Events

This is the time of the year for big beers, so get ready for our potent HAIR OF THE TONGUE India Pale Ale. Join us this Thursday, November 13th, as we let it flow free in our bar from 6pm to 6:30pm.

Hair of the Tongue is a west-coast style Rye-P-A brewed with Munich and aromatic malts to provide a clean malt base for the truckload of American hops that spice this brew. Simcoe, Chinook, Centennial, Sterling, and Cascade hops give this beer an unmistakable Citrus edge. At 7.0% alcohol-by-volume it also gets your attention quickly.

As usual at South Denver, I will be tapping this beer through our Randall, loaded with fresh Whole Simcoe hops. This will let you take the hop experience all the way to the edge! In addition I will be pulling out cask IPA, Nitro IPA, as well as regular IPA through the taps. I made plenty, so come on down and get some hair on your tongue!

Agenda

Here’s the preliminary agenda for the meeting:

• GABF Debrief – club strategy for next year
• Rock Hopper logo pint glasses
• National Homebrewers Association Convention, June 18-20, 2009 in Oakland, CA
• Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival in Vail - January 1009
• FOTR competition results are in
• Hop Reference Sheet and hop sampling
• IPAs: Tasting and Competition Judging

Celebration of the Hop

This month, we'll again be judging entries into the AHA Club Only Competition.

If you have one or more IPAs ready to go, bring at least 22 ounces of each to share with the group and two 12 ounce bottles (so we don't have to track you down just in case you win).

There will be commercial calibrators provided from the following categories:

We’re doing a beer and dessert pairing on the 18^th from 5-8 pm.  Details on this tasty event are to be announced at a later date.

Hosted by Frank Barickman and the Scioto Olentangy and Darby Zymurgists (SODZ) club of Delaware, OH, this competition covers BJCP Category 14 styles. For more information, contact Frank Barickman at fbarickm@columbus.rr.com.

Hop Disciples unite!  Great Divide is hosting the first official Hop Disciple meeting in the Tap Room on the 20th.  We will be serving a specially made hop monster of a beer, accompanied by an informal hop seminar and private tour from 6-6:30 pm at no charge.

A Decade of Hog Heaven: 1998 to 2008

A very special evening at the Avery Tap Room featuring a multi-year vertical tasting of our Hog Heaven Barleywine Style Ale presented by Adam Avery and other Avery Staff.

We're always looking for an excuse to throw a good party here at Avery Brewing Company, so when we realized that it's been 10 years since our first batch of Hog Heaven Barleywine back in 1998, we jumped on the opportunity. To tell you the truth, we've been so busy brewing beer that we almost forgot the big anniversary. After tossing around ideas of a giant pig roast (too cold outside and besides, we're still full of pig from the August Anniversary party!) we've decided that the best way to pay homage to our favorite hop-bomb is to break into the cellar and see how it has aged over the years.

The event will be catered with light food and appetizers, including fine cheeses and meats to compliment the beers served. Adam Avery and other Avery staff members will be on hand to present the beers. The format for the evening will resemble other beer dinners that we have done in the past. All twelve taps will be pouring additional specialty Avery brews throughout the evening! Show up at 7:30 to taste some interesting new stuff and stay for the vertical.

Our monthly cheese and beer pairing is on the 25th from 5-8 pm and costs $10 for five pairings. Please RSVP for pairings at info@greatdivide.com. For more info on beer and food pairings for the Holidays visit SEASONALBeerandFood.org

Join Kelly and Jason as they embark upon another marathon brew session.

Join Kelly and Jason as they embark upon another marathon brew session.

CHEER LIKE IT’S 1933!
Thursday, December 4th

This week marks the 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition and we couldn’t be happier!

In 1933, after too many days and weeks of empty pints (4708 days too many), there was finally an end to the drought and we were again OK to join our friends, raise a glass, and cheer a historic day in our history!.

Join us this Thursday, December 4 at 6pm for a celebratory toast. If you stop by and get your Mug Club card swiped, we will add $7.50 in Club Cash (you know, for the 75th Anniversary) to your card that you can use at any time December 5 thru 14. It’s our way to thank you for your support.

Here’s to another 75 years of good times and great beer!

Tapping of Old Curmudgeon '07 at Rock Bottom South

Gotta have this before the meeting!

Minutes

...are posted here.

Agenda

1. New meeting format
2. Officer reports: President, Events, Communications
3. Officer responsibilities
4. Officer elections - March 2009
5. Dues
6. Bourbon Barrel II update
7. Upcoming competitions
8. New business
9. Open discussion
10. Club Only Competition judging
11. Open tasting

UPDATE

If you plan on submitting a beer for the Club Only Competition (see below), please bring TWO ADDITIONAL 12 ounce bottles with the proper documentation filled out (bottle id label rubber-banded to each bottle and an entry recipe form), just in case you win.

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This month is a "free for all" month - bring in your brews for tasting and feedback.

Additionally, we'll be judging for the Club Only Competion for January - Belgian and French Ales.  If you've got a beer that fits into BJCP category 16, bring it!  Category 16 includes:

Hey all, yep, it's that time again!  Time for the winter beer fest at the Smith household in Castle Rock. It'll be Dec 13th, a sat, at 7pm. For those of you not familiar with these, here's the details.

Everyone brings 2 six-packs (though from you all, I expect equivalent amt of homebrew) For non-brewers I ask for fall / winter brews (though not everyone gets this) for you all, whatever you got going is fine. Food, tasting cups, and of course a cake from the resident cake decorator!

For all of us that didn't make it to the GABF, or who just want another shot at a similar event this is it! We have plenty of room for anyone that can't drive after the festivities, and it should be a good time! please RSVP as soon as you can to firefighter083@comcast.net or 720-229-0334 so we can be sure to have enough of everything. If things go well, i'll have a vanilla porter, a pomegranate wheat and a hard apple cider on tap!

Hope to see you here!

Scott

1058 Kittery Street

Castle Rock, CO 80104