High Beer Fashion Edition
February Club Update:
If you have enough skin in the game of homebrewing you will know what your most successful beers were. You could also give credit to the processes, procedures, and equipment that got you to where you are today. For most homebrewers it is the joy of the journey rather than the destination. The reason we brew is for the love to know how things work. We are all amidst the journey in creating a product to share and enjoy.
I am not here to talk about successes now. I was inspired by a reddit post regarding “Accidently Drunk Homebrewing Stories”. While I now tend to not open or sample beers till I am well into the boil this was not always the case. I had to learn that conducting a mash while drunk isn't ever part of any recipe nor does it lead to the best outcomes. Reading through the comments in the post made me reflect on my younger years in brewing while living at college. My drive for making beer was not from a creative process or a goal of making great beer; it was mostly because I was 20 years old and figured I was gaming the system. Learning to brew by pouring over old Charlie Papazian books was interesting enough and gave me a hobby on my weekends at college.
I do have to reflect on evenings where we would forget to add hops after doing the chill, after we also killed a keg of the last batch. Or times when we thought it would be a great idea to put a pot of espresso coffee into the brew to make beer that would also keep us up. Or the time that we cleaned out the remnants of a cantaloupe stand at the end of the day to go home to make cantaloupe ale. Most of these brews would be awful by my standards today, it was also a fun time to get drunk on the weekends and play around with some applied science. I am not sure I will ever take such a whimsical approach to designing recipes, but I do know that the foundation of brewing and drinking with friends never gets old.
Five Star Chemical Ordering:
Those of you that didn't get in on the order we still have some remaining supplies to get rid of. We have 3 bottles of Sani-Clean ($12.90) ,1 bottle Star-San ($17.23) and 5lbs. PBW $$3.43 a lb). If you are interested let Evan know. First come first serve, paypal/cash only.
AHA Membership:
As many of us are members of the AHA we get benefits from being members, from discounts, to early ticket releases we all now have another perk. OTMP is now a registered supporter of the AHA; meaning that if you use the discount code OTMP at checkout you will receive $5 off an annual membership as well as the club will be given $5. Feel free to share with anyone looking to join the AHA. This can be an easy way for those of us that annually renew to also roll some extra cash back to the club.
Competitive Brewing:
Anyone looking to enter into the competition we could get a group of us to submit together. I am sure there are a few members that would be able to rank rather high in competition, if we join together we can also complete drop offs together. We can discuss this more at the next meeting. If any of us is interested in getting into the pro-am for next year this would be a great start. (Updated November 2023)
February Meeting Info:
Where:
Dennis' House of Foam (West Arvada)
Location:
18435 W. 83rd Dr, Arvada 80007
Date:
2-21-24
Time:
7:00 – Beer tastings
Notes:
RSVP:
Register Beers and RSVP to the meeting here.
January Meeting Recap:
Who didn't go home smelling curry?
Attendants: See attached notes in the Google Sheets
Meeting Recap / Beers: