Each year in January we host a party where members bring food and beer, we hang out, have a high gravity club competition and vote on officers.
Active 2015 club members are invited. This is your best chance to renew your membership to maintain your homebrew store and beer store discounts. Check your email inbox for more info. The NBA leadership looks forward to partying with you all!
FYI, this is in place of the Janurary meeting, so no Thursday night meeting this month.
2015:
2014 was a landmark year for the NBA, we attended our first NHC as a club, filled barrels 7 times and served beer to the general public for the first time at the Big River Brewfest and the Harvest Gala. Below are some of the highlights from 2014.
Hello Brewers,
As the new year begins, lets take a look back to see what made last year awesome and look ahead at what 2013 will look like.
2012 wrap-up – the Mayans were dead wrong! | We started 2012 with 18 BAMF members, 6 (33%) were officers in the club. We collected everyone’s money and set up some by-laws to guess at how we would use it. In May, we determined that the club would focus on four things in 2012. We wanted to keep our trajectory narrow enough to achieve and broad enough to attract a wide range of members.
Experiments and education | We did an awesome job with the Single Hop Experiment. There were 16 different beers brewed using the same base beer and only changing the hops. This event brought us a lot of new members when we promoted it at the farmer’s market. There were many education series. We did our best to give you all something to learn each month related to your brewing. We talked about high gravity beers, decoction mashing, electric brewing, upside down fermentation and an in-depth presentation on water chemistry. Check the blog to see it all. We also got the chance to see the setups of our club members and trade ideas for getting things done more efficiently. A group of us also embarked on barrel aging. This project – for club members only – went into phase two in a BIG way at the end of the year. We’ll have five barrels full of beer by the end of March.
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