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Next Club Meetings

The next club meeting will be:

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

 

Club Meetings

Meeting Guidlines

We conduct our meetings on the first Tuesday of each month (usually) upstairs at Happy Gnome at 7pm.

For newcomers: rules and guidelines for the meeting: Happy Gnome allows us to meet in their upstairs space as long as we're good citizens. Buy a beer or two and tip your servers. Feel free to bring your homebrew for evaluation and sharing. Just keep it discreet until we're upstairs. Please no commercial beers. 

If you want comments on your brews, best to bring 2 bottles, and label them with a sticker or masking tape. This works best if you bring the recipe specifics you used, and tasting notes.

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December 2009

posted Dec 3, 2009 8:50 PM by Kevin Cotter

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. 

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