March 2016 Re-cap

education, events, homebrewing, meeting recaps

Spring is here! Which means brewing season is upon us, especially for those of us who brew outside! To get everyone fired up, here is what it coming up, and what we did in March.

Upcoming Events

  • April 6th-comedy showcase@ Lake Monster 8pm
  • NBA Taproom Takeover – April 7th 7PM @ Able Seedhouse and Brewery. Wear your NBA Gear!
  • April 14th Science Museum of Minnesota – Social Science Fermentation Informational 4pm-10. We will be doing a presentation on Malt. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Tyler (tylerabye@gmail.com).
  • AHA’s Big Brew Day! May 7th 10am @ Northern Brewer Minneapolis! Get all of the deals here.

March Meeting Notes – March 17th 7PM @ Midwest Supplies

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Call for home brew at the meeting. Particularly a call for beer critiques.
Barrel updates.

  • Hobo tasting in april, as the beer is going to warm up and we hope it starts to have a bit more complexity as it warms.
  • Koval, those in can taste. Sample was brought to see if people want to do anything with their share. Barrel will be emptied and a call to fill will happen soon.
-Rustic: Red-need top up. Needs more time
  • Flanders: Needs more time
  • Lambic: Viscous, complex, needs more time.
  • Quad: Pedio infection, has cleaned up.
-New Ex-Bourbon barrel: Russian imperial stout. 14 people have signed up to fill it.

We have a club system, if you are interested in using it, send an email to the club mailing list.

Donation Better Bottle. Please help give back to Eastside Neighborhood services. They give us our normal monthly meeting space for free, and we give them back some $ to put towards their funds and food shelf.

ESNS, Annual Wine Tasting and Auction asked us to donate our time to teach them how to brew.

The NBA has many planned experiments this year. If you would like to sign up and do an experiment and present it to the club, please see our experiment page.

-We are in contact with Northgate to do a large scale exp

-Everybody brew the same beer – Aug

-Diastatic power of differing malt – Oct

Monthly Education – Topic Off Flavors

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Steve and Aaron braved the isle of macro beer and chose Corona Light as our control and base beer. We tasted for Diacetyl, Acetaldehyde, Acetic, Astringency, Phenolic (or medicinal) and DMS (Dimethyl Sulfide). Each beer was dosed with an additive to give it that off flavor. It was an interesting experience to say the least! You can find the guide that they used to do this @ My Life on Craft 

3 thoughts on “March 2016 Re-cap”

  1. Hello, I recently saw your barrel episode on chop and brew and was checking out your website and I’m digging your barrel cradles! I just picked up a used 60 gallon wine barrel and would like to replicate the barrel cradles your club is using. Any chance you have some drawings or instructions for constructing the barrel caddies?

    1. I actually need to make another barrel rack for a new bourbon barrel we got. I will document it and create a post for it when I do!

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