{"id":49,"date":"2008-08-02T17:42:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T21:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2019-09-03T12:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:38:44","slug":"july-2008-meeting-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"July 2008 Meeting Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">July 24, 2008<span> <\/span>Meeting of the Heart River Homebrewers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Present: Paul Ellerkamp, Rocky Stoltz, Dale Sattler, Jon Stika and Tanner Stika.<span> <\/span>Meeting held at Custom Data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">President Ellerkamp called the meeting to order at 6:30PM.<span> <\/span>The group briefly discussed a summer picnic.<span> <\/span>No motion was made but a group consensus indicated September would be a preferred time to have the picnic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This month\u2019s contributions from Town &amp; Country Liquors were two Sam Adams Long Shot beers; Grape Pale Ale and Weizenbock.<span> <\/span>The Grape Pale Ale was interesting, with a slightly sweet green grape finish, but not as hoppy as a typical Pale Ale.<span> <\/span>The Weizenbock<span> <\/span>was very good and smooth and very true to style with dark color and a slightly spicy, licorice finish.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/july2008allbeers.JPG\" title=\"All beers sampled July 2008\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/july2008allbeers.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"All beers sampled July 2008\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rocky brought a beer he brewed with a Big Ben Pale Ale kit from Midwest Brewing.<span> <\/span>The beer was very good and balanced with a malty finish but was more characteristic of an English Mild than a Pale Ale for lack of hoppiness.<span> <\/span>Rocky also brought some Nut Brown Ale brewed by South Shore Brewery of Ashland, Wisconsin.<span> <\/span>The beer was very smooth with a nice dry hazelnut finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Paul brought his Liquid Bread which was an attempt at cloning Fat Tire.<span> <\/span>The beer was fermented with two different yeast (New Belgium Brewing yeast and a Belgian Abbey Ale yeast).<span> <\/span>The beer was closest to a Brown Ale in style and found to be very drinkable.<span> <\/span>Paul also brought some Brutal Bitter brewed by Rogue Brewing Co.<span> <\/span>The Brutal Bitter was an excellent beer and true to the Bitter style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ryan brought some Sweetgrass IPA brewed by the Grand Teton Brewing Co.<span> <\/span>The beer was a good IPA, but the sweetgrass flavor and aroma was difficult to detect in such a big beer.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dale brought some rhubarb\/apple wine which was slightly sweet with excellent color and flavor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jon Stika<br \/>\nSecretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 2008 Meeting of the Heart River Homebrewers Present: Paul Ellerkamp, Rocky Stoltz, Dale Sattler, Jon Stika and Tanner Stika. Meeting held at Custom Data. President Ellerkamp called the meeting to order at 6:30PM. The group briefly discussed a summer picnic. No motion was made but a group consensus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/49"}],"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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heartriverhomebrewers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}