April's Club Meeting

This month's club meeting will be at Levity. Tue Apr 9, starting at 8pm. Bring your gose!

December Club Meeting and April Competition

This month's club meeting will be held Tue Dec 11, 8pm, at Twisted Jimmy's.

In April, we will be having a club competition (friendly, of course) to taste everyone's version of a gose. If you're interested, please have your gose ready to drink by the second Tuesday of April.

August Club Meeting

Our August club meeting will be held Tue Aug 12 at 8pm at Brunzies, corner of 5th and Philly St.  This month is our SMaSH competition (Single Malt and Single Hop), and we'll be talking about the Downtown Indiana Oktoberfest (Facebook, Twitter) opportunities for volunteering on Sat Oct 4.

August Club Competiton - SMaSH!

We decided at the June club meeting that for August's meeting, interested brewers could participate in a SMaSH experiment (Single Malt and Single Hop).  Joe Newhouse is organizing this, so here's what he has to say below:
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SMASH beer info. we are shooting for a OG close to 1.050.

hop variety to use:
Luke McKelvy - Super Styrian

Bill Dietrich - Pacific Jade

Craig Pluchinsky - Millenium

Tom Montgomery - Galaxy

Peter Broad - Magnum

Joe Newhouse - Summit

 All grain recipe.

10 lbs 2 row pale malt

1 oz hops (60 min. boil)

.5 oz hops ( 30 min. boil)

.25 ox hops (15 min. boil)

.25 oz hops (2 min. boiil)

use safale 05 dry yeast.

You may mash at any temps you want. I personally mash @ 152 F.

Extract.

While Muntons extra light and light DME are true 2 row , Briess uses 2 row and Carapils in both LME and DME. You may use any of the extra light, light golden light etc. that you see fit. It will still give the results we are looking for.

Extract Recipe

6 lbs DME or 2 of the 3.3 lb cans of LME

1 oz hops (60 min. boil)

.5 oz hops ( 30 min. boil)

.25 ox hops (15 min. boil)

.25 oz hops (2 min. boiil)

use safale 05 dry yeast.

good luck,

 Joe

August Club Meeting - Change of Location

The August meeting (Tue Aug 13) will be held at 8pm as usual.  However, we will be holding the IPA competition at Twisted Jimmy's rather than at PA BBQ.  Twisted Jimmy's is right next door to Steel City Samiches on North 7th Street.  Depending on the construction on 7th, it's likely that you'll have to park on Philadelphia Street.

February Meeting Had Record Attendance

The IPAs met last night (Tue Feb 12) at the Coney on Philadelphia Street.  In all, we had 26 people at the meeting, which included three new members (Welcome!), many 'regular' attendees, and a few old familiar faces.

Although this was to be our Stout brewing tasting, there were also a few non-stout brews shared. And two of the stouts supplied by members were commercial brews rather than homebrews. Regardless, there was a lot of great beer being passed around last night.

We sampled dry stouts, milk stouts, imperial stouts, stouts with chocolate, with coffee, and with blueberries.  We also had an American Pale Ale containing traditional root beer herbs/spices, a pilsner, and an India Pale Ale.  All in all, a nice evening.

Thanks to Carolyn and Ryan for holding the main dining room for us and for the great service.

Save the date:

• Red Cross Gala (the club donated a homebrew starter kit for auction) Thu Mar 14

February 2013 Homebrew Club Meeting

The February 2013 IPAs club meeting will be held at 8pm at The Coney on Tuesday, Feb. 12.  We will have several tables reserved for us in the main dining area to avoid the DJ and the game room.  Carolyn, veteran server at the Coney, will be our waitress for the evening.

Many thanks to those who offered alternate solutions to our meeting-place quandry. Had the Coney not acquiesced to giving us prime seating, we would be headed elsewhere for this tasting.

The meeting agenda for Tuesday will be to get updates on any beer-related news in the region (festivals, new releases, etc.), discuss upcoming events for the club, and then get to the main event: the homebrew stout tastings!

Should this not be enough beer, the Coney currently has Penn Märzen on tap and Rogue Dead Guy, Founders Breakfast Stout, and Bells Two Hearted in bottles.