August 2018 HOPS Brew Club Meeting Minutes

Meeting was held at Wes and Tracy’s house in Oneonta on 8/25/18 at 1:00pm. Thank you again for hosting the August meeting! Clams and Low Country Boil, you missed it if you weren’t there.
8 members in attendance, with many other “supporters”.
Discussion topics:

1. As a reminder, next month’s beer style is going to be anything you want to bring. Also as a reminder, here is a list of the beer styles for the new few months:
   1. September: Bring Anything
   2. October: Fruit Beer
   3. November: Braggot
   4. December: Imperial Stout
2. The Lion’s club charity event in October was discussed. The style will be Oktoberbest. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so soon so we know who is coming.
3. Upcoming Beer Festival: Cooperstown event on October 6th. Check out the link for more info: http://wzozfm.com/events-oneonta/eat-drink-cooperstown/06-october-2018-doubleday-field-parking-lot/
4. A discussion about getting a big grain order was brought up. If you think you will be in the market for a 50 lb sack of grain at some point soon, please let us know. If we get enough people interested, you may be able to save a few bucks. Please contact the club if you are interested.
5. The club has some left over stock of past charity event T-shirts and Sample Glasses. Please contact the club if you are interested in purchasing some.
6. Beers (Beer of the Month entries a-d: Gose).
   1. Wes’ Gose. Kit beer with additional lemon juice and peel added. Very nice example of the style coming in at 4.2%.
   2. Matt’s Gose. Also and excellent representation of the style.
   3. Chris and Frank’s Cherry Gose. Pushing the limits with salt and sourness (52 ml of Lactic acid!).
   4. Matt’s Special Gin Barrel, Chili Lime Smoked Gose. His regular 6 gallon Gose was split in half and had ¼ cup of lime juice, lime zest, 3 smoked Hungarian wax peppers, Poblano peppers, and 2 ounces of gin barrel chips added. Lime predominant, with little gin flavor coming through. Damn good beer.
   5. Chris’ Oktoberfest. From a year ago, still retained some malt backbone.
   6. Chris’ IPA. 80% 2 row, and 5 total ounces of Citra and Centennial hops (all additions <45 minutes). Nice balance of malt and hops.
   7. Chris’ Coffee Stout. With 17 lbs of 2 Row (22 total lbs of fermentables in a 5 gallon batch), this baby will do you good. The addition of 1 lb of cold brewed coffee and lactose added for residual sweetness turns this into a “Breakfast of Champions” beer.
   8. Chris and Frank’s Pero Porter. Good Porter base, with the addition of Pero instant drink powder. The chicory flavor of the Pero was definitely strong…
   9. Jim’s Plumtastic Wine. The 15% ABV drinks more like a 6% as it has a sourpatch kids like flavor.
   10. Chris’ Peach Mead. Even though the peach flavor has subsided, it has aged well compared to the last time we tasted this (2 years ago).
   11. Wes’ Lemon Wine. While still young, this was super tasty. Served in the “Party Bottle” and aptly named “Complex Ordeal”, this was made with 8 lbs of cane sugar, 2 lbs of brown sugar, 6 lemons and some other secret ingredients.
7. The September meeting will be at Alden’s house (255 White Hill Road, Oneonta, NY) on Saturday 9/22/18 at 1:00pm. The club will be doing a 50/50 raffle so bring your cash! The club will be buying the meat, so plan to bring a side dish if you can...as well as some homebrew!