Author: Max Liptack

This months general meeting is our annual Belgian Night! Please remember it will be on the 4th Wednesday of the month, November 28th!!

We have a wide variety of Belgian style beers to sample, that has been put together by one of our members Tom Nowalis. Please join us in sampling the variety of Belgian style beers while we discuss some of the many differences between the American style Belgians compare to those from over the pond.

We will also be continuing our pre-meeting beer evaluation. Starting at 7pm, if you have a beer you want to get real-time feedback, bring in a bottle or two and have several BJCP judges provide constructive criticism to help make you a better brewer.

For those of you who are new, our general meeting begins at 7:30pm and will be in its usual location at Cliffords Supper Club located at 10418 W Forest Home Ave, Hales Corners, WI 53130.

Also please remember, November is our month for Officer nominations. If you wish to run for a position please make sure you attend this meeting!

This month’s general meeting will be the 2nd Annual Barrel Aged Beer Project. In this project, the Beer Barons purchase used barrels for aging a brew of the teams choice. This year we have several teams along with individuals who also aged beer for sampling.

Please join us in the sampling of these beers as each of the teams discuss their recipe, their barrel selection, the barrel condition, and the process they took to make and age the beer.

Last we will also be continuing our pre-meeting beer evaluation. Starting at 7pm, if you have a beer you want to get real-time feedback, bring in a bottle or two and have several BJCP judges provide constructive criticism to help make you a better brewer.

For those of you who are new, our general meeting will be held on October 24th, begins at 7:30pm and will be in its usual location at Cliffords Supper Club located at 10418 W Forest Home Ave, Hales Corners, WI 53130.

Last – next months meeting will be our usual Belgian night! However, please note, it will occur the 4th Wednesday of November.

This month we welcome Central Waters with Co-Owner Anello Mollica!

While Anello and Central Waters really need no introduction, I’ll keep it short. Central Waters has been around since 1998. After several exchanges in ownership, the brewery is now owned by Anello and Paul Graham.

Central Waters is notoriously known for their stellar barrel aged beer program.

 

The beer lineup includes this years return of Peruvian Morning, Honey Blonde, HHG, and Bourbon Scotch. We may also have a Pilot Batch to sample along with some very limited samples from deep in the CW cellar – these will not be listed online, you will have to attend the meeting to find out!

Last we will also be continuing our pre-meeting beer evaluation. Starting at 7pm, if you have a beer you want to get real-time feedback, bring in a bottle or two and have several BJCP judges provide constructive criticism to help make you a better brewer.

This general meeting will be held at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners, WI on Wednesday, August 22nd. The meeting will start at 7:30pm, however you are welcome to stop in earlier and enjoy food that Cliffords has to offer. Please remember to bring your own tasting glass (or two).

Love ’em or hate ’em, a saison is a complex beer that are relatively simple in recipe formulation and are tolerant to much higher fermentation temperatures (great option for summer time brewing for those without fermentation control).

This month we welcome a well know member and BJCP judge, Bruce Buerger, to breakdown category 25B; Saisons! Please join us to learn more from Bruce’s vast knowledge of beer evaluation and styles. Make sure you bring a question or two as well, just don’t forget to ‘use your words’.

Last we will also be continuing our pre-meeting beer evaluation. Starting at 7pm, if you have a beer you want to get real-time feedback, bring in a bottle or two and have several BJCP judges provide constructive criticism to help make you a better brewer.

This general meeting will be held at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners, WI on Wednesday, July 25th. The meeting will start at 7:30pm, however you are welcome to stop in earlier and enjoy food that Cliffords has to offer. Please remember to bring your own tasting glass (or two).

Beer is mostly water and yet a small percentage of homebrewers seriously consider how important of a role water plays in their brew and certainly, not all water is alike.

This general meeting we welcome fellow Beer Baron Jason Otto, a water enthusiast, who also happens to work for the Milwaukee Water Works. Please welcome him while he talks about the water filtration process that our water undergoes and also begins to compare how our local water supplies stack up against each other.

Whether you just use tap water, use a carbon filter, or build you water from scratch using Reverse Osmosis (RO) water, this meeting will help you learn how to interpret your water report and how to put that to work for you. We will also explore a few relatively easy ways to experiment with the most common water additions and what effect they will have on your beer.

As a quick reminder, if you plan to bring a homebrew, you must bring ~2 gallons of your water to sample side by side with your beer.

