n00b from Utah

[feedthebear]

Dixon, You must have missed me by 20 minutes. When the waitress asked if I wanted another beer, I should have said, "Yes." But I had too much stuff going on.

The next couple of weekends should be less hetic.

We can try Squatters again. I found out that I can take my kid into their restaurant area.

Or we can try something more up your way.

 

[knipknup]

Alright, I'm only 7 months late on this one, but now in Utah. Just relocated to Draper and my family is still in Idaho until Feb. I need some buddies to enjoy homebrew with. I'm toying with the idea of having a few people over to sample and swap homebrew. If anyone is interested, PM me.

The only snag is that I am gone every weekend in Jan '08 to see my family.

I'm also always game to meet at squatters or ? for a brew.

 

[feedthebear]

I should be more available for beer meetings starting this Friday.

I also wanted to drop a beer update to my fellow Utahns.

Wasatch has their now Devastator Double Bock in the liquor stores. Its decent. I'm not sure why, but all Wasatch beers seem have the same hop flavor to me. So if you like other Wasatch beers, you will like this one.

Uinta also has their seasonal Monkshine in the liquor stores. I don't know if the grocery stores carry it or not. I wasn't sure if I'd like Monkshine when I bought it. I mean a Pale Ale fermented with Belgain yeast doesn't exactly sound like a good combo. They used mellow hops and I'm guessing there is some candi sugar in there some where too. It is an unusual flavor, but it works. For some weird reason, the spicyness cause by the yeast and the lightness caused by the candi sugar complements the pale ale. But if you are a pale ale purest or you like a lot of hop flavor, you aren't going to like it.

 

[BeehiveBrewer]

Hey guys. I'm still into meeting up and trading some brews. You guys ever heard of ZZ Hops, the local club? I thought it had gone away, but I got an email from them. Looks like they are having a meeting on March 1. Weekdays/nights are always good for me.


"Hi the Porter meeting is Saturday March 1st at 7:00. Joe A is the host. Address: 3478 south 500 east (corner house) 467-8098

you do not need an entry to attend, just bring some homebrew to share with the group

hope to see you there, mike"

 

[feedthebear]

I'll see if I can find a babysitter for the 1st.

 

[mrkristofo]

Damn..that's the GF's b-day. Looks like I'll be out of commission this time around. We should set up a brewday mid-march, fellas.

 

[knipknup]

Thanks for the info. I'm definitely interested. Can you reply to your email and make sure they won't mind a few drop-ins?

My family will be out of town so I will attend if welcome to. :rockin:

 

[BeehiveBrewer]

knipknup,

check your private messages.

Let us know what you find out.

Beehive

 

[knipknup]

Thanks. Here's to home brew, no matter where you live!

 

[feedthebear]

"Hi the Porter meeting is Saturday March 1st at 7:00. Joe A is the host. Address: 3478 south 500 east (corner house) 467-8098 "

It looks like I'm not going to be able to make it after all. Instead of getting my mother in law to watch my daughter tonight, I'll be helping her do some work around her condo.

Frick and Frack.

 

[knipknup]

Bummer. I'll post how it goes...
Now, back to being a 50% law abiding citizen of the State...

 

[knipknup]

Well, the weather was nasty but the meeting happened.

The host provided some Colorado Elk, which was very good.
There were 7 or so people there. Me and another nOOb. The meeting started at 7pm but I and others trickled in late.

I have only attended meetings from one other club in Idaho. Here are the differences I noticed...

This one did not have a 'business' portion to the meeting. Not as official in taking meeting minutes, approving last meeting minutes, proposing new items, etc. The Idaho club always has enough stuff going on to warrant this part of the meeting. This is probably a result of having this part. Vicious circle, you know... They have a rule that the drinking/tasting portion of the meeting doesn't start until the business portion is complete. This is to ensure that it gets completed.

The club meeting here is based around the club contests as detailed by AHA. Last night was a porter meeting. It started with snacks and some misc beers to taste. Then after about an hour of hanging out, etc, the meeting moved to official porter judging for the club entry. There were five entries and three purchased examples, so eight tasting/judgings in all. All were blind with official BJCP judging sheets. It took about an hour to get those eight judged. One of the members went out of his way to get some classic examples of Brown, Baltic and Robust Porters and probably spent a few $$ to make it great. Some of those beers were very good.
After the judging was complete, we broke out some other beers to sample and enjoy.
I probably overstayed my welcome and headed home at about 11:30pm.
Pretty good time!