When

Saturday June 7th
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 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, it is on the soft side with an 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

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This years Big Brew is being hosted by the Columbus Brewing Company.  This event is not restricted to SODZ members and I encourage you to invite people who may be interested in the hobby.

Date

Saturday May 3rd
Wort will be available from 9am – 11am.
This is a hard deadline anyone who comes after 11am will not get wort.

Location

525 Short St,
Columbus, OH

The Columbus Half Marathon is happening on the same day so if you try to get to CBC using High St you will be less than happy. Please see the map below for an alternate route.

View Alternate Directions to CBC in a map.

What We Provide

1. Wort – CBC will be brewing wort for a Schwarzbier. The recipe can be found here.
2. Water for chilling.

What You Provide

You will need to bring everything else. This includes but is not limited to:

1. Hops
2. Kettle
3. Burner
4. Propane Tank
5. Wort Chiller
6. Hose Splitters – We should have some however having more is always better.
7. Folding Chair(s)
8. Pop Up Tent – If it rains you have two options:
   1. Get your wort and take it home to boil.
   2. Have a pop up tent and brew underneath.
9. Sanitizer
10. Food
11. Etc, etc

Anything you need to brew at home you will need to bring with the exception of equipment used to create your wort.

Food

This year you are on your own for food. If people have portable grills that are used at tailgating events you are welcome to bring them.

SODZ has decided to promote a fund-raiser for Pints For Prostates, by sponsoring the spring Maibock tapping at Gordon Biersch. The tapping event will be Thursday, April 17^th. The tapping will follow the usual format from Gordon Biersch, running from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM, with a special tapping from their keg at 6:30 PM.

Pints for Prostates is a national grassroots organization that uses the universal language of beer to reach men with an important message about having regular health screenings and early detection by making appearances at beer events across the country. They also support the US TOO International Prostate Cancer Education and Support Network, as they support, educate and advocate for men with prostate cancer and their families. They also support the Prostate Conditions Education Council, which organizes free health screening clinics across the country.

The organization was founded by Rick Lyke in 2008, who is a beer writer and prostate cancer survivor. Pints for Prostates works with healthcare providers, organizations and suppliers, brewers, restaurants, retail stores, beer industry groups and other interested parties to bring the message of prostate health to men.

Gordon Biersch has supported Pints for Prostates in several of their brewpubs across the country, and they are very happy to see our local Gordon Biersch partner with SODZ to join in this promotion.
We plan to raise money by selling raffle tickets, having a 50-50 drawing, and having promotional materials available from Pints for Prostates at a special table. Gordon Biersch will also be contributing to this effort as well. A planning committee has been put together for the event. Tom Rees, Jeff Tayner and Geoff Towne have graciously offered their time to help plan the event. We will need the involvement of others during the event, and we are counting on every SODZ member to be a part of this special evening. Please consider bringing family members, and also potential new members.

Stewart Miller, the general manager of the Columbus Gordon Biersch, and Keith Jackson, brewmaster, are very excited about partnering with SODZ for this event. It will be up to us to make this Maibock tapping one of the biggest Gordon Biersch has ever hosted.

Don Croucher
For SODZ