The SODZ swap meet returns for a great chance to do some spring cleaning, or acquire more equipment. The swap meet is a garage sale/swap style gathering where you can bring equipment you no longer need and trade or sell it to someone that does.

When: Saturday May 23rd, 10am-2pm, rain or shine.
Where: Actual Brewing Company, 655 N. James Rd. Columbus, OH. 43229

If you are bringing equipment to swap or sell, try to bring a folding table too. If you don’t have equipment, come anyways and find something you never knew you needed!

SODZ will be grilling up burgers and dogs, please bring a side to share. ABC is homebrew friendly if you want to share.

You can park in the front, or around the back by the dock doors for easy unloading. Please note that the ABC taproom is open from 12pm-5pm, so please respect their space and customers, and purchase a few great pints as well to thank them!

Sign up below if you are coming so we know how much food to bring.

Please note that SODZ does not mediate disputes over transactions or refunds. Mike Beargie will be at the May 11th, 2015 SODZ meeting to answer any questions

When

Monday, April 20th 2015 7pm

Where

Lineage Brewing
2971 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43202

Food

No Food. Since the kitchen is closed Lineage is allowing outside food.
Food places close to Lineage:

• O’Reillys – It’s a bar but it has pretty good Burgers.
• Hound Dogs – Greasy delicious pizza.
• Aladdin’s – Mediterranean food.
• Lavash – Mediterranean food.
• Local Cantina – Cheap tacos.
• Gatto’s Pizza – Pizza place across the street.
• Harvest – Pizza, sandwiches, awesome food.
• Acre – Tasty healthy food. A lot like Northstar but cheaper.
• Northstar – Further north by Henderson on High St. but delicious.
• The Crest
• La Patrona – Mexican Food like El Vaquero.
• Lucky Dragon – Chinese place.

Agenda

• Officer Report
• Lineage Tour and Talk

Club Competition

Hopapalooza. Any beer over 40 IBUs.

The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate.

Can’t see this form? Click here!

When

Saturday June 8th
9am

Where

Dan France’s House
Hilliard

Address will be emailed to those who signup.

What

If you’ve seen the Iron Chef, then you understand the premise: you will be given a special, secret ingredient that you must use, but how you use it is up to you. Each team will be given the same ingredients kit to review, decide on a style, formulate a recipe, and brew the beer. You need not use all ingredients but MUST use the special ingredient and be sure to showcase it.

Brewers will need to arrive a little before 9am to get set up. At 9am, kits will be passed out and you can start formulating a recipe based on your ingredients. If your team is brewing a 10 gallon batch then be sure to tell the Iron Kettle organizers (Vic Gonzales/Dan France) so that they can be sure to have two kits for you.

Before brewing, each team must give a recipe sheet to the organizers. On it you will name your style, ingredients, hop schedule and any special notes. If you are splitting your batch and using different yeasts and/or dry hopping, list your intent for each of the beers in the notes. If you elect to deviate from your recipe while brewing, see the organizers to update your sheet. Brewers generally will take some time to review their ingredients and submit their recipes with the expectation that brewing will start by 10 or 11am.

This is a fun event to do in teams of two or more brewers. It’s also a chance for a brewer to introduce the hobby to someone who has shown interest in homebrewing.

Last of all rules are subject to change so don’t surprised if someone moved your cheese.

Beers will be judged at the summer picnic for bragging rights.

Kits

The kits will be all grain kits (no extract) and will include enough malt, hops and special ingredient to make a 5 gallon batch.

Yeast

Please bring 2 yeast strains for each kit. If you are brewing with a partner you can have up to 2 kits and 4 yeast strains. If a team is brewing 10 gallons and will divide the beer into two fermenters, which then will be taken home to ferment separately, each brewer is permitted (but not obligated) to use independent yeast strains. This may lead to some discussion on the team regarding what to brew based upon what the two members brought, but each of the brewers must state what yeast strain will be used prior to brewing. You are not required to pitch the yeast on-site, but be honest about what strain you will use at home. You may bring (and use) O2 or a fish pump for aeration.

Water

Do not bring your own water.

You will receive Hilliard water is on the soft side of city waters (Alkalinity of ~54 mo/L).

Do not bring your own water.

Do not bring your own water.

