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Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The May meeting will be hosted by Steve Krebs, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, May 12. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Pilsner, 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 Josh Budde, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, April 8. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Wood-aged beer, the style of the month. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The March meeting will be hosted by Rolf Wucherer, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, March 11. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Bock beer, the style of the month. We will have a brewing equipment “raffle” to benefit the HBD, which besides being a great resource of homebrewing information, hosts our email list. One of the available items will be the beer crate that we got from CWCrates for evaluation. If you have unused or very lightly used brewing items to contribute, please bring them. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The February meeting will be hosted by Phil Wilcox at the soon-to-be-open JaXon Beer Co in Jackson, MI, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, February 11. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Belgian and French Ales, the style of the month. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The January meeting will be hosted by Randy deBeauclair, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, January 14. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features English Pale Ale, the style of the month. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The MONTH meeting will be hosted by Rolf Wucherer, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, December 10. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features India Pale Ale, the style of the month. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The November meeting will be hosted by Crispy Frey, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, November 12. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Porter and Stout, the styles of the month. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The October meeting will be hosted by Steve Krebs, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, October 8. Read more about the 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. This post provides an update on the 2010 sour wine barrel project initially described here: http://aabg.org/2010/04/26/aabg-sour-wine-barrel-initial-fill/ On 8/21 a group of AABG brewers emptied the saison from the barrel, distributing to the ten brewers who had originally contributed. Final gravity was measured at 1.007, and tasting showed a fairly tart and dry beverage with plenty of complexity including oak, floral, and sweaty characters– a nice example of a barrel-aged beer. The barrel was rinsed with boiled water a few times to remove sediment, and then refilled with Flanders Red Grand Cru brewed according to the recipe below developed by Jeff Rankert: 42% Pale malt (2-row) 2L 14 IBU Kent Goldings at 60 min Twelve 5-gallon batches were brought to my place (Aron Butler) after varying amounts of time in the secondary fermenter, ranging from a few days to a few weeks. Each beer was tasted, notes made, and then run into the barrel. Linked here is a PDF showing the names of the participants, gravities of the batches if available, and some tasting notes for each. PDF of spreadsheet Gravity measured after all beers were added was approximately 1.018. Airlock activity was fairly vigorous for the first couple of weeks, and has now (9/22) subsided into a rhythm of a bubble every few minutes. Aging period for this beer is tentatively a year before any significant withdrawals will be made. Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings. The September meeting will be hosted by Jeff Renner, starting at 7:30PM on Friday, September 10. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Oktoberfest, the style of the month. |
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