June Meeting

by Charlie Webster

June’s meeting was held once again at Brewmaster. The highlight of the meeting was the hardware roundtable discussion, where members demonstrated their brewing equipment and shared ideas. There were two presentations on brewery equipment.

Mike Wood brought in his mash tun. Details on Mike’s mash tun are published inside this newsletter.

I talked about the "2-cooler" brewery, complete with visual aids.

Membership cards were distributed and we discussed the pub crawl tentatively scheduled for the Fall. Someone suggested a Peninsula trip by CalTrain, which was well received. I have done some research on bus prices and will present them at the next regular meeting (August).

Tom Baird donated two 50 lb sacks of grain for our evaluation. Each bag was split in to at least 4 ways with promises extracted to use it and report back. The grain is the new Scotmalt that Tom is carrying. One sack was the Chariot Pale Ale malt (which Tom says will be priced similar to the Great Western malt) and the other was the Golden Promise Pale Ale malt (which he says will be priced similar to Hugh Baird). We tasted some of each, and remarked that the kernel size seemed a little small compared to other malts. Scotmalt also produces kits under the Ironmaster, Telfords, & Glenbrew labels and is responsible for that abomination known as the Brewsack. I hope someone has brewed with the malt to report at the picnic.

PICNIC

As for the picnic, we' did not find a suitable site in time for July, so the picnic has been postponed until August 9th. Instead, there will be a regular meeting at Brewmaster on July 12th at 2:00 pm. The style-of-the-month is still "Picnic Style" so please bring what you brewed at the May Group Brew-In. The roundtable discussion is "Water" so bring your water analysis questions.