Meeting held at the Snelson’s house in Oneonta with (14) HOPS Members in attendance
Many orders of business were discussed including:
Many orders of business were discussed including:
- There were two additional paid members, Brian Gengenbach (Susan’s brother) and Teresa (Jim’s wife from Blind Guy Brewing).
- Some ideas for future field trips, with club sponsored transportation, include going to:
- Awestruck/Gravity Cidery (as Mike knows Peggy)
- Green Wolf brewery
- Combined trip to Royal Meadery and Helderberg Meadworks
- A BJCP beer judge can be scheduled in the future to come down from Albany to taste club brews and grade them. There is no charge for this service, just sharing beers with the judge.
- The HOPS for Heroes is to take place sometime in the May timeframe. Becky at Council Rock will handle the logistics and advertising. Suggested beer style to be American pale lager or American pale ale. The style will be confirmed as Wes is to check if the winning beer recipe can be put on tap at Council Rock again (though that may not be the case this time as Council Rock already has many beers of this style of their own and may not need another).
- Wes will talk to Roger about scheduling another Big Brew Day at Council Rock sometime during the winter months.
- Another style Big Brew Day would be to meet at Sweet Meadows green house for a “Teach a Friend to Brew Day” that is open to the public and having club members show up with their own equipment and brewing for the day. This could include sharing previously made beverages and grilling some food, etc. and could be in addition to the Big Brew Day at Council Rock, just scheduled for a different month.
- The idea of offering HOPS brew club growlers or howlers for purchase was quite popular.
- There were many interesting beers samples this meeting including:
- Barb and Bob brought a couple of tasty offerings including their own version of a SMASH (Some Mosaic and Simcoe Hops) beer and a Pumpkin beer where they were able to share the recipe.
- Matt’s backup Pumpkin beer including an ounce of licorice root making this quite a unique beer.
- Jim’s Honey Wheat and Chris’ Honey Brown were tasty
- Chris and Frank had a Saison made with cider yeast, ginger and coriander
- Mike had a 2 year old cider that was made into hard cider that was sweet, yet sour.
- Two hard roots beers including Todd and Susan’s from extract with vanilla and Dale’s all natural root beer made from real roots and lots and lots of spices. Both were very interesting and feedback was provided for some future revisions.
- The next meeting is to be held on the third Friday of the month on January 15, at 6:30 p.m. at My Father’s Place restaurant in Oneonta and will feature a return of the cut throat Christmas, so bring along a beer related item to exchange.
