Month: September 2020

OTMP – September Meeting 9-16-20 (In person)

evan.sherlock

homeless.png
Club Update: 
As the months keep rolling on and the need for normalcy in life charges forward, we as a club have hit a crossroads. Our club (for the time being) is now homeless. Like an abandoned greyhound after a bad race we are now left to fend for ourselves. 

The official stance from SPE is as quoted:

At this time, we will not be able to host OTMP meetings at the brewery.   Ryan and I are making this decision for a couple reasons.   One is the obvious COVID 19 restrictions that we have in place.   We are only allowing up to 6 people at a table inside.  Furthermore, our inside capacity is limited to 50% so any seats we are filling we need people buying beer.  Unfortunately, the OTMP do not tend to buy many beers when they meet at the brewery.  Furthermore, since March when we could only offer take out and even when we opened up again, we have seen very few of OTMP's coming to the brewery to support us and make sure we stayed open so there is a place to meet.     I am sure you can understand why we would not want to offer our space if the support is not mutually beneficial.

It also seems that this will likely be the stance from any other brewpub/brewery/restaurant we approach. As they have many restrictions placed on them, we likely don't fit their needs as typical customers or as fitting inside their models of making a profit and remaining open. 

Gordon and I spoke at length regarding this issue we face (Thanks for the beers Gordon!). We have arrived at a few facts:
  • The club must find its own answers to this problem, in house. 
  • This problem cannot be solved by one person or a few people.
  • We need to do what we can to maintain being an active club with good membership.
  • We need to support SPE when we can, if we want to maintain this relationship on the other side of things. 
I feel that these bullet points are a good opening for the next meeting, maybe prior to sampling. For myself, this club is one of the few extracurricular activities that I am involved in and I want to maintain an active club. We just need more heads in on these decisions to find our path. 

We need to identify locations for the next 5 months (10/21,11/18,12/16,1/20, 2/17), cold months are the hardest to address. We have had a few members offer to host, we just need to nail down the who's who. If we can nail down the next 5 months we can ensure a path forward.

I have faith we will discover solutions, we just need to find them.
-Evan Sherlock 
gadzooks-live-beer-meeting.png
Meeting Info:

Where: Evans Backyard – Come through the gate by the boat on 65th Ave, the lights in the backyard will be on.

Location: 6525 Independence St.  (Northwest corner of 65th and Independence)

Date:

9/16/20

Time: 7:00pm


Meeting Information (please read):

This is a no guarantee of social distancing type meeting. Please, if you feel ill, have symptoms, have a fever, been in contact with vagabonds, loose women, stray dogs or had ebola recently please dont attend. Also, please keep in mind I have a family and a bedtime myself.


Remember to bring a glass to taste out of; beers if you have them. I have seating for 14 at tables, plus a few other places that you might be able to slightly distance yourself from the 'rona. If you plan on making the meeting please RSVP to this email prior to Wednesday so we have a count.


Hope to see you then, I look forward to some good times!

beer news.png
In case you missed it:

To unsubscribe from this email please respond “UNSUBSCRIBE”.

OTMP – August Meeting (Online) 8-18-20 Tuesday – July recap

evan.sherlock
I have reached out to SomePlace Else about meetings and am still waiting on confirmation. We had a few other plans fall through, regarding location. Thoughts? Ideas? Notions?

Myself, I cannot handle another  Google Meets/Zoom/MSTeams/Skype/Hangouts/Duo/WhatsApp/Facebook/SomethingAppleProduct meeting, in my life. I need some human interaction. Feeling the same? Let's solve this together.

Where do club meetings land? I can likely host this month's meeting (with the blessing of Saint Gretchen the Wiser). The larger concern is where do we fall in the winter months(no pun intended)?

If we need a roundtable discussion, I am open. Otherwise fellas, we need to start shopping our options to maintain; maintain being a club. 

I miss the great beers, but mostly, I miss the fellas. 

Feedback welcome. 

-Sherlock

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 4:40 PM Olde Town Mash Paddlers <oldetownmashpaddlers@gmail.com> wrote:

drunk_ber_bottle_3.png
Club Update: 
As current times have made it difficult to schedule regular meetings we hit a snag this month. We will be doing an online beer meetup this Tuesday in place of the regular 3rd Wednesday in person. Colter will be hosting the Tuesday meeting! Jump online and grab a beer for some great homebrew talk. It was amazing that last month we were able to do a meetup,I hope that that can be figured out for next month. For myself, I have some personal scheduling issues this next week on top of school opening again and classes resuming. It seems that many of the club members are currently busy with wrapping up the summer, with vacations, camping trips, home projects, among many other things. 
If you have availability to host the club next month or any of the meetings for the following months please speak up. We will likely be looking at limited availability for meetings in the future as well as staying outdoors for meetings. If you think that this is something that you can offer to help with let me know. We are looking into going back to SPE in the future; we just have to begin navigating how this arrangement works for us and them with regard to attendance numbers, seating, and current regulations.  

