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Tuesday:  March 2nd 2010, 7pm;  April 6th 2010, 7pm

Monthly club meetings held UPSTAIRS at:
The Happy Gnome
498 Selby Ave
St Paul, MN 55102-1727

 
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December Meeting Recap

posted Dec 2, 2009 8:41 AM by Jeff Halvorson
There were lots of new faces at tonight's meeting. 

Thanks to Todd the plumber for the information about ventilating a basement area for brewing indoors. Check the link under resources at left.

Kristen showed us the difference between a kegged and bottle conditioned Belgium style beer. If you are bottle conditioning use Danstar Nottingham yeast, "it drops like a rock" (quote from Eric).  

So now we know that heather in a beer does not make it a Scottish ale! There was no heather in Kris's Scottish beers; it was an example of a making three beers from one mash, a method called gyling or parti-gyling.  
 60/-, 70/-, 80/- or 90/- are not styles of beer, the shilling " /-" value was a reference to the wholesale price of a 54 gallon hogshead of beer. There more information about Shilling beers and recipes from Kristen at Ron Pattinson's blog.