It's my turn to host the super secret brew group. I'm really tempted to buy a holocaust cloak on amazon and make some sort of hokie brewing medallion to wear. But that's besides the point...
We formed this group to take on higher level brewing subjects. As the host this month I'm supposed to come up with a theme for the meeting. Last month was NE IPA. Now there's a host of things I know enough about to be dangerous, I don't pretend to be an expert on any brewing subject. I'm not sure what to research for the meeting.
Things I'm well versed in... German Ales, delicate beer brewing, process controls.
I'd like to do German beers, but I don't have anything to share and getting good examples is REEEALLY tough.
The people in this group already have a lot of process controls, they're not noobs.
The other thing I can do is use the group as a sounding board and use them to find information on something I'm interested in. Like I mentioned in another thread, I would like to brew a bunch of IPA's. I haven't done much IPA brewing. I have a good idea of how to go about it, but without having even a starting off point beer to share it seems a bit useless. Maybe I could find a bunch of commercial beers that use conventional C-hops and compare them against some of the newer hop beers.
I dunno, I don't feel strongly about anything and I have a week and a half to come up with something.
Any ideas?
Cheers.