Febuary Club Meeting

[Megastout]

Greetings!

The February 2020 meeting will be held at Taps Brewery & Tap Room
Thursday, February 20th at 7:00 PM.

Address:
15501 Red Hill Ave.
Tustin, California 92780

Off-Month Meetings have no official business. It is more of a social gathering to drink, talk and share beer, and meet up with members. Please bring your homebrew if you would like to get some feedback.

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

DT

[ctninh]

Yay

[CurtisG]

I'll be there with my competition beer!

[Megastout]

Don't miss the meeting, I have 2 unusual beers

[CurtisG]

Don't miss the meeting, I have 2 unusual beers

What a coincidence, I have ONE usual beer.

[Megastout]

Following feedback with regards to the blueberry mead: too listerine in color although great looking, too alcohol hot, needing more blueberry flavor, not sweet enough for balance
This morning I uncapped 48 bottles, put contents in the bottling bucket, cleaned the bottles, and proceeded to alterations as per taste: put in an additional 4 lbs of clover honey, 4 ounces of blueberry extract, 1 oz of red food coloring.
Resuts: quite pleased, the addition of the red coloring mixed with the former addition of the blue brought the color into a nice blueberry purple! The addition of the honey toned down the alcohol burn and added sweetness for balance, and the blueberry extract upped the blueberry flavor.
I think the manipulation of the variables is successful.
Will bring the execution to the next meeting for your post evaluation.
It has gained a new life!

[jward]

The ability to rework mead through blending and additions is one of the more interesting aspects of the endeavor.

[maltbarley]

1 oz of food coloring sounds like a lot. I would suggest using it very sparingly.