Meeting held at My Father’s Place in Oneonta
(17) HOPS Members in attendance with about ten beers sampled
Many orders of business were discussed including:
(17) HOPS Members in attendance with about ten beers sampled
Many orders of business were discussed including:
- The HOPS for Hounds charity fund raiser and home brew competition is to take place on May 31 at Council Rock Brewery. There will be ten competition brews, and now have an eleventh as Mohawk brew club contact Wes after the meeting and asked if they could enter a beverage for the event and they were gladly accepted as an additional entry. The winner of the HOPS for Hounds pre-tasting by the HOPS club members will win the coveted championship beer paddle and the winner of the public vote will be honored by having their beer brewed at Council Rock and be part of their beer menu for sale to the public.
- HOPS is going to the TAP NY brew festival on Sunday April 26. We have joined the Binghamton Brewery group as they have a bus and needed some addition people to share the costs. Tickets can be purchased and bingbrew.com and the bus will be picking us up in Oneonta at the Price Chopper parking lot about 10:30 on Sunday morning.
- The educational spiked beer of the night was a tainted Miller Lite with phenolic/medicinal/band aid/plastic flavors that would be the result of incorrect pH levels, incorrect temperatures, or not properly cleaned equipment.
- Rhizomes for growing your own hops were discussed and it was mentioned that Adventures in Home Brewing is a good source for rhizomes.
- There were many interesting beers samples this meeting including:
- Mike’s mystery caramel beer
- Council Rock’s Belgian Single with La Chouffe yeast
- Council Rock’s Walaroo summer brew
- Pear cider with 50/50 water/sap mixture
- Sampling from Trinity Brewing
- The May meeting will be on Saturday, May 16 at 1:00 at Andrew’s home at 115 Pleasant Meadows Road, Cooperstown. More details are to follow.
