Hello Sudzers,
For our August meeting, we discussed this year’s NCHF and had a presentation on kettle sours. Then we tasted 14 (yes, 14) homebrews. Thanks to Stein’s and everyone who showed up.
– Sebastian Brisbois gave a presentation on brewing kettle sour beers. The slides are available at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jEiUue8btDCZPi8fGxeCx8A57WA6t-eb-N7RniFBCRg/edit#slide=id.p
– The Northern California Homebrewers Conference (NCHF) will be on September 15 and 16. The Sudzers usually have 2 booths at the festival. A signup sheet will go out to members who are attending to find out what beer, food, and equipment they will be bringing.There will also be a club brew competition. The styles for this year’s competition are hazy IPA and fruit beer. For more info on the festival: https://nchfinfo.org/
– The beers we tasted:
| Brewer | Beer Name | Beer Style | IBUs | ABV | Brewer Notes |
| Sebastian B | Apricot and Passionfruit Kettle Sour Berliner Weisse | Fruit Beer | 5 | 3.30% | |
| Chris L | Roggenbier | ||||
| Derek W | Purple Waves of Grain | Egyptian Purple Barley Beer | 15 | 4.9 | |
| Nathan | Kolsch | 21 | 5.1 | ||
| Derek W | Citra Shine | Mexican Lager | 25 | 6.4 | Attempted Citraveza clone |
| Kevin S | Austriken! | german pilsner | 40 | 5.2 | |
| Kevin S | Brilliant Bitter | strong bitter | 48 | 6.1 | |
| Sebastian B | Saison | Saison | 30 | 5.40% | |
| Chris | Kitchen Sink IPA | IPA | 67 | 6.20% | |
| Stephan | All Eyes on Thighs | Thiolized Beer | 6.80% | ||
| Stephan | Red Ryeder | American Amber | 6.2% | Encore tasting after Santa Clara comp judging | |
| Adam C | Baltic Porter | 8.9 | |||
| Robert R | Old and Bitter | Imperial stout | 80 | 8.8 | |
| Peter Pray | Brett oatmeal stout | 28 | 5.1 |
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– All shared recipes can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cloudyforecast.com/brewme/home. If you’d like to have your recipe shared on the site, then please email it in any format to recipe-share@sudzers.org. Full info can be found at http://www.sudzers.org/?page_id=2910
– For a list of all upcoming competitions, check out the Worts of Wisdoms’ calendar: http://www.wortsofwisdom.org/calendar/upcoming-homebrewers-competitions/