Roughly 20 in attendance. Notes:

• Introductions
• New Business
  • Movember admiration – hats off to all those supporting men’s health
  • BAMF Meeting Recap
  • NBA @ NB – Learn to Homebrew Day recap
    • On Nov 3, the NBA got to brew a bunch of beer at Northern Brewer, and teach our skills to other people.  It was a great time for everyone who could make it.
    • We will be sampling the beers at the December meeting.
  • Off Flavor tasting recap
    • Nathan recapped all the wonderful flavors that were tasted (ex. butyric acid, dirt, soap)
    • If we have enough interest, this could become an annual event.
    • Check out the summary put together by Nathan here.
• Experiments
  • Barrel Project 2.0 (Nick P, Aaron D, Casey)
    • Shooting for 16 participants per barrel
    • Recipe owners:
      • Wee Heavy: Dan Banks and Grant Wright to lead recipe formulation
      • Russian Imperial Stout: Tyler Bye and Justin George to lead recipe formulation
      • Flanders Red: Tom Burtyk and Nick Pederson to lead recipe formulation
      • Saison Rue clone: Casey Holley and Tom Burtyk to lead recipe formulation
      • Recipe owners are in charge of the recipes, but all input is welcome and acknowledged.  The Google Groups is already lighting up!
    • Barrel racks built, 13 of the 16 casters delivered (other three coming very soon)
    • Next steps: burn some sulfur sticks, fill the barrels with water to swell up the wood, then fill with an acid wash.  Once we coordinate and participants and decide on the brew timeline, drain the barrels of water and fill immediately.
    • Just like v1.0, we will be employing the two-thumbs rule as our first line of quality assurance.
    • Sour barrels will be prioritized for filling as they require more time for completion.
  • Yeast Experiment with Northgate Brewing (Aaron D. or Andrew N.)
    • Guessing this will happen winter/spring 2013
• Official BJCP tasting session
  • Slight change from previous meetings.  We need ONE person to volunteer their beer for a BJCP style critique.  This means it must be brewed to, or very near, an official BJCP style guidelines.
  • Tom Raley
    • Category: 21A – Spice/Herb/Vegetable
    • Recipe: Pumpkin Ale
• Break
• By Laws meeting Reminder – Sat. 11/17, 10:00am at Aaron D’s
  • UPDATE: By Laws have been updated.  Please check the link.  Changes will be highlighted at the December meeting.
• ExComm nominations
  • President: Nathan Gunter
  • Vice President: Nick Pederson
  • Director of Treasury: Matt Price
  • Director of Operations: Tyler Bye
  • Director of Communications: Grant Wright
• Education topic – Richard – Electric Brewing and Upside Down Fermentation

Another meeting in the books! Thanks to everyone for showing up and sharing some great libations.  Next meeting is December 20th @ ESNS.  Hope to see you there!