What You Bring

Anything you need to brew. If you brew outside with a burner at your house then you’ll probably need to bring all that plus a table of some sort to drain your mash tun/kettle.

The gear you would need includes but isn’t limited to:

• Burner
• Kettle
• Mash Tun
• Hot Liquor Tun
• Propane Tank
• Spoons, buckets, bags
• Fermentation Vessel (Carboy/Bucket)
• Star San/PBW
• Gloves
• Refractometer/Hydrometer/Graduated Cylinder
• Yeast (up to two strains per kit)
• Aquarium Pump/Oxygen Stone/Oxygen
• Hoses/Splitters for Chilling.
• Grain mill.
• …

What We Provide

• A kit that brews a 5 gallon batch. Kit includes the malt, hops and special ingredient.
• Water. Don’t bring your own water. If you bring it we will dump it out in front of you.
• Pre-Chiller Setup

What is Verboten

• Your own water. See a pattern?
• Any ingredients other than what comes in the kit. This includes fining agents, and elements to alter water chemistry.

Signup

Do you have equipment that’s gathering dust? Perhaps leftover parts from a brewery project that never took off? Are you looking to upgrade your own equipment or even start brewing yourself? Come on down to the SODZ swap meet for the opportunity to spring clean your setup!

All SODZ members and non-members are welcome (and encouraged) to attend!

Date/Time: Saturday March 30th, 2-5pm
Location: Actual Brewing Company (directions follow)
Beer: ABC will be providing some beer to sample, everyone is encouraged to bring their creations to share as well.
Food: SODZ will be providing some grilled up items, please bring a side to share.

Rules: Please fill out the RSVP form if you are attending, regardless of if you are bringing equipment. Please clean all equipment thoroughly before bringing it (this is taking place inside of an active brewery). Everything must be removed immediately from premises after the event. SODZ takes no responsibility for any monetary transactions, trading is encouraged. Please bring a folding table if you’ve got it for your equipment.

RSVP: Please fill out the following RSVP form:
http://goo.gl/2umHA

Questions? Contact Mike Beargie at generation_otaku@yahoo.com | 614-370-3577 or Don Croucher at croucherd@sbcglobal.net | 614-309-9173

Directions to Actual Brewing Company:
http://www.actualbrewing.com/
655 N. James Rd
Columbus, Ohio 43219

Located off Stelzer road (access Stelzer southbound from 670/airport exits, or via 70/james road exit northbound) Turn east onto 7th ave. Turn left into the lot with the “airport plaza” sign. ABC is in the left hand of the two buildings. We may have dock door access from the back for larger equipment.

The Columbus AleFest will be held at the Aladdin Temple (3850 Stelzer Road
Columbus, OH 43219), on Saturday, Feb. 2nd, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.   We have been asked to provide at least 4 people to assist with set-up, 50 people to pour during the event, and at least 8 people to assist with clean-up at the close of the event. Those who can setup need to plan to be there by 12:30pm and those willing to tear down should expect to be there till 7-8pm.  We can take more for each assignment, but we are asked to provide at least this many volunteers.  SODZ will benefit from the event, if we meet the requested staffing levels. Last year we did not, so this matters.

Anyone who has ever worked this event knows how much fun it is. SODZ will also have a table available to promote the club, if anyone would like to volunteer for that.

Please send questions to my personal email address, croucherd@sbcglobal.net, not to the SODZ group site. If you have any questions.

I want to formally announce volunteer registration for the Columbus Winter Beerfest, to be held at the Columbus convention Center on Friday, Jan.11th, and Saturday, Jan. 12th.

SODZ has once again been tasked to register volunteers for the event. The event will kick off each night at 6:30 PM for the VIP session, followed by the general session from 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM. Volunteers should check in starting at 5:00 PM at the volunteer registration adjacent to the entrance to the event. Volunteers will be given an event T-shirt, a meal voucher, and parking reimbursement up to $8.  This will be the largest event held to date, and I will need every SODZ member to consider working at this event. As in the past, SODZ will benefit directly from our efforts. You do not need to be a SODZ member, and family and friends can also volunteer.

If you have any questions, you can direct them to me at croucherd@sbcglobal.net. This event will need 200 volunteers, so check your calendar, and register soon. I need to have the final list of volunteers by Jan. 5th, so please register as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you.

Don Croucher
Volunteer Coordinator
for SODZ