April 2019 HOPS Brew Club Meeting Minutes

Meeting was held at American Legion in Oneonta on 04/19/19 at 6:30pm.


16 members in attendance


Discussion topics included:

1. The Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans fundraiser home brew competition is scheduled for June 8 from 1:00 to 4:00 at the American Legion.  Brewers are to report by noon.  The style is to be open.  An e-mail to a sign up for brewers is to be sent out.  T-shirts will be available, $10 for competing brewers, $20 for all others.
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2. Catskill Hops Farm, run by Mark DeGraw 607-287-0323 has hops for sale at $13.50/lb.  Available hops include Cascade, Chinook, Nugget, Columbus, Triple Pearl, and Centennial.  We will discuss as a club buying quantities of different hops and splitting them up amongst those you do not want to buy a whole pound themselves.
3. It looks like we will be having another fund raiser with the Lions Club in the fall on September 28th.  More details to follow.
4. A very useful and free home brewer’s assistant app for your phone is Wort.  Lots of free recipes as well on this app as well.
5. Beers shared in this open style month included:

 

1.   Wes – Creamy Pilsner – unique style Czech Pilsner
2.   George – Light and refreshing Witte
3.   Christopher – Belgian Saison made with candy syrup
4.   Jim – Bitter Sight, and English Bitter
5.   Matt – Also had an English Bitter
6.   Todd – Dortmunder – First version all grain version of this beer
7.   Matt – Dragon Fruit Gose – Better with age as the Korean pepper paste Gochujang had some time to mellow.
8.   Eric – Belgian Brett beer – Sweet from November 2018 and will get less sweet with time.  
9.   Alden – Extra Strong Porter
10.   Eric – Six Pound Brown Braggot – Aged nicely.
11.   Chris C. – Peaches and Blueberry Mead with high ABV
12.  Chris H. – 2016 Grocery Store Beer with yeast harvested from Sierra Nevada bottles (Sierra Nevada give instructions on their website for how to harvest yeast from their beers)
13. Chris H.  – Peppered version of 2016 Grocery Store beer – total spiciness from Habaneros, Serrano's, and other peppers
14. Chris H. – Imperial stout (from the December meeting)–Aged on Cocoa nibs, chocolate Bhutla (AKA Chocolate Pepper X), and Urfa Biber Chili Flake – It is a creeper and much hotter than it smells

Note:  To sterilize fruit for beers, use Campden tablets.

1.  Reminder of the beer styles for the remaining months of 2019: April: open
   

May: Pilsner
June: open
July: Cream Ale
August: 3% ABV or as close to 3% as you can get.
September: Dunkel
October: open
November: Brett Beer
December Belgian Dubbel
January 2020: Wheat Wine

Wes won the Legion’s 50/50 raffle with a ticket bought for him for his birthday.  Congrats Wes.

The May HOPS club meeting will be held at the American Legion in Oneonta on May 17th, at 6:30