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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).

 

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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).