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Present: Ryan Jilek, Michael Kreitinger, Alan Church, Jerry Ford, Rocky Stoltz, Paul Ellerkamp, Dale Sattler, Doug Fettig, Craig Tessier, Jon Stika. Beer of the Month from Town and Country Liquors was Spoetzl Brewery Shiner Oktoberfest.  Spoetzl’s interpretation of the Oktoberfest style has all the elements of the style, but comes up a bit short in color, flavor and mouthfeel.  A clean, very drinkable beer with no brewing flaws.  Simply a lighter, more bitter version of Read more…

Big brew day for the Heart River Homebrewers.  Jon brewed up the extra bitter extract kit the club had and helped Ryan with one of his beers.  Rocky brewed a chokecherry stout.  Ryan brewed a parti-gyle brew with first runnings making a english barley wine, second runnings making an IPA and third runnings making a British bitter. Overall we put about 25 gallons into fermenters and had a lot of fun.

This past August, Ryan, Rocky and Jon paddled along the Heart River in Dickinson in search of wild hops.  We found several plants and harvested several ounces of flowers.  The hop had a green snap bean and mint aroma, so we’re not sure if it will be a keeper.  Some will be used in a test brew or two this winter.

Present: Jerry Ford, Michael Kreitinger, Rocky Stoltz, Ryan Jilek, Jeremiah Thorpe, Paul Ellerkamp and Jon Stika. Discussed the Beer Judge Certification Program exam that Jon completed on 9/17/11.  Jon brought a sample of English Bitter dry-hopped with the Heart River wild hops that Rocky, Ryan and Jon collected earlier this month.  The hops produced a minty-green bean-dill type of flavor in the beer.  Discussed brewing a test batch of beer and using the wild hops Read more…

Present: Rocky Stoltz, Jerry Ford, Alan Church, Ryan Jilek and Jon Stika. Beer of the Month from Town & Country Liquors was Shiner Bohemian Black Lager.  This beer was a very clean, dry, malty, dark example of the Schwarzbier style of European lagers.  The beer was well balanced to the malt side with supporting noble hops bitterness with a soft toasted malt finish. Jerry brought some Long Strange Tripel which was very spicy, fruity and Read more…

Present: Jerry Ford, Dale Sattler, Michael Kreitinger, Alan Church, Ryan Jilek, Rocky Stoltz and Jon Stika. Received a $100 donation from the Dickinson State University Foundation in appreciation of our efforts to teach Hawk’s Point residents about brewing beer.  Ryan will follow up with Hawk’s Point regarding another teaching session to brew a barley wine later this summer or fall.  Discussed the club’s role in the upcoming Knights of Columbus event scheduled for Thursday, October Read more…

Well the hop yard at the Jilek Brewhaus is doing quite well this year.

Present: Paul Ellerkamp, Ryan Jilek, Dale Sattler and Jon Stika. Beer of the Month from Town & Country Liquors was Big Sky Summer Honey.  This beer was a very light, slightly sweet balanced beer with a floral hoppiness and a light honey/malt finish. Ryan brought  an IPA.  Paul brought a BPA and Chokecherry Stout.  Dale brough a Rhubarb-Sweet Orange Peel-Coriander wine.  Discussed the need to assist brewing the Barley Wine for Hawk’s Point.  Ryan and Read more…

Present: Michael Kreitinger, Dale Sattler, Rocky Stoltz, Alan Church, Burke Gardner, Jeremiah Thorpe and Jon Stika. Meeting was held at the home of Jon Stika.  No beer of the month for this meeting.  Discussed the ND Brewers campout proposed for this summer between Valley City and Jamestown.  Mike reported that the KC beer taste event was scheduled for October 6, 2011 at the Badlands Activity Center.  The HRHB is welcome to participate in the KC Read more…