Each month before our regularly schedule club meeting, we will host an "education session" dealing with homebrewing, judging, flavors, or hardware. They start promptly at 7pm and most are limited to first come, gets the spot. To attend email KK sometime the week before the meeting. The last two were full and the last we had to turn some away due to the limited supply of beer for tasting.
 
January 2006

Guess the Pale Ale - by Mike Cotherman
A Blind tasting of 7 commercial craft Pale Ales.... Tommyknocker, Boulder Passtime, Dogfish Shelter, Great Divide DPA, Saranac, Rockies Hazed and Infused, and "our local" Dunedin Pale Ale
 
February 2006

Bottle Filler Demo - by Danny Williams
Showing use of, pros and cons of 5 different bottle fillers:
  • Blichman Beer Gun
  • B3 CPBF (pressure relief based)
  • Phil's Counter pressure Philler (siphon based)
  • Poor Man's CPBF
  • Tube in the picnic faucet that reaches the bottom of the bottle
See Filling Bottles From Kegs article and Comparison grid of bottle fillers
 
March 2006

Guess Which Beers Scored Good, Better and Best - by Jeff Allen
A sampling of 5 different styles with an example of: a very good, a medium , and a bad example of each style. We are going to test your skills at guessing which scored high, medium and low.
 
April 2006

What Beer Judges Are Thinking - by Chad Gould and Nelson Crowle
A tasting of 6 homebrews from the BFBC with their scoresheets from top ranked BJCP judges - Chad.
Also three doctored beers with detail info on DMS, Acetic Acid and Diacetyl - Nelson (see Doctored Beers article).
 
May 2006

How To Make Pepper Beers - by Dutch Morganberger
Including a showcase of 10 different kind of peppers. A hot time is guaranteed!
 
June 2006

All about Hefe-Weizens - by Mike Cotherman and KK
An overview on brewing the style and a tasting of a experiment from National Homebrew Day of 5 Hefes with the same base and each with a different Bavarian yeast.
 
June 2006

Thermometers - by Danny Williams
Everything you wanted to know about Thermometer including a "calibrate your Thermometer" session.
 
In the future

  • Everything you wanted to know about Malt by Brian Fenstermacher of Southern Brewing Supply
  • Everything you wanted to know about Refractometers and Hydrometers including a "calibrate your Hydrometer" session by Chris Wilson