February Meeting Recap

Thanks to everyone who made the trip up to Guthrie for last week's Red Earth Brewers monthly meeting. And a big thanks to Rick's Fine Chocolates and Coffees for hosting our motley crew.  We had some great discussions, learned a few things (the tasting lineup will be much more organized in the future) and got to taste a lot of great stouts.  Here's a brief recap:

1.  From Tony's super dry-hopped American stout to Wes' crazy sour cranberry stout to Scott's insanely imperial oil slick stout, there was an amzingly wide variety of beers brought to the meeting.  Congratulations to Tony Tielli, who took first place in the stout tasting competition.  His winning recipe (in all its fancy metric measurement glory) is below.  Also, congratulations to Ross Harper and Daniel ??? (sorry I didn't catch your last name--please email me at redearthbrewers (at) gmail.com so I can update it with your correct name) who took 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Come to the Dark Side.

2.  On another voting matter, we finalized the official club logo.  As you may recall, we sent out our 13 original entries to an electronic vote.  We then took the top 5 and voted at last week's meeting for our favorite.  When all the votes were tallied using a 3-2-1 voting system (3 points for a first place vote, 2 for second and 1 point for third), the top three were:


1st place with 27.6% of the vote



2nd with 24.2%

 

3rd with 19.5%

As we've said before, we'll probably still keep using different logos for different purposes from time to time.  But the bottlecap logo above will be our "official" club logo.  Big thanks and congratulations to Red Earth Brewer and graphic designer extrordinaire John Mitchell for the winning entry.

3.  Our next meeting, pending the weather and burn ban status, will be an outdoor social activity and bonfire at the Piedmont home of Scott Cragg.  No specific beer to brew, but please bring some of your favorite homebrews or craft beers to share.  More info and directions will be sent out shortly.

4.  Our April meeting (April 21st, location TBA) will be a SMASH beer.  For those who don't know (like myself until a few weeks ago), SMASH is short for Single MAlt, Single Hop.  In other words, you're only allowed to use one type of grain or extract (that means no mini-mashes) and one hop variety.  Beyond that, the only limit is your own imagination.  It'll be a great way for everyone to really get to learn what flavor qualities a specific grain, hop or yeast brings to the table.  And to make things more interesting, we may have a little competition where everybody can play "name that ingredient" and see who can identify the different things that went into everybody's beers.

5.  If you're not already doing so, please be sure that you're following us on Facebook and Twitter.  That's where we post most of our updates along with some other fun or interesting things we find. 

Thanks again to everybody who made it out to last week's meeting.  I can't wait for the next one.  Happy brewing!

Tony's American Stout

BJCP Category 13E

Target OG : 1.080

Target FG : 1.022

ABV 7.69%

Batch Size: 6 Gallons (at the end of the boil)

Calculated at 70% efficiency.

75% (6.44kg) Pale Ale Malt

9%   (800g)   Chocolate Malt

5%   (480g)   Roasted Barley

5%   (400g)   Crystal 40L

2%   (160g)   Crystal 80L

4%   (350g)   White Table Sugar

33g  Magnum    (13.6%aa)  - 60 minutes

20g  Centennial (10.0%aa)  - 10 minutes

20g  Cascade    (5.5%aa)   - 10 minutes

30g  Centennial (10.0%aa)  -  1 minute

30g  Cascade    (5.5%aa)   -  1 minute

30g  Centennial  (10.0%aa)  - Dry Hop

20g  Cascade     (5.5%aa)   - Dry Hop

White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale (repitched slurry from previous batch)

Ferment at 65F until complete, dry hop for 7 days following fermentation.

Red Earth Brewers logos

Thanks to everyone who voted in our recent poll about club logos and, more importantly, to the great graphic designers in our midst.

Every design submitted got some votes, but there were two that got far and away the most support

Big thanks toRed Earth Brewers Jeremiah Ivey and John Mitchell for coming up with the two logos above.

As mentioned before, we're not limited to these two and there may be times that we need to use other logos (or new ones, so keep 'em coming!).  But these two will be our predominant branding for the time being.

Thanks again to everyone who entered and voted.  I look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting at McNellie's on the 27th!

More December Meeting Pictures

Thanks to Red Earth member Sarah Schuster for providing us with some more photos from our December tasting/meeting at COOP Aleworks. Enjoy!





Kegs of Horny Toad destined, sadly, for somewhere other than my house.



Our hosts with the most.



Oak Aged Territorial Reserve Imperial Stout.  A work in progress.



Hey, COOP.  Nice cans.



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December Tasting Notes

A big thanks to everyone who came out on the 16th and made our first tasting a huge success.  And a huge thank you to Blake and the awesome guys at COOP AleWorks for hosting us.  We had approximately 30 members attend, and almost a dozen entries for our pale ale tasting.  First prize went to Wes Glinsmann for his all-citra pale ale (he's posted his base recipe here).

Our next meeting will be Thursday, January 20th, location TBA.  So stay tuned for further announcements.  

If you're not already following us on Facebook and Twitter, be sure to check us out as we'll be posting regular updates and info there.

A few of the pale ale contest entries.

Blake, COOP's head brewer, leading a tour of the brewing facilities.

Gail (3rd place), Tony (2nd) and Wes (1st) were our first tasting winners.

Pale Ale Winners

Last night's meeting at COOP Aleworks was a huge success! We'll have pictures and a more complete wrap-up coming soon, but we wanted to post the winners of our first club competition.

In the American Pale Ale (BJCP Style 10A) category:

First Place: Wes Glinsmann's CXP All-Citra Pale Ale
Second Place: Tony Tielli's Glacier Pale Ale
Third Place: Gail White's Millennium Madness

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to everyone who entered. There were a lot of really good beers, and our tastings are only going to get better. The next tasting will at our February meeting and will be a stout (BJCP Style 13). So good luck with your brewing!

Tasting Night at COOP!

Save the date: the next Red Earth Brewers meeting will be held Thursday, December 16th at 7:00 pm.

Now here's the good news--the awesome guys over at COOP Aleworks have agreed to let us use their brewery for our tasting!  The COOP brewery is at 1124 NW 51st St. (on 51st St, just west of Western Ave.--map below).

We'll be sampling all of our homebrewed pale ales this month.  So bring enough hoppy goodness for everyone to have a little sample.  If you bring a beer, please also bring a printout with your ingredients and any special methods you used.  That way, anyone who wants to copy your recipe would be able to do so.

The guys at COOP will have tables set up for us and are providing the tasting glasses.  They only thing they don't have is chairs.  So please bring your own folding chair if you would like to sit down during the course of the evening. 

Have a great weekend everyone!

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