October Meeting Recap

Iron Kettle
Held this past Saturday at Hoster Brewing Co.
13 Black is Beautiful kits were brewed.
The plan is to (tentatively) judge them at an in-person December club meeting.
See Facebook for multiple participants photo uploads.

Barrel Project
Current beer is an Imperial Stout and the upcoming beer is an English Barleywine. The barrel will be emptied out the first beer and refilled with the next on Nov 21.

Learn To Homebrew Day
Nov 7 at Nocterra Brewing starting at 9am.
SODZ, DOH and HOPs clubs all participating.
Participants get up to 10lbs base malt, a California ale yeast pitch, and ready-to-use mash water.
All participants are encouraged to bring a beer-curious, non-brewer along to the event.
See the SODZ Facebook group for the event page and to RSVP.

Angelo/Barley’s and Mike/Lineage
We are encouraged to tag and like your local breweries to help generate social media traffic. Also, both of those breweries are happy to sell their beer in kegs or sell you beer that they fill into your own homebrew kegs. Contact them to arrange/ask questions.

Club Social Media Position
The club is exploring adding an additional position to more thoroughly use social media. Contact a board member if you’re interested.

Brewer Of The Year
We are still exploring how to conduct the Brewer of the Year competition.

December Meeting
We are attempting to hold our December meeting in person. We are currently looking for a location that can accommodate us with sufficient separation for a group our size. If you have any ideas, please contact a board member

New Member
Sandy Hugill introduced herself to the group.

Mead Talk
Richard Sheppard gave a mead talk and covered his background, history of mead, styles, honey varieties, homebrewing tips, a recipe, judging tips, example scoresheets and references.

The link to his PowerPoint presentation is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Qah6ByCSbvhzJhk2msU-6pacWue-tR1h7HyUNO_Psi8/edit?usp=drivesdk