Club Meeting - January 17, 2017 7:00 PM

[CurtisG]

Club Meeting – January 17th at Windsor Homebrew Supply – Costa Mesa 7:00 pm

Happy New Year!

The January 2017 meeting will be held at Windsor Homebrew Supply

Located at:
743 Baker St
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Windsor Homebrewing is a fantastic homebrew shop. If you haven't had time to visit it yet this will be a great opportunity to check it out! If you have homebrew you wish to share or get feedback on, please bring that with you.

Unfortunately Windsor does not have food but Barley forge brewing and Gunwhale ales are across the street and a few members usually meet up before hand to grab a beer and a bite. I would also recommend bringing a chair.

Meetings are open to all Brewcommune forum members (paid and non-paid). If you are new to Brewcommune, please come out and introduce yourself.


Please post a reply here if you plan on attending!

[Megastout]

Yes, please bring a chair. will do a blind tasting of white and black IPA samples.
As a note, Yesterday, brewed an American version of a south of the border Corn Beer. Vigorously fermenting now. Used a different technique of first wort hopping during sparge with only a 30 minute boil and whirlpool during cool down. Actual brew time was reduced to 3.5 hours. The jury is still out.

[CurtisG]

Bumping this for visibility.

[lexuschris]

Looks like I will be able to make this meeting!

I just kegged a Sedona hopped Pale Ale, and it came out very clean. I'll bring a growler or two to share, and I plan on grabbing a panini at BarleyForge prior.

Looking forward to a great year!
--LexusChris

[Megastout]

Talked to Scott when i was at Windsor today and he said he has 32 chairs, so I don't think we need to bring any.
I have small taster cups for the blind tasting portion of the style presentation.

[Justin H]

I will be there. I always enjoy meetings at Windsor.
...two birds, as they say.

[BrewMasterBrad]

I will be there as well with a beer for the style presentation.

I will probably get there a little early to do some shopping at Windsor and grab a bite at Barley Forge and a pint or two at Gunwhale.

[Blackcomb]

Have a few houses to look at and then should be on my way down there. Might be late, depending on what we find.

[WillL]

I'll be there. Looking forward to it!

[windsorhomebrewsupplyco]

Sorry for the late post on this. Looking forward to having everyone. I do have chairs and plenty of taster cups. If anyone needed grains, recipes etc feel free to email me today and I can have everything ready for pickup when you get here this evening. scott@windsorhomebrewsupply.com
See you tonight!

Cheers,
Scott

[Justin H]

Great meeting again. Brad thanks for brewing a black IPA for the style presentation. It was hands down the best beer of the flight.

[indianajns]

Notes BrewCommune Meeting 1/17/17 - Windsor Homebrew


Competitions. For a list of current competitions check out this link on the forum: http://www.brewcommune.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7

National Homebrew Competition is upon us. ENTER!!!!
AHA National Homebrew Competition First Round Important Dates & Deadlines (
Thanks to Justin for this information)

AHA Membership Update/Email Subscription January 30, 2017
Application Window January 30 – February 5, 2017
Payment Period February 8 – February 15, 2017
First Round Shipping Window February 27 – March 8, 2017
First Round Judging March 17 – April 23, 2017*

This years Christmas party was a great success in a beautiful location. Thanks to Chris for opening up his beautiful home to the club.

New club officers:
Justin/Tim - Style guidelines
Greg - Secretary

Club dues are do in January $20. You can pay online by clicking this link:
http://www.brewcommune.com/store.html#! ... ort=normal


Tim’s style guideline presentation was on white and black IPAa’s. We performed blind tastings on the 4 whits and 4 black IPA’s. One of the white IPA’s was an English IPA Tim made. One pf the black IPA’s was a beer Brad made.

Brad, Sam and Chris made and shared a Pale Ale produced with hops they picked up in Sedona Arizona.

Other beers brought for participants to try and comment:

Calvin: Honey Blonde and Belgian Golden Strong
Will: Baltic Porter
Greg: Doppelbock and Russian Imperial Stout

Special Huge Thank You to Scott for opening up his store and staying late so we could have our meeting at Windsor.

I've emailed Tim for his notes on the style presentation he put together. When I receive that I will append to these notes.

[BrewMasterBrad]

Great notes Greg.

Thanks Scott for hosting again! Very much appreciated.

I don't recall discussing the February club brew day. Has anyone volunteered yet?