Quick Sips for November Brewday @NTHBS November 4th 9am – 3pm Officers Meeting @Armor Brewing November 7th 6:30pm – 8:30pm Club Meeting @NTHBS November 14th 6:30pm – 8:30pm
These and other events can be found on our Club Calendar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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).