Education is one of the key tenets of the NBA club, so each month at the regular meeting we have a topic around education, experimentation, DIY projects, guest speakers, or other topics to expand our knowledge around ingredients, equipment, process, and more.

Over the years there have been TWO topics on Mild as an underappreciated style — A History of Mild and May is Mild Month. The ‘Explore A Style’ months are usually accompanied with homebrew and commercial examples to sample during the presentation — and it is clear that any style can vary greatly, even if from the same recipe.

That ties in with experiments like Same Recipe, Different Brewers where no two of a variety of batches seemed like the same beer at all. This is different than the Single Hop Experiment and Yeast variety experiments.

Many of these beers are brewed on systems built by the members themselves, including Dual Stage Temp Controller and creating shortcuts with Carboy Hacks.

Every month is something different with big plans penciled in for the next months and beyond. Check out the Education & Experiment menu at the top of the page here to see what else we have been up to. Do you have a topic you would like to present to the club? We are always looking for more!

Cheers!