April 2017 Meeting Minutes

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April 2017 Meeting Minutes

#1 Post by LeighK » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:43 pm

Lawrence Brewers Guild Meeting
April 13, 2017

Clean-Up
Leigh, Amanda, Ed

Hoppy Hour
May 4th - 23rd Street
June 1st - Burger Stand

Upcoming Events
Parkville - Sara will send out info/post to forum details of how to get donations there
Pints for Pets - need beers!
KC Nano Fest - Frank & Andy; Jenalea & Courtney; Bruce & Nate

Homebrewer of the Month
Bruce Murrish - lemon hefe, orange pale ale, vanilla bean stout, apple ale
Next month: Jim McGovern; then Dan Rose in June
Let Dale know if you are interested in being brewer of the month

Backporch Brewing
John Keffer is waiting to hear back from Ernst & Sons, will find a date

Maifest Details
May 6th, 9-5 @ Yankee Tank
Parking might be short but it is off Burroughs Creek Trail so you can ride your bike or park North of 23rd at the Burroughs Creek lot
Yankee Tank will provide heated strike water
Come brew! Please think about bringing your equipment
Angelo will be doing a 1 barrel - let him know if you are interested in helping
Will bring equipment trailer to sort, do maintenance

Quartermaster Update
Going to keep the trailer
At Maifest, we will unpack & clean, try to find leak
Someone has offered a side driveway to keep it in
Will replace 10-tap with two cooler sized jockey boxes, update hardware & add regulators
Will have an easy cleaning system for each jockey box
Implementing tent check out & jockey box check out rules to ensure they are returned in condition expected
Q: will there be a deposit?
A: No, too much of a hassel, three people holding on to equipment makes it difficult to deposit funds in LBG acct
Will be asking for money to do upgrades, up to $500; by-laws allow $200/yr and those funds were not used last year
Bob: would be better to keep shanks and you can resell
James Taylor: MOTION - approve up to $650, including existing budget of $200/yr for this year & last year (2nd by Stenger)
MOTION CARRIES

New Business
Competition - committee meeting April 27th
Great Taste
Aug 12th, $60/ticket
mail in lottery date May 8th
everyone should try to get tickets
don't sign up for tickets if you're not sure you can go

Treasurer Report

$8,385.22 in funds with $4,000 emergency
Current memberships have expired
141 paid members
Church should be paid through June
(lack of charts)

Library Report
Will be acquiring new books
Donations
Comic Book Story of Beer
National Geographic issue on 9,000 year love affair

Seminar - "John Got Railroaded" aka Natural Carbonation
Idea is, if you can carbonate bottled beer & get consistent results, it is the same process
John uses corn sugar, throws in saucepan until sugar is dissolved, bring to boil
When bucket is clean, cool off sugar water & siphon into bottom of fermenter/bucket - same process with bottles or keg
can pop pressure relief to dilute air so it is mostly CO2
let sit for a week or two
cut off dip tube, won't disturb trub
app on phone will allow calculations - corn sugar, cane sugar, DME
see Northern Brewer table
pro tip: use transparent hose, make a hose with two liquid ends - if you see bubbles in the line you have a pressure issue

Link to slides from the meeting: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... sp=sharing
Leigh

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Re: April 2017 Meeting Minutes

#2 Post by Ace » Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:27 pm

Do we have a tasting for June? I thought the upcoming tastings were posted in the meeting notes?
Thanks.

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