Month: July 2021

OTMP – July Meeting 7-21-21 – June Meeting Recap

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Club Update: 
The June meeting was amazing in so many ways. We were hosted at Charles basement brewery and bar. The crowd was in full swing and I am fairly certain that my ears were still ringing on the bike ride home as the shit talking and jokes were in full swing. We got to see some faces that we have not seen in many months and of course the brews were top notch and helped facilitate an amazing sense of community and joy. Much thanks to our host and our club for the continued support of doing home meetings and being a truly independent club. Let the good times roll! 
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To Can Seamer, or not to Can Seamer, that is the question:
The answer is a yes, there is an obvious interest in purchasing a can seamer. The general consensus from the club seems to be that an Oktober can seamer would be the logical investment. Gordon opened the gates of the deal by throwing in a crisp $100 from his wallet. At the moment we have 8 members interested in placing money against the purchase. Names were not gathered on who had committed money against the project, I am also into throwing $100 against it, based on the forums Chuck, Charles. If you have committed to this purchase please bring $100 cash to the next meeting or you can contact me for Venmo/Paypal information. 
The next logical statement with regard to this investment was who gets to use it. Some thoughts were thrown around about how this can be managed. If you are an initial investor in the project you would have free reign to use the canner. If you didn't make the initial investment you would be charged a small fee for the rental; $15, $20? (Thoughts and feedback will be gathered at the next meeting). The rental fee would help maintain the canner and also go into investments of cans. 
The model we would be considering is the Oktober SL1 as this is the one that fits our price range. Information can be found in the link below. I am not certain of can end type we would need for our configuration and for a more competitive can purchasing, I know Ryan had some information on this. Look it over if you have interest in this investment and bring feedback to the next meeting. 
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Deep Dives on Beer – Ryan Pachmayer
Ryan Pachmayer, likely the most active OTMP member and the guy that always knows what is up and coming and fresh on the Craft beer scene shares another article of his. 

Deep Dive on Brewing Italian Pilsners:

If you were to lighty dry hop a classic German pilsner and call it an Italian Pilsner, you would not be incorrect, but there is a little more to the style than dry hops. From the classic Birrifico Italiano Tipopils that started this style, to beers that were inspired by Tipopils like Firestone Walker’s Pivo Pils, to today’s emerging American interpretations, there is a lot of ground to cover. A surprisingly delicious assortment of beers fall under the category of Italian pilsner and we’ll talk about them all. Their common thread is that they feature more hop flavor than most traditional pilsner varieties, while maintaining that classic dry, crisp snappiness that is the hallmark of any pilsner beer.
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Making Lager-Like Beer Quickly At Warm Temperatures

In many corners of lager brewing groups, you’ll find that some of the most experienced and heralded brewers will swear by low temperatures and a great deal of time as two of the primary reasons that their lager beers are so good. These are the methods I often use myself, but what if you don’t want to wait 10+ weeks to drink a good homebrewed lager? What if you don’t have the ability to keep your beer at low temps for weeks upon weeks? If you follow some of the practices and strategies below, you can make fast and warm lager or lager-like beer that is indistinguishable to many drinkers, even some very experienced ones. And you can do it in under half the time.
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Ryan Pachmayer talks to Adam Draeger about His Pro Journey

This week Ryan Pachmayer crashes the show and talked to Adam Draeger about his pro journey. Adam is the owner and head brewer at Inventors Brew Pub in Wisconsin.


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Special Sauce – Jim Spaulding:

None other than the amazing, Jim Spaulding, has offered his insights and genius to us plebeians. Sit up, and listen up, as this veteran homebrewer walks us along on his totally insane path of homebrew dominance.


 
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Talking Beer – Colter Wilson:
Our favorite Utah flavored podcaster that brings us content on the regular all hand delivered in a custom pint glass for our ears and our minds to enjoy. He serves up fresh content, ideas and guests that keep the kids over on Reddit coming back each week. Check out what is fresh at his site over on homebrewingdiy.beer.
This week I spoke with Ron Pattinson about his new book AK. We also discuss beer history and British Ales
This week we talked to the face of BruControl about their software that automates pretty much anything about your brewery.
Meeting Info:
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Where: Sam's House

Location:

5180 S Van Gordon St

Littleton, CO 80127

Date:

7-21-21

Time: 7:00pm

Note:

As this meeting is a distance for some of us to travel I will be offering to capool down to his house. You would need to be at my house around 6:20pm to depart. If you have interest in riding down with me let me know with a reply to this email. I have room for myself and 4 people as long as someone is willing to ride bitch. If you need info on my hour let me know. 

