As you heard at the September meeting Richard Sheppard has setup a private tour with Columbus Brew Adventures.

What

A tour of 3 breweries, Actual, Wolf’s Ridge and either North High or Zauber for tastings and plenty of time for Q&A.  The tour has a max capacity of 14 people and needs at least 8 people to signup a week before the tour otherwise it will be canceled.

When

Saturday October 5th

9:00am – 12:30pm.  Make sure you get there 10 minutes before to guarantee the tour starts on time.

Where

Meet the van at:

1160 Hunter Ave
Columbus, OH 43201
United States

Cost

Cost is $60/person and includes guide, transportation, beer tasting, snack and gratuity.

Register

You can register by following these directions:

1. Go here http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/435088
2. Select the day Saturday October 5th from the drop down.
3. Click the link Enter a Password or Discount Code.
4. Enter sodz in the Password or Discount Code text field.
5. Click Show Available Tickets button.
6. Choose the number of tickets you want, fill out any other information, etc, etc.

It’s the beginning of a new SODZ year, and with that comes the September meeting.

When

Monday, September 16 2013
7pm

Where

Seventh Son Brewery
1101 N 4th St
Columbus, OH 43201

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Food

Be sure to eat before you come as Seventh Son doesn’t have food.

Agenda

Along with the normal club business, we’ll get to hear from these folks:

• Gautam Bagchi will be talking about our new club competition.
• Bethia Wolf and Jim Ellison will be talking about their Brew Adventures tours.
• The owner(s)/brewer(s) from Seventh Son will be talking about breweries/brewing beer and stuff.

Club Competition

The first in a series of our new club competition starts at this meeting. To rehash what Gautam already sent out, the competition is limited to members in good standing. Each member can submit one entry that can be in any BJCP category. A minimum of 24oz (2 12 oz bottles, 1 bomber 22-24 oz bottle or 1 growler) is required to do the judging. The competition is limited to 16 entries and the winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to a local homebrew shop. This members-only competition is also part of our larger “Brewer of the Year” competition where members will receive points for placing beers in the members-only competitions, larger club competitions (Beer for Boobs and British Beer Festival), Lucci Cup and Iron Kettle. The points will be tracked on our website so that you can see where you stand compared to other brewers and at the end of the year the brewer with the most points will receive another gift certificate and the title of “Brewer of the Year”.

September Club Competition is now closed.

Work Shirts

If you ordered a SODZ work shirt I will have the box at the meeting.

I just wanted to let everyone know about several competitions coming up this fall held by various Ohio clubs:

All of these events needs volunteers to be succesful.  We get a lot of help from each of these clubs for our events, so I’d encourage EVERYone to look at your calendar and see if you can help as a judge or steward at one of these events.  First time judges are always welcome.  You will have a good time.

Happy brewing!

Bill

It’s getting to be about that time to break forth the rhythm, the rhyme and the Summer Picnic.

Who is Invited?

Anyone who is a paid member and their immediate family (Spouse and children).

When

France’s Farm
Saturday, July 27th 2pm – Sunday July 28th 1pm

If you plan to stay over night be sure you bring a tent or are ok sleeping in your car. The house is the residence of Dan’s Uncle and we need to respect his privacy.

Where

6934 Hillcrest Rd
St. Louisville OH 43071

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France’s Folksy Directions

1. Just basically take 161 East to 13 North (at newark, go north).
2. Take that for about 8 miles into Saint Louisville, turn right at Loches Rd.
3. Turn right at Horns Hill Rd after 0.4 mi.
4. Go left onto Hillcrest Rd 1.5 mi which is just past a little bridge. Hillcrest is a gravel road you will go straight for a bit, there will be a farm house on your right.
5. When you come to a hairpin turn up to the left into the woods, turn left here. If you go straight, you will go into a lady’s driveway 🙂
6. You go through the woods, down a hill, over a bridge, up a hill, when you come out of the woods there will be a sectional home on your right, and a split rail fence on your left.
7. Your destination is straight ahead through the gate, do not follow the road to the right.

What to Bring

The club will provide a main course, you will provide a side/desert and any beer you want to share. The location is on 255 of acres that includes paths, wooded areas a pond and copious amounts of space to hang out. It’s suggested that you bring any folding chairs, pop up shelters and anything else you require if you are a person who enjoys to sit outside, not on the ground and not in direct sun. If you choose to stay the night there will be a bonfire and much more socializing. In the morning we will do some cleanup and head home.

Iron Kettle Beers

Those who brewed beer at Iron Kettle will be bringing their beer to share and be judged. If you were at Iron Kettle an can’t make it then you will need to make arrangements to have someone else bring your beer.

Other

I can’t stress this enough but if you even think you might be staying the night bring a tent or have the expectation that you will be sleeping in your car. What about bathrooms you may be wondering? There are bathrooms a little off from the house with with all the wonderful flowing water your heart could desire.

I wanted to throw out a big thank you to Dan and Amanda for hosting Iron Kettle again. I also want to thank Vic and Dan for organizing the event, coming up with the recipe and secret ingredient for this years Iron Kettle. We had 7 brewers, 2 dogs, one secret ingredient (oysters!) and a damn good time.

Those who brewed at Iron Kettle will be bringing their beers to the summer picnic where they will be judged to see who will be this years Iron King. To the brewers who came out, remember you MUST bring your beer to the summer picnic regardless of how “interesting” it came out.

Pictures from the event can be found below:

Iron Kettle Pictures

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

April 19th – April 21st we will be hosting the first round judging for NHC at Weasel Boy.  We still need volunteers to be stewards, judges, cellar masters/monkeys, etc, etc.

If you have sometime and would like to volunteer please go to this page and sign up.

Register!

Registration

Location

126 Muskingum Ave
Zanesville, OH 43701

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However much time you can give is appreciated.  If you can only help out Friday night that’s great! Friday and Saturday?  Even better.