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[ChefLamont]

Last night we had our monthly brew club meeting.  It was a basic meeting and the discussion was good. Attendance was low because of the holiday, but that made it smaller and better able to talk.  Then came time for the samples.  That was where things really took off.

 

Only one was kinda bad, but it was an experiment that he mentioned up front. We wont discuss that.

 

One guy brought an Octoberfest - first lager. Very good especially for a first lager.

 

One guy brought a maibock - first lager. Very good especially for a first lager.

 

One guy brought a brown ale sorta thing that was hoppy and defied style.  However it was quite good.

 

I brought the zombie dust clone and got a lot of positive feedback.

 

(and this is where it is really interesting)

 

This new couple who has ties to the culinary industry brought some far out beers that were really good.  One was a white chocolate lime beer using powdered white chocolate. Tasty and interesting.  And the other was a chanterelle mushroom and woodruff beer with ingredients he foraged himself. It was really spectacular and good.

 

Then another guy who does some good but fringe type brewing brought a grodzisie (polish smoked wheat beer) that was really good.  He also brought a Sumerian historical beet where he made the date wine, baked the bread loaf, and fermented them together.  It was only a month old but sour and delicious.  It was as good as sour beers that take a year or more to age out.

 

 

It was just an incredible, eye-opening meeting with the samples.

 

[BlKtRe]

Crazy beers. Id try them if I could of. 

[positiveContact]

this place is my brew club meeting.  i have no brew club.  sounds pretty awesome though.

[SchwanzBrewer]

Very nice!

 

I strive to make meetings fun. It's tough. It gets easier as consumption increases.

[djinkc]

I've had a few like that but way back.  Pretty cool for when it was but jeez.......  You hit a jackpot, tell them to move to KC when they get sick of Atlanta.

 

Edited by djinkc, 02 December 2013 - 06:36 PM.

[dmtaylor]

I had the same result with the Sumerian beer I made a few years ago.... very tart... best described as "sour fruity bacon".

 

Probably never had quite as epic of a club meeting as you did, but we've had some pretty decent meetings I must say.

[ChefLamont]

This one didnt have the bacon dimension.  It was quite tart though, but not overly so.  Maybe it was power of suggestion, but the fruityness was more darker dried fruit than anything.  If there had been some more malt character in there, it would have been a very passable flanders red.

 

I suggested he try the same technique but do more modern wort production on the "grain" side.  In other words, do the date wine, but mash some grain to add rather than the baked loaf thing.  I think it would could be seriously good.

[bigdaddyale]

I didnt make the meeting but Mitch Steele and his band played at the last club meeting.

[armagh]

This one didnt have the bacon dimension.  It was quite tart though, but not overly so.  Maybe it was power of suggestion, but the fruityness was more darker dried fruit than anything.  If there had been some more malt character in there, it would have been a very passable flanders red.

 

I suggested he try the same technique but do more modern wort production on the "grain" side.  In other words, do the date wine, but mash some grain to add rather than the baked loaf thing.  I think it would could be seriously good.

https://byo.com/stor...144-archaeobeer

 

Something like this, maybe?

[ChefLamont]

Interesting.  That sounds close, but I really dont think there was smoke character in there. I will have to ask him about it next time I see him.

[gnef]

Dang it! I picked up a friend from the airport that night, so I couldn't make it to the meeting.

 

Hopefully the new couple will be back. Maybe I'll bring in some high gravity stuff again. haha. It's been a while since I've done that.

[ChefLamont]

Doooooo iiiiiiiitttt!!!

 

 

Yea, I think they are in for good.  They will be back.

 

FYI Ray was who brought the other two.

 

 

Whatever, I missed that epic mead night we had, and I am still sad about that.

[gnef]

Haha. Hopefully I'll be able to make the January meeting. I'll need to dig through the walk-in to see if I can find anything interesting. 

 

Ray is definitely the mad scientist of the group. Haha.

[dmtaylor]

https://byo.com/stor...144-archaeobeer Something like this, maybe?

That is the exact recipe that I made. Sour fruity bacon.

[armagh]

That is the exact recipe that I made. Sour fruity bacon.

Did the bacon flavor come from the smoked malt?

[dmtaylor]

Yep. It wasn't crazy strong, but certainly noticeable. If I brewed again I might skip the smoke and try a mild ale malt or Vienna malt or something like that.