August Homebrew Club Meeting

Notes from the August '13 - SDSU Homebrewing Club Meeting

Wings and Brew Festival at Swiftel - Saturday, August 17th

• Taylors pantry is going to be there and do an extract brew - Derek is doing a "brew-in-a-bag" batch.

• Talked about bringing out homebrewed beers to give away for sample (asked Mike @ Swiftel) - Still not sure if that is okay yet for this year.

Craft Beer Tasteing competition

• Given 5 samples, you guess what beer you think it is, then choose your favorite.
• from this list we can determine a winner (most accurate taster) as well as the overall favorite beer of that style for the club.
• after a year we can determine our favorite beers from all the categories, and have a final voting to determine the favorite beer of the club.We pick a variety for the each month.

• 5 beers, need a 6 pack of each
• Roughly 3oz for each taste
• 6 pack of each
• $10 for entry
• 24 person limit

Items we'll need

• steward
• nice clear plastic cups
• voting sheets - have a guide for voting, and list what beer you think it is

Other Notes

• Flyer to put up in the liquor store to advertise meetings, give the flyer to Bob.

• Getting new glasses

• getting a different style glass?

• get smaller sampler glasses?

• get flights?

• Submitting dues?

• New club name, getting rid of the "SDSU" tag, perhaps everyone brings a suggestion and we vote on it as a club.

Homebrewing "competition" monthsWe decided to go to an every other month approach to give everyone more time to plan and brew something for that months style.

Here are the list of what styles:

• September - Zombie Dust

• November - Stout

• January - Christmas ale

• March - Bock

• May - IPA

• July - Session beer (less than 5% abv)

• September - wet hop seasonal -  Lee suggest having a grill out, bbq, camp out get together at the Anderson Hop Farm

Meeting Next Month (September 17th)

• Zombie dust clones - so if anyone wants to make it and have it ready to drink by then. We will score them and determine a winner.
• Steve has a bottle of zombie dust so we can compare to see how close everyone came.
• Taste Testing Competition:

Octoberfest

1. Sam Adams
2. Leinenkugels
3. Schell's
4. Summit 
5. Becks