Hey everyone it’s that time again!!!  AHA National Homebrew Day!!

So come on out to Pike’s Peak Brewing Co. on May 4th.  We’ll open up the gates at 8:30 AM.

Bring out your equipment and ingredients, PPBC will provide water and electricity.

The recipes look great this year, they are the top three winners from last years ProAm competition at GABF.  You can check them out here   http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/events/national-homebrew-day/recipes

If you’re not brewing, just stop by and say hello.

Find out more info about Big Brew Day here: http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/events/national-homebrew-day

April 26, 2013

Boulder Sour Fest tickets on sale

Here’s the proposed agenda for tomorrow night’s meeting at Pikes Peak.  (Apologies for not getting it out earlier.)

Bru Bus – Buy tickets!  Tell your friends!

Odell Comp – We’ll be voting on a winner at the end of business.

Pints Update – Brought to you by Landy.

Elections – No contested positions.  Announcing new committees.

Holiday Party – Working on it.  Will be announced on meetup.

Bowling Shirts

Grain Buy

Don’t foget to support our sponsors.  Without them, our club would have trouble finding adequate meeting locations.

This month’s sponsor is the Texas T-Bone Steakhouse, where we had our October meeting.  They have north, south, and west locations.  Their express lunch is a good value, and quick.  They also have an early-bird special for dinner that seems like another good value.  Check out their website for more info: http://www.texastbonesteakhouse.com.

We have a twitter handle now : @BrosBrewClub.  Commence following.

As your new president, I think you all should know a little about me.  If you haven’t met me yet, consider this my introduction. First of all, I would like to send a huge thank you to Shoe and Johnny for fostering our club into what it is today.  We have a vibrant crew filled with lots of competent brewers.  Our club keeps getting better and better, and I look forward to taking us further.

Amanda and I both hail from the small town of Lexington, VA, nestled in the heart of the Shenandoah mountains.  We both went to University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where I got a master’s in electrical engineering. I moved to Colorado Springs in 2006 to take a job with Agilent Technologies, and Amanda followed soon after.

As for my brewing background, my brother kicked me into the hobby with a typical bucket-based starter kit, and into kegging a few years later.  Because I have been an apartment dweller until a few years ago, I spent way too long doing partial mash batches.  It took a six-month old kid in my life (Danny is now 2 years old) and nearly ten years of brewing to finally get me off my butt and build a true all-grain setup.  Since then, I’ve become obsessed.  Currently, I brew on a single-tier BCS-460 stand that I designed and had built custom, pulling ideas from the Brew Magic, Morebeer’s brew sculptures, and the Electric Brewery.

Favorite Breweries : Jolly Pumpkin, Firestone Walker, Russian River, Bells, 3 Floyds
Favorite Beers : Bam Biere, Monk’s Cafe, Two Hearted Pale Ale
Favorite Podcast : Sunday Session by The Brewing Network
Favorite Style to Brew : Anything and Everything
Hobbies outside of homebrewing : parenting, ultimate frisbee, hiking, & road cycling

I look forward to taking our club to new heights.  If you have any ideas to help us become a better club, please let me know.

The El Paso County Fair homebrew competition is an AHA/BJCP sanctioned event. 

Categories accepted: Summer styles: Light Lager  (BJCP style 1), Pils (2), Light Hybrid (6), American Ale (10), German Wheat and Rye (15), Belgian & French (16), and Fruit Beer (20).

Entries: Entries will be accepted Jul 16 – 20, 2012.  Entry fee is $5 each.  Make checks out to “El Paso County Fair”.  

Ribbons will be awarded in each category for first, second and third place.  Additionally, a best in show award will be given.  All awards will be presented at the Fair on July 21 along with scoresheets.

Contact Rich Mock rvmock@gmail.com

The Forums are now available! The forums are a private place for Brew Brothers to discuss club related events or just about anything else.

Membership is restricted to active, paid members, and as such it is important that you use the same email address you use with the club.

More details and instructions are available here.

Eric and Isaac from the local beer blog, Focus on the Beer, did a review of the club’s Olde Broale, which was commercially brewed up at Rockyard Brewing. They gave it a really great review. Check it out!