Present: Jerry Ford, Ryan Jilek, Rocky Stoltz, Heath Braun, Paul Ellerkamp, Alan Church, Michael Kreitinger, Chip Ford and Jon Stika.<\/p>\n
Ryan reported on and the group discussed the upcoming Blues and Brews event scheduled for June 2, 2012 at the Badland Activity Center in Dickinson.\u00a0 Several club members plan to bring beer to the event.\u00a0 April 13th<\/sup> was tentatively set as the date for club members to assist with brewing of beers for Hawk\u2019s Point to serve at Blues and Brews.\u00a0 Paul reported on the Bakken Brewfest held in Sidney, MT on March 3rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Sixteen Montana breweries were represented at the event.\u00a0 Discussed new membership cards that include the AHA club number.\u00a0 Ryan will make the cards.\u00a0 Jon led a discussion of organic chemistry and the common compounds associated with the brewing process.\u00a0\u00a0 June 22nd<\/sup> was discussed as a probable date for the ND Brewers campout at Cross Ranch State Park.\u00a0 Discussed a Heart River Home Brewers club only home brew competition as part of the club picnic this summer.\u00a0 Jon offered to host the picnic.\u00a0 A date has not been set.\u00a0 Motion by Paul, seconded by Ryan to purchase 2 used oak wine barrels from Runnings.\u00a0 After some discussion, President Ford called for a vote on the motion. \u00a0Motion passed.\u00a0 The barrels will be used to age beer that will be brewed by several members in order to produce enough of one style of beer to fill the barrels.\u00a0 Porter was discussed as the first potential style to be brewed for barrel aging.<\/p>\n Jerry brought Estate Homegrown Ale by Sierra Nevada, Paul brought home-brewed Teddy Stout with chokecherry in it and a BPA.\u00a0 Rocky brought an Amber Ale.\u00a0 Ryan brought sweet sparkling mead.\u00a0 Alan brought a Dubbel and Framboise limbic, Jon brought Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale by Boulevard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Present: Jerry Ford, Ryan Jilek, Rocky Stoltz, Heath Braun, Paul Ellerkamp, Alan Church, Michael Kreitinger, Chip Ford and Jon Stika. Ryan reported on and the group discussed the upcoming Blues and Brews event scheduled for June 2, 2012 at the Badland Activity Center in Dickinson.\u00a0 Several club members plan to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}