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Present: Alan Church, Jerry Ford, Rocky Stoltz, Ryan Jilek, Alicia Erickson, Glen Bruhschwein and Jon Stika. Discussed beers members are currently fermenting and plan to brew this winter.  Alicia brought some 2014 Blues & Brews glasses.  Discussed new breweries opening in North Dakota, such as Drekker in Fargo.  Discussed holding the December meeting at a local pub or restaurant, but no consensus was reached on the subject.  Jon suggested the next meeting should be scheduled Read more…

Present: Glen Bruhschwein, Joel Empter, Rocky Stoltz, Steve Klicker, Jan Heimdal and Jon Stika. Rocky provided a Treasurer’s report.  Discussed yeast washing, saving and repitching yeast, pepper beers and upcoming judging at Hoppy Halloween in Fargo, ND next weekend.  Joel raised the question of what collective brew should be next for aging in the club barrel. Jon Stika Secretary

Present: Ryan Jilek, Jerry Ford, Michael Kreitinger, Steve Klicker, Tyler Benson and Jon Stika.  Supper potluck meeting hosted by Stika’s.  

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Present: Jerry Ford, Glen Bruhschwein, Ryan Jilek, Alan Church, Joel Emter, Jan Heimdal, Paul Ellerkamp, Todd Droval and Jon Stika. Discussed club representation at the Knights of Columbus “A Knights Brew” event September 20th at the Dickinson Recreation Center. Jon and Ryan will represent the club at the event and each serve beers they brewed. Jon, Ryan and Jerry reported on their respective hop harvests. Jerry reported that he will acquire some malting barley from Read more…

Ryan, Jon, Eve and Jerry represented the club at the 2014 Blues & Brews.

Present: Ryan Jilek, Joel Empter, Michael Kreitinger, Glen Bruhschwein, Alan Church, Jerry Ford and Jon Stika. Jon shared recent correspondence addressed to the club.  Jon shared brewing newspapers brought back from a recent trip to Oregon.  Discussed various homebrew suppliers and new yeasts, etc. that they had to offer.  Discussed Knights of Columbus Beer Taste scheduled for September 20th at the Dickinson Recreation Center.  There will be no formal competition or judging of the beers Read more…

Present: Ryan Jilek, Jerry Ford, Alan Church, Steve Klicker and Jon Stika. Discussed the upcoming Blues & Brews event, Saturday, June 7th at the Biesiot Activities Center in Dickinson, ND.  Several members plan to attend and serve their home brewed beers.  The beers brewed at Hawk’s Point for the even have been kegged and connected to carbon dioxide to carbonate them.  Discussed hopping strategies for bitterness, flavor and aroma.  Several beers were sampled and discussed. Read more…

Glen, Alicia, Jerry, Jon and Lindsey watch kettles of boiling wort during the 2014 Hawk’s Point brew session on April 4th in the Hawk’s Point kitchen.  The brew crew (back) Jerry, Ryan, Glen (front) Jon & Rocky.

Present: Ryan Jilek, Jerry Ford, Joel Empter, Rocky Stoltz, Michael Kreitinger, Glen Bruhschwein, Steve Klicker and Jon Stika. Discussed upcoming brew session at Hawk’s Point to brew three kit beers for Hawk’s Point to serve at Blues and Brews on June 7th.  Ryan has the kits.  Members will bring brew kettles, wort chillers and other gear and meet at Hawk’s Point at 6PM and begin brewing at 7PM.  Ryan reported that Custom Design in Dickinson Read more…