
Join us in person or online as we discuss Lagers: history, differences from Ales, how to make, and lots of commercial and homebrew tasting.
Zoom Links available via Facebook or google group.
Indiana's Oldest Homebrew Club
Join us in person or online as we discuss Lagers: history, differences from Ales, how to make, and lots of commercial and homebrew tasting.
Zoom Links available via Facebook or google group.
Tuesday June 7th, 2022 at 6pm at Lafayette Brewing Company (2nd floor)
Join us this month at LBC to learn about English Bitters
Members:I just wanted to remind everyone that this Sunday, May 22, from 11-5 is Parilla! There will be a number of dishes coming off of the grills starting about 11:30. Bacon wrapped pickles, shrimp tacos, ribs, salmon, and other grilled dishes await you. And sharing home brewed and commercial beers too. We hope to see you then.
Slainte,Lloyd
p.s. Message for address is you need it
In time for America’s birthday, our next homebrew bottle share and competition will be all about American ales. Specifically, BJCP categories 18 (American Blond Ale, American Pale Ale) and 19 (American Amber Ale, California Common, American Brown Ale). To register, please fill out this form (https://forms.gle/RqFnYru5FV2DwWan6) This time we are waiving any entrance fee. There is no limit to the number of entries you can submit.
You are required to provide at least 32 oz of beer for judging. This could be either via bottles, cans or growlers. If you know you are unable to attend the event, you will need to make arrangements to drop your beer(s) off beforehand. Brewers are encouraged to bring friends to the event. Everyone who attends will get a poker chip to vote for their favorite beer. Guests’ votes are worth one point and brewers’ votes are worth three points with brewers being disallowed from voting for their own beer. The winner will receive a Great Fermentations gift card. Congratulations again to Chris Hunter for winning our previous competition and helping choose this category. Please reach out if you have any questions. Cheers!
Our featured speak for the meeting was Ted Rimstidt, speaking on Yeast Wrangling (link to slide deck below). We also went over upcoming events (linked below) and Upcoming meeting/festivals (also linked below).
Events:
5/8/2022: Big Brew Day – Ted
5/22/2022: Parilla @ Lloyd’s
Homebrew Con 6/23-6/25, Pittsburgh PA
Indiana Brewers Cup 7/9/2022
TBD: Brewery Bus Crawl (Lloyd) 1 hr radius
Meetings:
6/7: English Bitters – Lloyd
7/5: Lagers – Todd/Mark
Festivals:
8/6 Brews Cruise-Tom
8/27 Beers Across the Wabash-Harrod
9/10 Hops and Coasters-Todd
9/24 Broktoberfest-Ted
10/8 Homebrew Palooza-Todd
11/12 Indy Brew Battle-Todd
Fundraiser for Tippecanoe Arts Federation
Tonight’s meeting has a special guest, Brad Knapp of KnappTronix Brewing. Brad is a Process Manager by day, but a brewer by lifestyle.
Brad’s favorite beer style is New England IPA.
Thanks to Tom, Michael, Nick and Linda for manning the THC booth
The THC Holiday party was a fun affair:
Plenty of conversations:
Thanks you for everyone attending.
Our THC Holiday party will be on January 18th, from 6 p.m. to 9 pm. upstairs at LBC. Appetizers will be provided by LBC.
Bring beers to share as we do in the open tasting part of our regular meetings.
This year, we have a fair amount of extra hops and malt, so some door prizes will be awarded. And of course, we will have the bottle exchange. This is how it works:
1.) Bring up to 4 (12 oz). bottles of your homebrewed creations. You can bring larger bottles, but you may end up exchanging your bomber for a 12 oz. bottle.
2.)For each bottle you will get a ticket.
3.) When one of your ticket numbers is called, you can go up and select a bottle of one of the beverages on the table.This is a great way to try other styles, and the products of other brewers, and a THC tradition.
We hope to see you there.