you who haven't, there will be a beer & cheese pairing/sampling at The Beer Corner next Friday, 11/5 from 6-9pm.

For more information, please contact me directly via email or phone, or visit facebook.com/ltbeercorner.

The next MALTZ meeting will be held sometime in November. Updates to follow.

August meeting

Sorry for the short notice, but the August meeting will be next Wednesday on 8/18 starting between 6 and 6:30 at The Hops Shack in Bucyrus. We will be reviewing BJCP category 16 - Belgian and French Ales.

June Meeting at The Hops Shack

The meeting will be on Monday June 28th at 6pm or so at The Hops Shack.

I think we'll be covering BJCP category 15 Wheat and Rye Beers.

Come Thirsty.

June Meeting

Alrighty guys and girls. It's time to schedule another meeting!!!!!!

Get with Kyle or myself and let's get this thing rockin'!!!!!!

April meeting + Brew day

Reminder that the April meeting is Saturday, April 24th at Kyle and Emily's house, starting around 3. Feel free to bring your gear and brew!

Feel free to bring a food dish to share at the meeting, since we'll be in the middle of brewing around dinner time (or bring some money and we can all chip in on pizzas).

We will be reviewing BJCP Category 14 - IPA's, so bring a bottle or two of your favorite IPA.

Hope to see you all then.

It's March already?

I apologize for the drop in the frequency of updates here, but I can assure you that we're all committed to making MALTZ a great homebrew club!

Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 22nd at 6:30pm at the Hops Shack in Bucyrus. Should we be unable to meet there, then the meeting will be at Kyle and Emily's house on the same date and time.

At this meeting we will be reviewing BJCP category 13 - Stouts, so bring a couple bottles of your favorite commercial and/or homebrewed examples.

There will also be a club brew/party at Kyle and Emily's on either Saturday 4/24 or Sunday 4/25. The date is not certain yet, but it will certainly be that weekend. Bring your gear and brew a batch, or just enjoy watching other people brew for a change. Either way, it should be a great time. Please plan on bringing some type of food dish to share with the group, and let me know if you will be able to attend.

Hopefully we'll all meet up again on 3/22!

SODZ BBF

I keep forgetting to post this, but there is a local Beer Competition in Columbus on February 27th.
The SODZ club is putting on a British Beer Festival. The flyer link is posted below.

http://www.sodz.org/BBF%202010%20Flyer.pdf

January Meeting at The Hops Shack!

Now that the holidays are over, it's time to get back to club meetings. We will be meeting at Aaron and Rod's homebrew store, The Hops Shack on Monday, 1/18 at 6 pm.

Visit http://www.hopsshack.com for address information. Please RSVP by leaving a comment here or by sending me an email so that Aaron knows how many to expect.

If I remember correctly, we're on BJCP category 12 in our quest to review all of the styles, so bring your favorite porter.

Hope to see you all there!

Next meeting

With Christmas quickly approaching, it's the time of year when no one has time for much of anything other than putting up decorations and spending way too much money on gifts, so we will not have a meeting in December. We will, however, have a meeting/belated Christmas party at some point in January at The Hop Shack in Bucyrus.

Have a safe and happy holiday season, everyone!

Club Brew

I finished reading up on the reiteration mash technique and have the processes under control for our Barley Wine Club Brew. We need to finalize the recipe and find a date when we can all get together and brew. After reviewing the reiteration mashing technique with everyone, I'd like to propose a few small changes to simplify the process a bit. I'll see everyone at the next meeting.

Next meeting will be on Monday, 10/19...

...pending John's attendance. He, Rod and Chad all paid to participate in the Seibel Kit and as of yet none of them have tried any of samples. There are 10 samples left and as we learned at the last meeting, 10 samples will consume an entire meeting. Bring a 6'er of your favorite yellow fizzy beer.

The start time is negotiable considering that it's a work day. I'd like too shoot for around 6 or 6:30 pm. If you are planning to attend but are unable to make it by 6:30 please add a comment here or shoot me an email at kyle.klaiber@gmail.com.

This meeting will be at my house. I think you all know how to get here but if not, just let me know.

Another topic for discussion will be the location of the November meeting. Is a trip to someplace like Elevator, CBC, Barley's or The Pub an option?

Next meeting?

Any objections to having the next meeting (date to be determined) on a Monday evening?

Anyone else willing to host a meeting at their house please speak up. Or if you want to have a few meetings at restaurants again, please speak up.

My main goal is attendance and participation, I don't care where the meetings are.

August meeting

The August meeting will be on Friday, 8/28 at Kyle & Emily's house with a start time of around 6:30.

Next Meeting

There will be a poll posted regarding the next meeting date. With summer here it's sometimes difficult to get everyone's schedules to work out, but we should always shoot for the best attendance that we can. Choose ALL of the dates listed in the poll on which you will be able to attend. The date with the most votes will be the next meeting date. If you have suggestions for a date that is not in the poll, please email me with it and I will include that as an option as well.

The focus for the next meeting will be completing the Siebel tasting kit. The samples are perishable and need to be used. We can continue the BJCP category review at the following meeting with categories 11 and 12.