July 2019 HOPS Brew Club Meeting Minutes
Meeting held at Jim & Teresa’s house. Thank you for hosting, always appreciated. Brats provided by the Club, Plenty of excellent dishes to pass were provided by the members, making for a wonderful meal.
14 members in attendance.
Topics of discussion:
SHIRJ Event grossed around $1300.00, minus their expenses, net was about $350.00 to the charity.
Lions Club Event is September 28th, at 1:00 p.m. Style is Open, No Pumpkin beers.
Based on the style being Open for this event, we are switching Dunkle from Sept to October.
3% beer style winner will get to submit a sample to Phil Leinhart at Ommegang for analysis to see how close it is to 3%.
July Style : Cream Ale: BCJS Style Guideline 1C. Cream Ale: Overall impression: A clean well-attenuated, flavorful American “ lawnmower” beer. Easily drinkable and refreshing, with more character then typical American Lagers. Aroma: Medium-low to low malt notes, with sweet, corn-like aroma. Low levels of DMS are allowable, but not required. Hop aroma medium low to none, and can be of any variety although floral, spicy, or herbal notes are most common. Overall, a subtle aroma with neither hops nor malt dominating.
Samplings (1-5 were Beer of the Month style):
August Meeting Will be held on Aug 24th, 2019 2:00 p.m. at Wes & Traci’s 400 Airport Rd, Oneonta.
Alden Banks will Host the September meeting: tentative date Sept.20th, Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.
Upcoming beer styles/challenges for the remaining months of 2019:
Aug: 3% or as close to 3% as you can get
Sept: Open
Oct: Dunkle
Nov: Brett
Dec: Belgian Dubbel
Jan 2020: Wheatwine
Meeting held at Jim & Teresa’s house. Thank you for hosting, always appreciated. Brats provided by the Club, Plenty of excellent dishes to pass were provided by the members, making for a wonderful meal.
14 members in attendance.
Topics of discussion:
SHIRJ Event grossed around $1300.00, minus their expenses, net was about $350.00 to the charity.
Lions Club Event is September 28th, at 1:00 p.m. Style is Open, No Pumpkin beers.
Based on the style being Open for this event, we are switching Dunkle from Sept to October.
3% beer style winner will get to submit a sample to Phil Leinhart at Ommegang for analysis to see how close it is to 3%.
July Style : Cream Ale: BCJS Style Guideline 1C. Cream Ale: Overall impression: A clean well-attenuated, flavorful American “ lawnmower” beer. Easily drinkable and refreshing, with more character then typical American Lagers. Aroma: Medium-low to low malt notes, with sweet, corn-like aroma. Low levels of DMS are allowable, but not required. Hop aroma medium low to none, and can be of any variety although floral, spicy, or herbal notes are most common. Overall, a subtle aroma with neither hops nor malt dominating.
Samplings (1-5 were Beer of the Month style):
- Genesee Cream Ale: The classic for Upstate NY.
- Matt B.: Jekyll Brewing Co. Mama Pajama, can flavor, more hoppy then Genny, light, watery.
- Jim G. Hazy Days, 5.5 ABV, Mt Hood, flaked corn, table sugar. Very nice, has good flavor
- Frank & Chris: Cream Ale 2019: 10 IBU, 6.2%, Wakatu Hops, very good, well liked, unique flavor-maybe attributed to the hops.
- Wes A.: Creamed Corn: Pilsen Malt, 2#’s corn, tiny amount of Black Patent for color (.005 oz ?) not bad
- Chris C.: Honey Wheat: 5.5% 1# Honey in boil, S06 Yeast, honey came through in the taste.
- Eric B.: ESB: London Ale Yeast, Vienna, Marris Otter, Blk Patent, Challenger hops, nice, smooth
- Chris C.: ESB: 9#’s Marris Otter, Special B, Nice, Good.
- Chris C.: Raspberry Honey Brown, Kit beer. Pretty tasty.
- Frank & Mike Duheme Collaboration: Pale Ale, Mosaic. Nice
- Alden B.: Dunkle Saflager 23 yeast, good
- Eric B.: 4 bottles of unlabeled Ommegang crew beer.
- Chris C.: Licorice Stout: 9%, 17#’s 2 row, 2#’s coffee, 1 cup Sambuca to flavor. Licorice very prominent in aroma and taste.
- Frank & Chris: Comsi Comsa by Savauge, bottled by Sara, very sweet.
- Chris C.: Mead, Blueberry Peach: Fresh Fruit used. Alcohol flavor a little hot yet.
- Wes A.: Lemon Wine: 12%, 12 large lemons and 10#’s sugar, Very Lemony aroma & flavor, slightly bitter.
August Meeting Will be held on Aug 24th, 2019 2:00 p.m. at Wes & Traci’s 400 Airport Rd, Oneonta.
Alden Banks will Host the September meeting: tentative date Sept.20th, Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.
Upcoming beer styles/challenges for the remaining months of 2019:
Aug: 3% or as close to 3% as you can get
Sept: Open
Oct: Dunkle
Nov: Brett
Dec: Belgian Dubbel
Jan 2020: Wheatwine
