Lawrence Brewers Guild

Tasting: cider - club owns a fruit press, club members can use it out if you want to press your own.
Crispin - a brand to try, but wasn't available for the tasting. Cider with belgian yeast.
Lots of discussion: we should start a thread on the forum (yeast, apple varieties, etc.)
1st cider: sweet ...

Neil -

Meetings are (almost) always the second Thursday of the month, and the date, time and place are posted on the main page of the site: http://lawrencebrewers.org/main/ .

We won't have a meeting in December, but we'll start up again in January.

Send me a PM if you have more questions.

Lisa ...

Tasting – Lee. Belgian beers: a variety
1.Boulevard “Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale”
2.Member submission – Jim?
3.Petrus “Aged Pale Ale”

Seminar – Brick
"Farm Reports" - world agricultural market issues that affect home brewing

Business Meeting - Ellen

New people
Grant
Curtis – started all grain ...

I think the "Fall beers" tasting was a hit. It was nicely done, and a good variation on the one-style tasting we normally do (I shudder at the thought of an entire tasting of "pumpkin beers" - no matter how much I like the style).

Well done, Lee. And thanks for running the tasting, Dale and Glenn ...

Tasting – Dale Wheeler
Fall beers
1.Lakefront Brewery - “Pumpkin Lager”
2.Ska Brewing - “Euphoria Pale Ale”
3.Avery - “Old Jubilation Ale” - an English strong ale
4.Breckenridge - “Autumn Ale”
All the beers are available at Jensen's.

Seminar – Andy (and Jason) – Club equipment
The club's two new ...

Sorry it took me so long to get this out. This is from the meeting September 9th. - Lisa

Tasting - Lee: Oktoberfest Beers

New people: welcome.
Clean up crew: thank you.

Treasurer’s Report - Clint
We have money. Approximately $10069. There are about 30 Brewefest tickets still available. See Clint ...

It's a crazy hot day today with the temp above 100 degrees for the fifth day in a row, and the meeting hall is HOT. There are a ton of people here. As luck would have it, Lee had work obligations and Brick didn't put together a seminar, so we can get straight on to business. Let’s get ‘er done ...

Tasting : IPAs – a crowd favorite – thank you, Lee!
1st beer: more of the British style: British Port from Oregon
2nd beer: Sierra Nevada Torpedo
3rd beer: Odell’s IPA
The last two, beers 2 and 3, are the American-style IPAs, and they were the preferred beers for the crowd.

Seminar : Sean
Grains ...

Tasting – thanks Lee – Wheat beers
Beer #1: hints of clove, esthers/phenol
Beer #2: grassy, more bitter in the nose than the first, drier, hoppier than the first
Beer #3: reminded people of a Belgian, balanced flavor

Beer #1: 312 Goose Island
Beer #2: Boulevard Wheat
Beer #3: Sierra Nevada ...

Seminar : Brick – hop information, hop utilization, bittering, aroma, etc.
Next month’s seminar will be grain tasting.

New members
A couple new members – found us through the forum. Welcome.

Clean-up crew?
Steve, Chuck, George – Thanks, guys

Treasurer’s report – Clint
About $3900 in the ...

Just to put in my $.02 -

Cooling the wort in an ice bath in the sink: you can speed up the process (without adding ice directly to the wort) by agitating the wort in the pot. I stick a long-handled spatula in the pot and tweak it every so often so I can keep the liquid moving a bit (transferring ...

Tasting (Lee) – Tasting beers for recipe formulation – a continuation of last month's tasting seminar
For basic styles, check the BJCP guidelines for the style you’re interested in. ( http://www.bjcp.org )
Things to consider: water (hard water in Kansas - filter? pH balance?), base malt, hops ...

Yeah, that would be a big fat "OOPS" on my part: I didn't make it to the meeting. If someone else took notes (after a round of boo-ing on my absence, so I hear), then I am in their debt... and would ask them to kindly step forward and post some minutes from last month.

Sorry. Mea culpa.

This month’s tasting: how to taste, the process of tasting, like judging. See BJCP web site for more information ( http://www.bjcp.org/index.php ). Thanks, Lee (as always).

Seminar : Clint explains how he made his own version of a “randall” (for dry-hopping your beer) for sale at Northern Brewer ...

Tasting - Imperials (thanks, Lee)

Doing it casual this time – everyone sit down, we'll pass the single pitcher around.

The term “Imperial Stout” comes from beers that were made in England for the Czars in Russia. Big beers, barrel kegged. Higher starting gravities, higher finishing gravities ...