If you can't make the carpool with me I would urge members to consider lining up rides over on the forums if needed. I would like a good showing for Sam's house but would also be as safe as we can driving across town to go drink beers. I know I will be bringing a water bottle along to stay hydrated. 

Info from Sam about the meeting:

People can park in our driveways, or on the east side of Van Gordon St.  Please do not block any of the neighbor’s driveways (usual courtesy). 

People can enter the backyard through the gate between the house and the garage.

I have 8 patio chairs, so some people might want to bring their own folding chair just in case.  I have a single patio table, so if somebody can bring a folding table it might be helpful.


June Meeting Recap: 

Attendants:

Evan, Gordon, Ryan, Chris, Evan Bland, Charles, Jim, Dan, Scott, Dennis, Aaron, Sarah, Jeff, Eric, and Chuck 

Meeting Recap:

Holy beer meeting! I am fairly certain that there was far more beer brought to the meeting than could ever be consumed. The meeting was filled with summer joy and tons of great beers you can read about below. It is so god damn nice to have such a great club with great brewers all willing to make this club what it is. 

Beers:

  • Scott Jackson – American Pils – Brewed with Mt. Hood hops, corn and rice. This beer had a beautiful body to it and a nice crisp yellow color to it featuring sharp hops.
  • Dennis – Imperial Bavarian Pils – 8% – Brewed with Tettnang and Saaz hops and was extremely smooth and clean. 
  • Aaron – Mexican LAger – Dubbed “Wedding Party Crasher!” Brewed with maze and pale malts and fermented on 3470 and cleaned with biofine. Hops were Sarachi Ace and Monteuka hops. 
  • Slim Jim Spaulding – Vienna LAger – Bright yellow colored beer featuring a bready quality. 
  • Dan – Vienna LAger – Brewed with Pearl hops, this lager was clean and crisp. 
  • Chris – Helles Keviek – Brewed on Oslo yeast, pils malt, munich, biscuit, and melanoidin malts and Mittelfruh hops. A cloudy pale yellow color. 
  • Chris – Belgian – “Angry Growler” – Fermented on WLP001 with Columbus and Chinook hops. This sharp, spicy and bitter brew was a hit. 
  • Dan – Dobblebock – Reused Mash with new grain, 4 types of munich malts, featuring a sweet brandy Augistiner flavor. 
  • Scott – Baltic Porter – This roasty, bubbly, creamy, brew was made with cold steeped grains 
  • Jeff / Sarah – Burton English Ale – English Strong – A beautiful burnt orange color with an Old Ale like quality to it. Brewed on burton yeast. 
  • Jeff A. – Gose – Brewed with Sea Salt, homegrown gooseberries, and coriander. 5%, Light on the sour, it was commented that “It tastes like Champagne with a touch of salt” 
  • Aaron – Hazy IPA – 5.5%, not sweet, mosaic flavor 
  • Jim – Golden Hen Farmhouse – This bubbly brew carried a sweet nose with it, it was commented “This is a really good saison”
  • Ryan – Imperial Saison – Dupont yeast, Subtle fruit, highly carbonated and sweet. 
  • Aaron – Centennial IPA – 6.7% dubbed the “Bi-PA” “Smells like centennial, tastes like centennial” 
  • Dan – Helles – This highly carbonated brew was slightly sweet, clear, clean and dry. 
  • Scott – Double IPA – 11.3% “Pliney the Balder”  brewed with Amarillo, Centennial, Jarillo hops, fermented on Safale005
  • Jim – Dubble – This brew was bubble and sweet and a toasted medium brown. We had the option to do a side by side with a Westvleteren that Charles just happened to have on hand (who is this guy?) The comparison was the Westvleteren was a bit more dry and had more caramel notes. 
  • Scott – Belgian Tripple – Bright yellow and sharp hop flavor
  • Eric – Trippel – Good carbonation
  • Gordon – Arvada Beer Company beer that has lived hissen in the back of an old haunted refrigerator – biere de garde – the nose of this beer held up over time, a bit of a cidery, cinnamon toast crunch flavor 
  • Ryan – “Rye of the Tiger” – Brewed 2017 aged 18 months with Dennis 
  • Jim – Quad Trappist Ale – The tannins were coming out in this brew and likely a bit past prime, “utter garbage” was spoken by some, and others think would go well in a crockpot on high for 8 hours with a slab of beef with it.  

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