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November Brew Day at NTHBS

Hello everyone, November brew day will be at North Texas Homebrew Supply and we are looking for people that would like to brew that day. Please let me know if you will be brewing on Nov 4.

There will be a Brewzilla system available if you want to use or you can bring your own equipment.

Someone asked a question during our club meeting this past Tuesday if we had selected a recipe, and coincidently I received an email from AHA with a suggested recipe, in case anyone would like to try

SMaSH Sensory Blonde Ale – SMASH meaning Single Malt Single Hop!

Ingredients:

  • Malts
  • 2 lb. (907 g) base malt of your choice
  • Hops
  • 0.15 oz. (4 g) Cluster, 7.8% a.a. @ 60 min
  • Yeast
  • 1/2 sachet (5.5 g) Fermentis SafAle US-05

Specifications:

Yield: 1 US gal (4 L)

Original Gravity: 1.046

Final Gravity: 1.010

ABV: 4.7%

IBU: 25

Efficiency: 70%

Directions:

Mash at 152°F (67°C) for 60 minutes. Use the same base malt in each batch, but use different hops, specialty malts, or different yeasts. Use 1.2 lb. of dry malt extract in place of base malt for an all-extract version.

Cheers, Marcio

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Club Meeting Tuesday Reminder

We will have our October Club Meeting tomorrow (Tuesday the 10th) at Odd Muse Brewing Company. Folks will start to gather at about 6:30pm and we will start Club Business at about 7pm. Odd Muse is located at: 4488 Spring Valley Rd, Farmer’s Branch, TX 75244

Another reminder about the Pub Crawl via a bus. Tickets for the pub crawl are available now in our website: Pub Crawl Tickets We will also have pub crawl tickets available on the club meeting, look for Jimmy.

I’ll see you there.

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Inaugural Texas Homebrew Club Invitational Tournament

The Houston area Mashtronauts club is hosting a heads up, bracket style inter-club competition next month.

The rules are straight forward, each club can enter 3 beers (and an optional 4th if one bottle ends up broken) . Each beer will be labeled as Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and judged against another club’s Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 bottles. You can think of it as mini-best of show judging.

The winning beer from each round will move forward.

Since this is a mini-best of show style judging no score sheets are given, But since the event will be live stream you can hear the judge’s comments in real time !

Anyone interested in submitting a beer, ping me and if possible bring your entry to the club meeting at ODD MUSE on Tuesday October 10th (don;t bring the beer into the tap room though). You will need to include the style as well.

If we get more then 3 entries we will need to figure out a way to choose just three; coin toss, arm wrestling, pistol duel, I’m open to suggestions. If someone has two entries they would like to enter just bring them both and will decide which one (or both) to enter.

Remember you are representing the club so lets find those 40+ point entries that I know everyone can brew and enter those.

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]

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October 2023 Newsletter is Published

We are getting close to the end of the year and it is time to think about Club Officers for 2024. Please consider being an officer. It keeps the club going. We have an Officers meeting tonight at Cafe Amore. Please come join us and see what the Officers do. Cafe Amore is BYOB so this is a chance to bring your homebrew to an Officers meeting.

Here is the link to the newsletter: Click me for the newsletter

Quick Sips for October:

Officer’s Meeting @Café Amore, Richardson October 3rd 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Brewday @Hodges October 7th 9am – 3pm

Club Meeting @Odd Muse Brewing October 10th 6:30pm – 8:30pm

These and other events can be found on our Club Calendar.

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PUB CRAWL!

Join us for a NTHBA pub/beer crawl on Saturday, October 28th from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm. We will board the bus from 3 Nations Brewing Co. in downtown Carrollton at 1:00 pm and then head south to Peticolas Brewing Co., Manhattan Project Beer Co., Autonomous Society and Four Corners Brewing Co. We will return to 3 Nations by 7:00 pm.

Members may purchase a ticket for themselves and a guest for $10 each. Member’s guests do not need to be a member. Additional non-members may purchase their own ticket for $20. Your receipt will be your ticket to ride.

Ticket may be purchased here: https://nthba.org/product-category/pub-crawl/

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September Brew Day This Saturday!

Address: 4100 Camino Dr. Plano 75074

Starting at 9AM THIS Saturday, Sep 23, Smitty will be hosting the September Brew Day. Smitty and Mike Grover are brewing a Rauchbier. Others are encouraged to brew as well.

We will provide lunch. College football will be on, and undoubtedly a cigar session will occur sometime in the afternoon. Please bring homebrew or commercial beer to share, including/especially your homebrews to be evaluated. If you have any questions, please reach out to Smitty at [email protected].

Cheers!
Smitty

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The medals go to …….

For the penultimate COC of ’23 the competition was close with 10 entries in 10 different styles. After much discussion the judges, Amanda Garland, James “Smitty” Smith, David Jones and the esteemed Bill Lawrence, selected Heath Garth and his Marzen for the Bronze, Steve Littel picked up the Silver for his Wesissbier, and Marcio Fazzani took home the Gold with his Catharina Sour.

You can see the results over at coc.nthba.org and download your score sheet.

Thanks to North Texas Homebrew Supply for allowing us to use their store for few hours and Terry Olinger for staying late.

Reminder you collect Brewer Royale points for being a COC judge.

Thanks again to all who entered, the last COC of the year will be in November, registration will open November 1st and close the day of the November club meeting (COC takes place on the odd numbered months).

Cheers John,

[email protected]

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2023 Oktoberfest Follow up

Hello everyone, great meetup at 2023 Addison Oktoberfest.

Thanks for all that attended this event. Check some pics in the link below.

Click here

If you forgot to bring your stein home please contact me – I have 5 steins that were left on the tables at the event.

Cheers, Marcio

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Oktoberfest Tickets sent by email

Hello NTHBA – Some of you attended the club meeting yesterday and received your Oktoberfest paper tickets.

For the list of people below, I have sent your Oktoberfest ticket by email in a pdf format. Please reply back to me acknowledging you received your tickets

HarryAnderson2
BrianBeyer2
MikeDwyer2
JasonGarland2
LeroyGharis1
Michael Grover1
ScottParker1
DBVan Gilder1

Thank you

Marcio Fazzani

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Reminder, September COC entries due September 12th

Reminder, the September Club Only Competition (COC) registration closes this Tuesday, September 12th at 5pm and your entries of 2 bottles need to be turned in at the club meeting at North Texas Home Brew Supply this Tuesday evening. If you can’t make the meeting, please reach out to me and we can make other arrangements.

You can register your entry and print off labels at coc.nthba.org

Full Brewer Royale / COC rules can be found at nthba.org/brewer-royale

And for anyone who did not enter, please consider being a judge, no experience needed, and best of all you get to drink free beer (you can register on the COC site)

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]