There were a huge amount of beers last night, 29 in total, brought by 12 club members. It took a while to get through all the beers, but thankfully Michael kept us full by providing some chicken posole. David G brought some hand-me-down hops from Second Street and gave those out after the meeting. Corey leaving the meeting with 22lb of hops was quite the sight!
Some topics we covered at the meeting included:
Next Social Meetup – We’ll have our next social meetup on Wednesday December 6th around 6pm at the new Boxcar location (133 West Water Street, in the old Blue Corn location near downtown).
Upcoming Meetings – As the nights are getting longer and colder, I want to find a semi-permanent location to host the club meetings since it’s harder to move around to different club members houses since we can’t really use outdoor spaces. If anyone has any outside the box locations they think might be good for meeting, please see if it’s a possibility they’ll host the club! I’m still waiting to see if SFBC will let us use the party room for December and January, but any ideas are welcome.
Next Club Competition – We’ll plan on having our next club competition in February 2024 (note: we had previously said January, but we’re moving it to February) and the style will be lower ABV Brittish beers – BJCP 2021 categories Ordinary Bitter (11A), Best Bitter (11B), or Dark Mild (13A)
Whisky tasting – We’re going to plan on having a whisky tasting in early February. We’ll have more details as the time gets closer, but this should be a fun evening to sample various whisky styles!
Saison Competition – We may lean toward doing a Saison competition for our May or June meeting and see if we can get some pro brewers who specialize in Farmhouse or Saisons to act as expert judges.
Custom Club AHA Renewal
I signed us up for the AHA referral program which gives our club a $5 kickback whenever someone joins or renews their membership through our custom link and enters SDCCB as the code. If you’ve let your membership lapse or haven’t signed up before, I’d encourage you to do so. You can find our custom URL here: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/support-the-aha/?promo=Sangre-de-Cristo-Craft-Brewers (note: you will still need to enter SDCCB as the code when you’re at that point in the sign up process).
The full list of beers brought to the meeting were:
- Aaron – Kolsch by Sunner
- Ben: Real British Accent (Ordinary bitter), Hop tea, Battlesnakes and Slap & Tickle by Brewery X, Circular by Monkish, Celebration by Sierra Nevada
- Brandon O: 2022 Cider, Wee Heavy
- Corey T: Barrel Aged Hazelnut Imperial Stout (2018) by Untitled Art / Mikerphone, Winter Solstice 2023 by Anderson Valley, Kokua by Ex Novo
- David G: Raspberry Tart and Belgian Red by New Glarus
- Eric H: Chocolate Honey Porter, Baltic Porter, Central Coast Saison by Libertine
- Johann: Boudicca’s Best British Bitter, Rye Brown Ale
- Ken: Coffee Porter
- Lorrey: Oktoberfest, Funky Blender Farmhouse Ale by Casey
- Michael James: unloved Galaxy IPA, Truth by Rhinegeist, Gadget by Urban Artifact
- Mike D: Fall Flicker (Baltic Porter – lager variant), Super Nebula – Breakfast with Roses – 2019 by Block 15
- Tom: Double Ringer Ale by Upper Hand (Bell’s), Barbarian Haze IPA by Three Floyds
(Note: commercial beers are italicized).
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