Newsletters - August 2005
July Meeting Minutes
The July meeting of the First State Brewers was held at the home of Marty Drinan.
In attendance:
| Scott Bieber | Belgian Ale, Pilsner |
| Marty Drinan | Apricot Wheat, Weyerbacher Black Hole Porter, ?? Scotch Ale |
| Oliver Weatherbee | ? |
| Jeff Ramberg | ?? (German mini-keg) |
| John Biggins | Ciders |
| Garrett Sever | Little Brave India Red Ale |
| Luis Glick | 5 Year Chili Beer |
| Bob Lawless | |
* Garrett, Marty, and Oliver discussed upcoming bulk grain order from North Country Malt
* Jeff Ramberg tried out his new CO2 dispenser for mini-kegs.
The August meeting will be held at the home of Oliver Weatherbee
It will be held this Friday, August 19th at 7:30 pm
Food will be available. Dumplings, Philippino Lumpia (sort of like skinny egg roles), and probably Pancit Guisado (a noodle dish).
Recent Club Communications
From: Scott Bieber
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:22 PM
Subject: AHA Membership Drive
The American Homebrewer's Association is having a membership drive in Delaware at the Wilmington Riverfront Iron Hill location on Tuesday, August 23rd, 7 p.m. at 9 p.m.
Many local DE breweries are participating, and our club will have a table as well. It is an opportunity to renew or join for a very low price ($33) and receive a years worth of benefits including a subscription to Zymurgy magazine. You don't want to miss this! Click on the membership drive link for additional details.
http://www.beertown.org/email/aha/membership_drive/delaware.htm
Please let me know if you can attend!
Cheers,
Scott
From: GDSever
Subject: [First State Brewers' Blog] Arrival of goodness
Oliver placed our bulk grain order with North Country Malt Supply last week, and it is supposed to arrive today. In total we ordered something like 525+ lbs of grain and nearly 10 lbs of hops... between Marty, Oliver, and myself. I have a feeling that these all-grain brewers will be pretty set for grain for many months. Oliver leaves for vacation tomorrow, so the earliest we will start separating the order will be Sunday... although I expect early next week is more likely.
In addition I have a much smaller order from MoreBeer.com coming today with some silver ferrules to replace the brass ones on my kegerator tap handles, a thermometer for my 5 gallon kettle (I moved the previous one over to my 10 gallon kettle), and a few miscellaneous grain types that NCMS doesn't carry (Carafa, Victory).
Our American Pale Ale 10 gallon batch this past weekend went great, except for me not listening to my better judgment and topping up to 13.5 gallons at the beginning of the boil - As a result, we ended up with 9 gallons instead of 10 and the gravity was much higher than anticipated (1.059 instead of 1.052). I can't wait to try it - the 4 oz of late addition Simcoe hops really smelled fantastic as it fermented.
Coming up for me is a 5 gallon batch of Imperial Stout, 10 gallons of Nut Brown, and probably 10 gallons of Scottish 70 shilling... But I don't know what the timing of them will be.
From: Garrett Sever
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 12:07 PM
To: Scott Bieber
Subject: Wort's Hoppening - Meeting notice
Scott,
Just a reminder - Meeting is this friday. We need to send out the Wort's Hoppening and remind folks. Later! -Garrett
From: GDSever
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 12:15 PM
Subject: [First State Brewers' Blog] Meeting Time Again
This Friday, Aug 19th, 7:30PM at Oliver Weatherbee's house. Scott will send out the Wort's Hoppening with directions soon.
From: Garrett Sever
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:46 PM
To: 'Scott Bieber'; 'Scott Bieber'
Subject: Bitter Orange Peel
Scott,
When you send out the Wort's Hoppening - Can you include a note to folks that I'm looking for 1oz of bitter orange peel for a witbier I want to brew? HDYB says they're all out and won't have any for a few weeks.
-Garrett
