This is your regular monthly reminder that the next Bristol Craft Brewers meeting is coming up this Thursday 3/5/2012, 8pm at the Cornubia.
On the agenda this month:
Introductions
Bulk orders
Update on events in May
Presentation of accounts – Roger Parry
Decision on Treasurer and Secretary for next 12 months
AOB
Samples / tastings
Please note that there will be no technical talk this month. As always, if there is something you would like added to the agenda, please let me know.
MapperMatt wrote:
Please note that there will be no technical talk this month. As always, if there is something you would like added to the agenda, please let me know.
Better make sure we all bring plenty of beer this month then :-)
Burns stuff. And makes beer. Usually not at the same time.
I will be there, but late this time - Rachel doesn't get home until 8.30ish and then I can leg it into town.
Looking forward to it! Well Matt, If the beer tastes and smells as good as the spent grain, then I can't wait ; ) Every time I feed the chickens I crave a pint!
FV1: EMPTY FV2: EMPTY Conditioning: NOWT Drinking:Countdown Conundrum - Best Bitter; Haka! The Herald - Pacific IPA Planning: San Francisco 4.9er - California Common; Event Horizon - Robust Porter; Cold Dead Hand - American IPA
Good beers and good chat yo. Stand out beers: Ali's Black Funk and most of all Steve W's oak aged, smoked stout. Bottle the lot now and keep it as it is I say!
I will bottle some this week and leave some for another week then bottle it.
I must say I am surprised how fast the wood ageing made an effect on flavour, I thought it would take far longer.
All in all a successful experiment!
The craft beer revolution will not be sanitised! (Apologies to Gil Scott-Heron)
I really liked the oak character in it. Surface area of wood in contact to the beer is the lesson from the experiment. I have some oak in cubes, which has less surface area
Not sure if there's a UK supplier, despite Muntons being a UK company, but widely available in the US.
Ali
BJCP National Judge
BJCP Assistant Regional Director (North-East/Europe)
American Homebrewers' Association International Subcommittee
Organizer, National Homebrew Competition
CBA UK Competition and Training Coordinator
One of the selfish reasons I come to BCB is to keep sampling beers outside the limited range I usually go for in the hope I'll eventually acquire the taste.
I must say Steve, with your stout I finally got that wow factor. Thanks.
When a man is tired of beer, he is tired of life; for there is in beer all that life can afford