Last we will also be continuing our pre-meeting beer evaluation. Starting at 7pm, if you have a beer you want to get real-time feedback, bring in a bottle or two and have several BJCP judges provide constructive criticism to help make you a better brewer.

This general meeting will be held at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners, WI on Wednesday, June 27th. The meeting will start at 7:30pm, however you are welcome to stop in earlier and enjoy food that Cliffords has to offer. Please remember to bring your own tasting glass (or two).

This months general meeting we will pull a few meeting ideas that were too short on their own to make a full meeting from. Our primary mini-session will be on brewing equipment. This session is intended to help the brewer who is new to the hobby all the way to the advanced brewer looking for their next system expansion.

Over the last 2 years, we have had several new members join us for each meeting. It is not uncommon to hear that they have never brewed before, this session will help them understand what is available, what the acronyms mean and the pros and cons. Specifically focusing on All-Grain brewing equipment and the options available and why you would want or need them. For the advanced brewer this meeting may help fill out your understand of the systems available and could help you see through the gimicky marketing that is around us to see what will really help your brewing improve.

Our second Mini-Session will be announced at the meeting. I don’t want to give this one completely away before the meeting…

Last we will also be continuing our pre-meeting beer evaluation. Starting at 7pm, if you have a beer you want to get real-time feedback, bring in a bottle or two and have several BJCP judges provide constructive criticism to help make you a better brewer.

This general meeting will be held at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners, WI on Wednesday, May 23rd. The meeting will start at 7:30pm, however you are welcome to stop in earlier and enjoy food that Cliffords has to offer. Please remember to bring your own tasting glass (or two).

This month we welcome Raised Grain to join the Barons. Raised Grain began when two full time doctors and avid homebrewers were discussing who made better beer, Belgium or Scotland. The beer they brewed as a compromise to their argument became their flagship brew and subsequently the 2016 GABF gold winner, Paradocs Red. Raised Grain recently expanded their production into a 20,000 Sq Ft space with a state of the art brewing system and canning line.  You can find them online at http://www.raisedgrainbrewing.com or you can visit their taproom at the address below.

2244 W. Bluemound Rd. Suite E. Waukesha, WI 53186

Click Here For Directions: (a little tough to find, but we promise it’s worth the effort)

This month we welcome founder & co-owner, Tommy Vandervort and head brewer,  James Larson of Enlightened brewing company to join us for our general meeting.

Tommy worked many years in the service industry, during this time he fell in love with craft beer. It wasn’t until his parents gifted him a home brewing kit for Christmas, that he found his passion for brewing.

James earned his Master’s Degree in Brewing and Distilling from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland and spent an internship at Bells Brewing.

Enlightened first opened its doors in January 2013, brewing only a half barrel at a time in the Lincoln Warehouse. They have since moved to their larger space, and upgraded to a 3.5 BBL brew house in 2016.

This general meeting will be held at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners, WI on Wednesday, March 28th. The meeting will start at 7:30pm, however you are welcome to stop in earlier and enjoy food that Cliffords has to offer. Please remember to bring your own tasting glass (or two).

This month we welcome Mike Doble (founder) and Kyle Ciske (head brewer) of The Explorium Brewpub, they are the first and only brewery located in Greendale. Mike and Joan Doble founded The Explorium Brewpub in 2016.  Mike grew up traveling the world as a child of the military; Joan is a Wisconsin girl with strong roots in Milwaukee. They settled in Milwaukee in 2008, but a few years ago, they ventured to Florida to lend a hand in the family brewpub business. Armed with new-found knowledge and experience, Mike and Joan came back home to Wisconsin to develop a brewpub of their own bringing together the best of their experiences. 

This months meeting will take place at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. As usual the event will start at 7:30pm.

 

This month’s general meeting we welcome Tim Pauly of Broken Bat Brewing Company.  Broken Bat opened in April of 2017 in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.

Broken Bat’s name comes from the notion that “In baseball, when a bat breaks, it’s something unexpected.  And that’s essentially what our beer is going to be like, what the brewery is going to be: something different, unexpected.”

As always, members are encouraged to bring their latest homebrew to share with the group. Please notify me directly if you plan to bring anything served on tap.

This general meeting will be held at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners, WI on Wednesday, January 24th. The meeting will start at 7:30pm, however you are welcome to stop in earlier and enjoy food that Cliffords has to offer.