Lawrence Brewers Guild

Meeting Minutes by Tim Dossey

March Meeting Minutes
Lawrence Brewers Guild (LBG)
March 13, 2025 @ 7 pm

Presentation slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AzMc413cwUHHRDJZvsrpXmrZGC4z_f7U-QIDNrQAlZI/edit?usp=sharing

VISITORS/NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to Craig, Scott, Drake, Shelby and Paul ...

LBG February Meeting Minutes
7 p.m., February 13th, 2025

Presentation slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tV7kZJt7Jix3ZqFeuAqWz4ZnXDTXneYa-6BkcB4zt24/edit?usp=sharing

VISITORS/NEW MEMBERS
No new members

HOMEBREW AND VOLUNTEER DISCUSSION

UPCOMING EVENTS
KC Brew Fest - Saturday, Feb ...

All, due to inclement weather, the January meeting scheduled for Jan. 9 has been cancelled. Watch your email for a survey to vote for the 2025 officers! We hope to see you at our next Hoppy Hour on Thursday, Feb. 6, at Merchants Pub & Plate and at our next meeting on Thursday, Feb. 13.

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Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/hiQNF

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The business closures reflect a steep decline in homebrewing interest in the United States. The AHA’s own membership is down. It had about 45,000 members between 2016 and 2019; in a 2023 year-end annual survey, it counted only 30,000. After ...

He encouraged a Democratic-controlled Congress to pass legislation in 1978 that legalized home brewing. At the time, there were fewer than 100 breweries in America, most of them making the same tasteless schlock. Today it is not uncommon to find big cities that have 100 breweries on their own ...

Ron, try this link for the January 2024 slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... drive_link

Couldn't find a current/active post detailing PayPal, payment options, etc, figured I'd start a new one
Looking to renew your membership? Trying to buy Brewfest tickets? Needing to do other business with the Guild?

The easiest/fastest/self-service method is via our PayPal:
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Until recent years, Kansas and Missouri did not have a local fresh hop option for most breweries. Kansas Hop Co is changing that, delivering fresh hops within an hour of being harvested for brewers to put straight in the mash tun, for a super fresh beer.

https://www.flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks ...

We were talking at tonight's meeting about naturally carbonated kegs vs force carbonated and it got me thinking

Who has done natural keg carbonation and who has either bought or built a spunding valve?
https://byo.com/project/build-your-own-spunding-valve-to-carbonate-in-the-keg/
https://www ...

This last week, KC lost a big member of the professional brewing and homebrewing community

Nearly three-dozen breweries throughout greater Kansas City have initiated plans to brew, package and sell a mixed six-pack of beers based on Beagle’s recipes from his days at Colony KC. All proceeds from ...

Good read!

https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/20 ... ial-crisis

The portions on inclusion can apply to homebrewing too! I've been trying to think up ways to reach those we may not be targeting/reaching

https://www.thepitchkc.com/boulevard-brewing-becomes-lightning-rod-for-criticism-following-tepid-response-to-sexual-harassment-allegations/

Over the weekend, Kansas City found itself in the national spotlight via a viral Reddit post. The author, a former female employee of Boulevard Brewing Co ...

Ok, I might have re-read the Oct.co article again and caught this, they only used 10%. So the previous % might be for the rice dryness malt character mix, vs biological count

Over the last two years, he and his team have made two commercial batches with nuruk. First, they inoculated rice with ...

Part of my issue has been reading/research, trying to figure out why their specific on the function/use. I keep getting caught up on the sentence,
“With test brews that we’ve done with white koji, if you make it 20 to 25 percent of your grain bill, you could make a sour beer in a standard 1-hour ...

Bought the Koji, still haven't used it :/