We’ve got a meeting coming up a week from tonight!

Thursday September 20th – 7:00pm
Eastside Neighborhood Services

Agenda:

• Welcome new members! – Introduce yo selves
• Tasting/critique session– since we’re not meeting at a bar anymore, let’s start pouring beers we’ve brought to share
  • Kolsch – Trevor, new member, this will be his first meeting
  • English Brown ale – Gordy, new member joining at this meeting
  • American Amber – Tom, new member, this will be his first meeting
  • Belgian Triple – Justin
  • French Cider – Nick Pederson
• Nordeast Big River Homebrew Competition update– Tyler and Nick
  • Remaining volunteer needs (stewards still needed 9/28 and/or 9/29!!)
  • Buy your $25.00 ticket online to the 10/13/12 Nordeast Big River Brewfest and save yourself $5.00 off the door price
• Off-flavor tasting session– Nate
  • Who has signed up so far?
  • How many spots are left?
  • When will the session occur? (we’d talked seriously about Sunday evening 9/30 – need to 100% confirm that)
• Harvest Gala update – Nate and Justin
• Barrel-aging sour beer project update – Nick
• Meeting space update – We will be meeting at Eastside Neighborhood services indefinitely, third Thursday of every month
• MN State Fair scoresheet review– Grant
  • We had five members take home ribbons. Way to represent!
  • Bring your scoresheets and samples of your beers entered for tasting and discussion
  • If you’re not sure why you got the score you did, someone within our group may be able to better articulate the reason(s) for the score
• Cider discussion– Grant
  • There has been plenty of cider discussion on our email chain lately. Let’s pool our collective knowledge on process and tips so that those getting ready to ferment their first batch don’t feel like they’re flying blind
    • Of particular interest are these brett-based ciders Tyler and Nick were talking about. Guys feel free to chime in on this niche during the meeting.
  • Check out a recent cider-centric episode of BrewingTV for some basic info prior to the meeting.
• Winter high-gravity (>7%) beer competition– begin high-level planning discussion
  • Will be patterned after our successful summer low-gravity (<6%) beer competition
• The next group experiment– what will it be???
  • In the wake of the wildly successful single hop experiment, we should arrive at a consensus as to our next collective experimental endeavor and determine a chairman of this committee to lead the organizational charge