We had a fantastic September meeting – lots of guests since we had Master Cicerone Nicole Erny presenting! Here’s what you missed if you weren’t there…
New Sudzers T-Shirts are here! $20/Men’s, $25/Women’s (this is at cost!)
NCHF Planning – members going to NCHF had a quick planning session with Mike Conant, our NCHF Chair this year. If you weren’t at the meeting and haven’t seen any of the emails this week and you ARE going to NCHF, email Mike (or Derek or myself) immediately so we can get you on the distribution list!
Third Thirsty Thursday – September 20th at Harry’s Hofbrau San Jose (390 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose); show up between 6 – 7 pm, leave whenever!
The summer party was a huge success – many thanks to Jim for loaning us the fun house and for Nick on taking excellent care of the fun house!
Plan on a fall club brew day later this year – making lots of the infamous Dark Matter Russian Imperial Stout again!
Nicole Erny, Master Cicerone gave a fantastic presentation to the group on “Focus on Flavor”. We all learned many interesting facts about palates, how to train your palate and how to develop a better vocabulary when describing beer, food, wine, etc. If you are an AHA member, you can login to the NHC conference site and view the same presentation materials Nicole showed us.
Homebrew Tasting: (due to the large group and length of the meeting, we did not use our rating system on the homebrews presented); you’ll also note a few entries from the Worts’ canned fruit challenge…
- Jim – Cherry Berlinerweiss
- Santiago – Gluten Free Saison, made with sorghum and brown rice syrups
- Chris Ringer – Apricalt, and Apricot-flavored northern German Alt beer
- Keith – Blackberry Schwarzbier
- Steve & Keith – Red Velvet Cake Ale 1.0, an ale made with a special cake recipe modified by Steve Casselman, trying to get that baked cake flavor into the beer; Version 2.0 is in secondary right now.
- Marcus – Night Man (fighter of Day Man), Oatmeal Stout
- Mike & Matt – Porter; 1st 10 gallon batch, 1st dark beer, 1st beer in kegerator, lots of 1st’s here!
- Morgan – Eviler Twin, More Beer Evil Twin kit, added American oak chips soaked in 2 oz. rye whiskey and Falconer’s Flight hops to make it “eviler”
- Jim & Jason – Blind Pig Clone; added oak chips in secondary; only 14 days old
- Derek – Cask aged American Barley Wine – boozy!
Reminder to homebrewers for future meetings – bring your recipe with you!
See you at Thirsty Thursday, NCHF or our October 5 meeting!