Please join us for our October meeting where we will be sampling some club team barrel projects. There will be some good wheat wines, reds, and other good barrel aged brews on the jockey boxes for sampling.

To accompany our barrel aging project we will welcome Kyle from 1840 Brewing. If you are not familiar with 1840 Brewing, they are the best of the best when it comes to barrel aging. Whether it is porters, stouts or sours and they do it and do it well! They will be discussing their process and providing input on how they do things.

For those not familiar with the club, the next general meeting is on October 23rd @ Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!

Coming to the Barons all the way from Portland Oregon is Imperial Yeast. Founded in 2014 Imperial carries the slogan “Be good to people, be good to wort.” No doubt that Imperial will be good to our club.

Earlier this year we had another yeast company come in and the feedback was great. This should be another great meeting. Be There or Be Square!

For those not familiar with the club, the next general meeting is on September 25th @ Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!

Our annual picnic will be on Saturday, September 7th at Picnic Area 3 on the Root River Parkway (see map below) rain or shine. We kick off about noon with 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

While you are welcome to buy your tickets to the picnic onsite the day of, we appreciate you buying them ahead of time! It helps us gauge how many people will be in attendance, and therefore how much food, beer, and swag to bring! Get your tickets now!

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

The August meeting is for all of the lovers of history. Joshua is a Sociology PHD candidate @ UW-Milwaukee. His research is focused on how alcohol, especially beer, was used as a political feasting resource in prehistoric Europe (early Iron Age west-central European 800-400BC specifically). Joshua is particularly interested in the shelf-life of prehistoric beer: Longer shelf-life -> more beer -> bigger feasts -> more political power. (Insert Tim Allen grunt for “more power.”)

Joshua was kind enough to provide a few links of prehistoric recipes; see below:

For those not familiar with the club, the next general meeting is on August 28th @ Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!

This month we welcome Dave Buss from Davali Ridge hop farms. Dave is a seasoned hop farmer and homebrewer. He has vast knowledge of what it takes to start and grow hops, what it takes to produce high hop quality, and how to monitor plant health. Dave will have a presentation for us and then a Q&A will follow. Please plan on attending!

For those not familiar with the club, the next general meeting is on July 24th @ Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!

The food sort event will be held at the Hunger Taskforce located:

201 S Hawley Ct Milwaukee Wi 53214

The volunteer event consists of unloading donated items from pallets and sorting/packing boxes. The event typically goes for a couple of hours. It involves standing and a small amount of lifting.

Afterward, we are going to Benno’s for some food and drinks!!! We invite you to sign up below and bring your spouse or friends!!!

In June we welcome Julie Waterman from Indulgence Chocolatiers. We will be doing a Beer/Chocolate pairing. We will sample four different styles of Beer and Chocolate.

Julie developed her passion for handcrafted chocolates while backpacking through Europe. She currently owns three retail locations and distributes hand made chocolates to many other retailers. She is very knowable in the ways of Chocolate and Chocolate pairing. After speaking with her for a bit my interpretation would be that she is the “Jedi Master” of Chocolate.

For those not familiar with the club, the next general meeting is on June 26th @ Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!

This month we welcome Joe Yeado – Founder and President of The Gathering Place Brewery. Community engagement is the name of the game for this brewery. Joe donates a portion of his profits every quarter to local charities/non profits.

You can find brews from The Gathering Place all over the community. They are at too many establishments to name so here is the link to find them near you http://www.gatheringplacebrewing.com/find-our-beer

The Gathering Place also co-sponsored the Cream City Homebrew Competition, which the club had great representation. Two of our entries made it into the finals and numerous others entered.

For those not familiar with the club, the next general meeting is on May 22th @ Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!

Please join us on the 24th of April as we welcome our guest speaker Lance Shaner – founder/owner of Omega Yeast. The popularity of Omega Yeast has exploded as of late. Omega is resilient and aggressive, the yeast also offers impressive flavors and quick fermentation. Lance will be talking about his company and their great products. We will have a minimum of 10 kegs fermented with Omega on tap so there will plenty to share. Feel free to invite your friends!!!

For those not familiar with the club we meet at Cliffords Supper Club in Hales Corners. We start @ 7:30 p.m. and be sure to bring tasting glasses!