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Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The MONTH meeting will be hosted by Steve Krebs, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, May 10. Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features extract beers, the style of the month. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The April meeting will be hosted by Geoff Billiu and Annie Zipser, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, April 12. Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Strong Ale, the style of the month. Read on for special parking information. Educational sessionInspired by this experiment, http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2013/03/dry-hopped-bud-light.html?m=1 Spencer will be “presenting” a set of 11 dry hopped beers at the April meeting, starting at 7PM. We have 2 cases of Wolverine Premium Lager. 4 bottles each are dry hopped with 11 hops, leaving 4 bottles plain for comparison. The hops are Citra, Crystal, Kent Goldings (UK), Amarillo, Cascade, Saaz (CZ), Galaxy (Aus), Hallertau Mittlefruh (Ger?), Vanguard, Centennial, and Nelson Sauvin (NZ). About 2 grams was placed in each bottle. The remaining 3/4 oz of each hop will be available for a donation to the club, as will about 100 O2 barrier bottle caps. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The MONTH meeting will be hosted by Adventures in Homebrewing, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, March 8. Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Barleywine, the style of the month. Educational sessionJeff Rankert will present “Brewing Water 101, the abridged version” from 7PM to 7:30, before the meeting. In more detail, this includes:
Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The February meeting will be hosted by Adventures in Homebrewing, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, February 8. Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features “UnSession Beers”, the style of the month. Pre-meeting education about Ann Arbor waterMolly Robinson (Ann Arbor’s Water Treatment Services Manager) will discuss Ann Arbor’s water, the treatment facility, and how the water changes from source to tap. Crispy contacted her and provided some background on the club, and mentioned the recent interest that members have expressed as to understanding the single most significant ingredient in our homemade fermentables. Along with the aforementioned source to tap discussion, Crispy suggested that members would also be interested in some key elements and minerals that can affect our brewing (sulfur and sodium being two). You can find the most current information on Ann Arbor’s water at Ann Arbor Water Treatment Services website, which includes the interesting document Water Quality Data for Aquarium Owners and Home Brewers. That document shows the variation of hardness and other minerals by month for the year 2011.
Molly also suggested that if we were interested, she could arrange a tour of the water treatment plant during some warmer weather. And while Molly indicated that she is a fan of better beer, she is not a brewer. So the presentation can go one of a couple of ways. Molly can speak with authority on what is coming out of the tap, and how it got to be the way the charts show it to be. So the presentation can just focus on that aspect. Then either as an immediate follow-up during her presentation, or perhaps at another meeting, we can discuss the ramifications that various elements and trace minerals have on our brewing output.
Jeff Rankert sent in some questions that he’s interested in:
Jeff has agreed with Crispy to talk more about the brewing ions and some of the spreadsheets one can use at the March meeting.
Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The MONTH meeting will be hosted by Adventures in Homebrewing, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, January 11. Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features “Un-session beers”, the style of the month. Barbara Wilson of Mindo Chocolates will be speaking to the club as the “Educational” component of our Friday meeting @ 7:00PM at Adventures in Homebrewing (our club house for the next three months) in Ann Arbor. With any luck, they might also be bringing samples . For those who wish to hear about this subject, do what you can to be there at 7:00 sharp (or a few minutes early). For those not interested in hearing about this topic, please respect our speakers until they are done (7:30ish) by keeping your nonrelated conversations quite. If you have a chocolate or Theobromine tea beer or mead that utilizes these, please bring it along to help demonstrate the possibilities! Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The December meeting will be hosted by Rolf Wucherer, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, December 14 Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Strong Ales, the style of the month. Susan Rankert took some photos during the Old Ale club-only competition judging. They are finally available here. You can also find them on the AABG Photo Albums menu (above).
Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The November meeting will be hosted by Adventures in Homebrewing, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, November 9. Read more about this month’s meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Strong Ales, the style of the month. |
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