7 p.m. Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
We met in person, again, and it was very nice. We were postponed a few days from the regularly scheduled meeting because of a late season snow storm.
Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... sp=sharing
Presenters: Officers
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Kansas Craft Brewers Expo - Saturday, March 12th. (Okay, this was before this meeting, but it was after our originally scheduled meeting date.)
- April Hoppy Hour - Casbah/Burger Stand - Thursday, April 7th
- April Monthly Meeting - Thursday, April 14th
- Parkville Saturday, April 30th
- May Hoppy Hour - Henry T's - Thursday, May 5th
- Pints for Pets - Saturday, May 7th -- 7th & Ohio
- Maifest - ?
- We have multiple commercial brewing collaborations this year
- Brewfest is Saturday, September 24th
- Holiday party is Saturday, December 3rd
- Parkville
- Saturday, April 30th, 1PM-5PM
- English Landing Park, 8701 McAfee St., Parkville, MO 64152
- We have got all our club tickets spoken for (both kegs and servers]
- We have fresh paint on the jockey box and the serving gear is ready to go
- Contact Jake (bucketchemistry on the forum or president@lawrencebrewers.org) with questions
- Pints for Pets
- Saturday, May 7th 4PM-10PM at 7th & Ohio
- The Heebs (cattycorner from the Wedels) will be hosting this year
- Three bands
- Two food trucks (Mr. Bacon & one other)
- Food will be included with your donation
- Commemorative Pint Glass & plenty of beer
- All donations go to The Lawrence Humane Society
- Donate some beer!
- We will have our serving gear on site -- just bring a keg
- This isn't as "formal" as Brewfest -- partial kegs are acceptable (more like the holiday party)
- We are also wanting some volunteers to serve
- Club Brew - Fruit Beers
- Our May tasting will be fruit beers: Peach & Cherry
- Jake has grain available for the teams
- Club Collaborations -- we have several collaborations scheduled
- Free State -- February 24th
- Yankee Tank -- March 24th
- Fields & Ivy -- April TBD
- Irvine Winery -- May 15th
- Servaes Brewing -- August TBD
- Lawrence Beer Co. -- Autumn TBD
- Josh DaVee, Ryan Metcalf and Frank Dillon represented us at this brewing on February 24th
- They brewed "Bizzare Rye'd" Rye IPA
- Ask them about their eventful brew day!
- This was premiered at the Kansas Craft Beer Expo and is on tap now at the pub
- Give it a try -- I think it's very tasty!
- Jon Keffer, John Pepin, Gregg Kipers and Tim Morland will represent us at this event
- Thursday, March 24th
- Brewing a Weizenbock
- We'll be attempting a step mash with a Ferulic Acid rest
- We're still in the early stages of planning
- First planning meeting will be March 24th
- Fields & Ivy will help us with barrels -- we can "piggy back" on one of their purchases
- We're targeting a brew day in May
- We need around ten brewers to work on a beer for a 55 gallon barrel - We have eight volunteers so far
- Post suggestions for a style for the beer on the forum
- Initial idea is ten brewers brew the same recipe and then blend in the barrel, after fermentation
- Jump on the forum discussion if you're interested
OFFICER REPORTS
Treasurer
- 41 paid members, so far
- Dues are due by the end of February
- The big event for the month was when a long outstanding check from Brewfest for Barbecue cleared the bank
- Two new copies of Palmer's "How to Brew"
- Return of the barrel program
- Club Brew -- Fruit Beers
- Maifest/Pints for Pets
- Water Chemistry
- Jake Jeffers & Josh Devee
- In addition to a presentation on the "how-tos" they did a ton of work on gathering data about Lawrence tap water
- Check out the slides for the meeting for some really good data on Lawrence water
- RO vs. filtered tap water experiment
- Brew the same recipe with both RO water and filtered tap water
- Josh brewed two batches of American Light Lager
- Jake brewed two batches of Irish Stout
- 21 people were able to tell a difference between the two American Light Lagers
- 11 people preferred the batch using RO water and 10 preferred the tap water batch
- 16 people could tell a difference between the Irish Stouts
- 9 people preferred the version with RO water and 7 preferred the tap water batch