Cheers! Hope to drink you guys soon. 
-Evan Sherlock 
Meeting Info:

Where: Online – Google Meets

Location: The Internet

Date:

8/18/20 (TUESDAY!)

Time: 7:00pm

Link:

http://meet.google.com/ebe-awjd-dqg


July Meeting Recap: 

Attendants:

Evn, Ryan, Cody, Voss, Jim S., Gordon, Nicholas, Chuck, Karen  +  Gretchen, Hurley 

Meeting Recap:

Gordon shared some of the information he had questions about in the book “The Lost Art of Farmhouse Brewing”. In the book they listed “POF -/+”. He had never seen this information before and wondered if others in the club had seen this before. As no one had heard it before we looked it up and found; this is commonly labeled for yeasts that have a natural mutation to block phenolic production.

Cody wondered if anyone else brewed the Club competition beet that was announced way back in February. I can say for myself, I forgot all about this event that we were hoping to complete a tasting of this summer. Any other club members out there that brewed it? We could still arrange for this at a future meeting.  

Beers:

Voss: 2 year old Pale ale. Clean and a nice citrus profile that was subdued with time.  

Nicholas – German Pils – 5% – A clean beer brewed on L13 – Imperial Global Yeast. A clean lager that is perfect for summer. 

Cody – Belgian Golden Strong – At its 15th tasting for club meetings this beer showcased its dry candy backend dryness. This brew has improved over its time but might have diminishing returns at this point. 

Jim – Mountain Steam – A clean brew fermented on 2112 California Lager Yeast. Made with domestic pale malt, crystal 55, all Northern Brewer Hops. Kraeusened and cold conditioned in the same way that Anchor Steam is finished. 

Evan – Imperial Milk Stout – 3 years old and smoothing out more with time. 11% beer, the lactose really comes through now with age. 

Nicholas – Stout – Brewed with Magnum and EKG this 6% beer was aged with charred oak which really comes through pleastently among the roasted malt profile. 

Jim S.- Classic Pale Ale. Using Marris Otter and British Crystal 45. All EKG whole cones, and West Yorkshire yeast “Timothy Taylor”. A clean ale that brings you back for more. 

Chuck – Double – Brewed on Abby yeast. This beer was from the last July competition. The flavors have mellowed and come into their own. 

Voss – Feb 2019 Belgian IPA – 10.2% – Brewed with Mystery X, Chinook. Come in with a huge hop nose. “He hit a double and has runners in scoring position; a great brew!” as noted. 

Nicholas – 7% beer with a boatload of hop additions; I have no notes on what style of beer this was, sorry. Brewed on 5/16 this beer featured Chinook, Cascade, and Summit hops and fermented on 1056 American Ale yeast. Featuring a new school west coast flavor profile. This beer was crystal clear and beautiful. 

Ryan – Farmhouse Saison – At 9.7% this beer has a nice HAze to it and a sexy farmhouse nose to it. 

Gonrdon – Barrel 471 Breckenridge Double IPA. Great boozy beer. 

In case you missed it:

Beer Talks Online:

Dear Members of Olde Town Mash Paddlers,

 

The remarkable history of beer and homebrewing will be explored in two virtual programs in September hosted by the Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures in Fort Collins.

 

Thursday, Sept. 3, 6-8 pm

Re-Creating the Past:  The Archaeology of Beer will be presented by Travis Rupp, known as the Beer Archaeologist.  Rupp will survey the beginnings of beer in the ancient Near East through its development and stylization throughout Europe.  He will explain how beer production and consumption were at the core of ancient cultures and imperial expansion.   Rupp is the Innovation & Wood Cellar Manager at Avery Brewing Company.

 

Thursday, Sept. 17, 6-8 pm

Charlie Papazian, considered the Father of Homebrewing, will present A Century of Homebrewing.  Papazian is the author of The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, first published in 1984 and now in its 4th edition (2014).  An American nuclear engineer, brewer, and author, Papazian founded the American Homebrewers Association in 1978 and the Great American Beer Festival in 1982.  In 1983, Papazian founded the Association of Brewers which merged with the Brewers Association of America in 2005.

 

Each program is $5 per Zoom connection, and reservations and payment can be made at globalvillagemuseum.org.  A check, including an email address, can also be mailed to GVM, 200 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, 80521.  Zoom connection information will be sent to registrants on the day of the program.

 

We hope you will sign up, and please feel free to forward this information to others who may be interested.

 

Thank you,

Leisa Taylor

  
image.png


Olde Town Mash Paddlers - Raster File - Final-small web quality.png

To unsubscribe from this email please respond “UNSUBSCRIBE”.