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.

On tap for the 7/17 meeting...

...will be a Berliner Weisse and a Brown Porter.

I'll try to bottle some off for those who are unable to make the meeting. Speaking of which, let me know if you will be attending. John, Tony and Ned will not be. If anyone else can't make it I'm not opposed to pushing the meeting back 2 weeks to 7/31, but I'll need to know asap so that I can contact everyone.