Holiday Party 2018

The holiday party is finally here!  The meeting starts early this month, 7:00pm.  Guest are welcome tonight for the standard $15 fee.  Like always, we are meeting at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners.  There is no formal programming or guests tonight but we do have elections for our Board so please make sure to get there to vote.

Cliffords will be providing broasted chicken and potatoes.  Please bring a dish to pass, as long as it doesn’t require a heat source.  Tonight is the night to eat, drink, and be merry alongside your fellow Barons.  We will have some excellent beers on tap tonight also.  Hope to see you all there.

November 2018 – General Meeting: BELGIAN NIGHT!!

Image result for belgian style beer
Photo Credit: drinks.seriouseats.com

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!

October 2018 – General Meeting: 2nd Annual Barrel Project

Photo Credit: Breakingbrews.com

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.

2018 Picnic Details

Our annual picnic will be on Saturday, September 8th at Picnic Area 3 on the Root River Parkway (see map below) rain or shine. We kick off about noon with a food provided (burgers, brats, chicken breast, salads) along with all our drafts lines pouring homemade beers, meads, and ciders. We encourage you to bring a dish to share, chairs, pop-up tents, towels, yard games or any other summer-outdoor-type-of-thing.

Bring your best beer, mead, or cider for a chance to win our ‘best beverage’ get your name etched on the Jerry Hetzel Memorial Mash Paddle. There is also a ‘food-made-with-beer’ competition for any edible you bring that includes beer/mead/cider as a recipe component. Both competitions are popular-vote style, voted on by our guests.

We will be holding our annual picnic pay-to-play giveaway again this year. We will have a lot of great things in the pay-to-play giveaway and will update this post with more details as they become available!

Root River Parkway Picnic Area 3
Greendale, WI 53129

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/8CsZydTpq1D2

Get your tickets now!

Timeline: We’ll be there at 11am. Food starts around 12:30pm. Giveaway starts at 5pm.

August 2018 – General Meeting: Central Waters with Anello Mollica

Image result for central waters logo

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).

July 2018 – General Meeting: BJCP Night with Bruce: 25B Saisons

Image credit: https://beerinhawaii.com/

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).

Celebrating the Life of Bob Wilson – Aug 2nd from 6pm – 8pm @ Wehr Nature Center

As many of you know, we lost one of our beloved founding members, Bob Wilson, earlier this year. Bob was active in our club and brought his smile and encouragement wherever he went.

On ThursdayAugust 2nd from 6 pm to 8 pm at the Wehr Nature Center, we are joining up with several other organizations that Bob was passionate about to celebrate his life.  We encourage you to join us and to bring any friends and family as you see fit. Wehr Nature Center kindly asks that we give them a rough count of attendees from the Barons. If you plan to come, please let us know via the form below.

We will be setting up a club Jockey Box and providing beers for the crowd. If you would like to provide a keg (or bottles) for the celebration, please email Jon ([email protected]).

The Wehr Nature Center has made a PDF that you are free to distribute as you see fit.

The other participating organizations are:

Here is a map to the nature center:


Planning to join us?

June 2018 – General Meeting: Water with Jason Otto from Milwaukee Water Works

Photo Credit: http://pluspng.com/png-118497.html

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).