This is a reminder that we’ll have our January meeting at the
Happy Gnome at 7pm, Tuesday the 5th. As the Upper Mississippi Mashout
registration is now open, we’ll do a short tutorial on how to enter.
We’ll also use this as a chance to give/get advice on any beers you
are unsure about or need to decide which category or subcategory to
enter.
If you’re not familiar with BJCP style guidelines yet, you might want to look through before the meeting:http://www.bjcp.org/stylecenter.phpInfo on the next CoC from TechTalk:
“The Club Only competition coming up for February is English Brown Ale
and is hosted by The Impaling Alers. We’re calling it “The Session
Challenge”. Entry information is located at the AHA site and in the
current issue of Zymurgy. Entries are due at Larry’s Brewing Supply on
or before Tuesday February 16th, 2010. (Larry’s is closed on Sundays
and Mondays) Judging will be held on Saturday February 20th, 2010.
Rattle those kettles!”
Category: Meetings
December Meeting Recap
There were lots of new faces at tonight’s meeting. Thanks
to Todd the plumber for the information about ventilating a basement area for brewing indoors. Check the link under resources at left.
Kristen showed us the difference between a kegged and bottle conditioned Belgium style beer. If you are bottle conditioning use Danstar Nottingham yeast, “it drops like a rock” (quote from Eric). So now we know that heather in a beer does not make it a Scottish ale!
There was no heather in Kris’s Scottish beers; it was an example of a
making three beers from one mash, a method called gyling or
parti-gyling. 60/-, 70/-, 80/- or 90/- are not styles of beer, the shilling ” /-” value was a reference to the wholesale price of a 54 gallon hogshead of beer. There more information about Shilling beers and recipes from Kristen at Ron Pattinson’s blog.