Next Meeting:
As the cold nights and short days are ahead of us as we enter this Autumn season that is quickly looking like Winter around here; we might stop and reflect and ask ourselves, "What the hell should I brew next?". In this reflection, some of us seek out seasonal ingredients, as we see in a cup of mass-marketed Starbucks coffee, or others of us might be looking for savory ingredients reminiscent of a Thanksgiving meal; and the traditionalist in us might just be looking for a dark, roasty, and malty brew to keep us warm while we cozy up with some streaming internet vids to keep us company with our brew and self pitty. 'Tis the season to celebrate with friends and good homebrew. Cozy up with the club this next meeting and share your latest brews and totally inappropriate jokes and wisecracks.
GABF Highlight:
A highlight of mine, thanks, guys! The Jameson castmates section was my major highlight of the day. Sorry, I didn't see some of you guys and sorry I couldn't keep up with some of you guys. I will never complain about GABF 2019! Crowd surf GABF! Thanks to Mike Tyler for keeping my fat ass off the ground.
ISpindel / Colter's Podcast:
Colter has started his own podcast Homebrewing DIY. He currently has
610 episodes out, his shows don't cover ingredients or recipes but rather the entire art that surrounds the homebrewing community which is DIY and all the shapes that can come in. It is well worth checking out.In a recent episode, he covers the iSpindel with one of the creators, Dave Osadchy. They dive into how the product works and how it came to be. The interesting part is how this is strictly a DIY project as you cannot buy these assembled.
As a club, we checked if people had an interest in building one of their own. The idea is this; as a club, we can make a group buy on parts to save cash on the cost. The Ispindel is unique as it is basically a tilt hydrometer but cannot be sold in the US as it infringes on US patent law; it uses Wifi to give readings on the gravity of your beer/fermentation and the data can be written to an online document or some brewing software interfaces with it. It is a fairly handy tool as you can get readings without opening the vessel.
The plan is we would then set a date to have a build day. We would together then construct, solder, and burn the shit out of our fingers till we have them all built. People that don't show would be given their bag of parts and sent on the road to tackling this on their own.
The list of people interested (please add or delete your name as you wish, read/write access is given to viewers). We will review this list at the next meeting and make a cutoff for orders and figure out funding options. At the moment we would be looking at a potential January/February/March build date as the slow boat from China might take a moment to get here with these high-quality parts. In the end, we would be hoping for a club full of users of Ispindel users that can extrapolate the best use cases on how to use these devices.
Meeting Info:
Where: Some Place Else Brewery
Location: 6425 W 52nd Ave, Arvada, CO 80002
Date:
11/20/2019
Time: 7:00pm
Info:
Bring beer and an amazing attitude to share with great people free of racist free political conversation 😉
October Meeting Recap:
Attendants:
Cody, Evan, Chris, Rick, Sam, Bob, Robin, Mike, Mick, Gordon, Voss, and Eric; hopefully all humans were accounted for.
Meeting Recap:
Some great conversation this meeting and amazing beer conversation by all. This was a small meeting in comparison over the last few years. We had time to taste and re-taste beers and have some conversations.
Beers:
- Evan – Kolsch – 4.8% – Crisp, malty, straw-colored beer. Extremely smooth. Described by some as not a Kolsch thus lacking some of the traditional Kolsch qualities given by the yeast. A clean Pils style beer.
- Rick – Czech Pilsner – 5.5% – A tasty and smooth brew. Brewed in April of 2019 and lagered for months. This brew was clean and clear with a balanced malt to hop profile. Nice work on this long term investment!
- Robin – Session IPA – Brewed on Cascade and Chinook (homegrown). With Pilsen golden light malt and aromatic malts. A big nose on this beer and a nice clean bitterness. A perceived sweetness and question about the alcohol content. It was determined that this might not be as low alcohol as determined based on the OG and FG reported. A great conversation continued on how to determine these factors and how to dial these elements. Homie, you need a refractometer, I will try to bring you one.
- Cody: NEIPA – 2 weeks in the bottle – Brewed on Amarillo, Moasic, Idaho 7, Citrus and Laurel Hops. Dry-hopped with Cryo Hops. As quoted by members a member of the club "This one will get you in the cockles!"; interpreted as this beer has a ton of spirit and soul. Nice work on this ale Cody!
- Mick – English Brown / Light Brown – The consensus was this was a soured beer. 🤔 Sorry, Mick.
- Bob A. – 7% American Stout – Brewed on Oak with Columbus, Willamette, and on Belgian Abby yeast this young beer at 6 weeks old proved to be a bold young character waiting to get some age in the bottle to be sampled again. Bring it back Bob! Such a non-racist punch to this beer! How does a Bob do it!?!?
- Chris – Belgian Double – Made with 2-row, Marris Otter, Turbinado, Caravinne, Aeromatic, and Special B and hoped with EKG, Hershbrucker, Goldings, Toppenish, this high gravity brew was fermented on MangoveJacks Yeast @ 7.5%. Tasting notes of; Very fruity, quite grainy flavor profile, great beer, and club award-winning were all mentioned.
- Eric – Belgian Quad – 10+% Huge rain quality/stone fruit, Big bubbly quality, A blackened fig quality. This beer has grown and improved from the last time it was tested at our "Get wasted in July Fiesta, Belgian Beer Competition", Eric placed last in the category, not to point out flaws but more-so to point out age has value. This beer has come into its own. A mature flavor and developed profile have shown up in the months that have passed. This is a case study in how the older you get the better you are, take note of young beers.
- Gordon – No one knows what the fuck this beer is – Not even Gordon – This has become some sort of secret society with what Gordon brings. It might be from some frightening Epistein cellar he has in his basement – or it could be from some New Fangled brewery from upstate New York or New Arvada or New Haven Connecticut. Anyhow this beer is seeming like Barleywine and old. The mass consensus is that this beer is "Fucking delicious" and "sweet like the devil's candy". Others noted that this is a beer that needs "a pairing of a black and blue- cheeseburger". This has to be a first of discussing a comparison to blue-cheese.
- Chris – Cherry Mead – A one-year-old – maraschino cherries and sweet, a nice cherry taste and profile like fresh cherries. Nice work, complex and involved tastes.