December 19, 2024
Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville, AR
- Attendance: 11
- Homebrews: 17
Meeting started at 7:08pm by Kevin Elsken with a toast by Keith Linn.
Last Month
- Brewer of the Month: Daniel Stubblefield (absent)
- Beer of the Month: Daniel Stubblefield’s Bière de Grade
- Ass of the Month: James Harvey
Guests
- HB Fink, works at Fossil Cove part time
- Kolin & LeAnn Blakely, run the Siloam Springs Center for the Arts and the Art of Home Brew Showcase
Beers were introduced and an intermission taken to sample the beers.
Old Business
Frost Fest 2025
- FLOPS can bring a maximum of 4 people and needs to provide at least 1 bbl of beer total.
- Kevin Elsken, Ty Weston, Ben Farhner are interested. Ric Bailey and Keith Linn are possibly interested.
Iron Brewer Competition
- Q4 2024: Bière de Garde (24C), due January 7, 2025 at OZ
- Q1 2025: Irish Stout (15B), due April 17, 2025 at FLOPS
- Q2 2025: Kentucky Common (27), due July 1, 2025 at OZ
- David Johnson, FLOPS’ Vice President for 2025, will plan an education segment on this style for the February meeting.
- Q3 2025: Doppelbock (9A), due October 7, 2025 at FLOPS
- Randy Germann was tapped to do an education segment on this style in 2025.
- Q4 2025: Belgian Dark Strong (26D), due January 15, 2026 at OZ
- Q1 2026: Vienna Lager (7A), due April 16, 2026 at FLOPS
- Q2 2026: Irish Red (15A), due July 7, 2026 at OZ
- Q3 2026: Rauchbier (6B), due October 15, 2026 at FLOPS
- Q4 2026: Hydromel (M1?), due January 5, 2027 at OZ
Miscellaneous
- A nice time was had at the Christmas social at Mad Rooster on December 14th.
- Amanda McWhirt from the U of A will be presenting at the January meeting. OZ members are welcome to attend.
- Anubrew in Rogers is close to reopening. Doc Farmer was in there a couple of days ago; they’re stocking shelves, and their website is out of date, but they should be fully open within a week.
- Patrick Bohannan has grain by the pound available. Members should email or text him if they are interested.
- David Johnson still has HopKick available. Members should contact him if they are interested in some.
- Randy Germann brought the finished product from the MoreBeer flash brew kit that he brewed. It only took him 50 minutes to brew!
New Business
New Province Brewing: King for a Day
- Brew day: February 8, 2025
- Judging day: March 15, 2025 at New Province
- New Province will brew Philosopher King onsite to mash-out, then homebrewers will do the boil at New Province or at home, hop it how they like, and ferment at home.
- Participants should take pictures and document what they do at home.
- Lewie Lewis will set up a signup page for this event
2025 Officer Election
- Officers for 2025 were selected in a no-contest election:
- President: Kevin Elsken (incumbent)
- Vice President: David Johnson
- Secretary: Ben Farhner (incumbent)
- Treasurer: Chris Abel (incumbent)
- Hop Scheduler: James Harvey
- Mug Watcher: Keith Linn (incumbent)
- Communications Chair: Ric Bailey
Hop Schedule
- Bluebonnet
- If you’re not signing up on Jan 4, you’re probably not getting in!
- March 21–22, 2025 in Fort Worth, TX
- Entries due January 25, 2025
- $15 per entry
- More info here
- Bière de Rock
- Only French & Belgian styles
- February 1, 2025 in Aurora, CO
- Entries due January 11, 2025
- $9 per entry
- More info here
- Bataille des Biѐres
- February 1, 2025 in Lafayette, LA
- Entries due January 18, 2025
- $10 per entry
- More info here
- Bluegrass Cup
- February 8, 2025 in Lexington, KY
- Entries are closed
- More info here
- Kansas City Bier Meisters
- February 22, 2025 in Kansas City, MO
- Entries are closed
- More info here
- Bluff City Extravaganza!
- February 22, 2025 in Memphis, TN
- Entries due January 31, 2025 (already 189/300)
- More info here
- 2024 Red Earth Brewers Spring Brew Off
- April 12, 2025 in Oklahoma City, OK
- Entries due March 21, 2025
- $12 per entry
- More info here
- NHC
- January 28th entries open
- Awards in KC
- All AHA/BJCP sanctioned competitions can be found here.
Miscellaneous
- Ozark Beer Co. is releasing BDCS 2024 on December 28th at 11am.
- Black Howler Beer Co. sponsored the brewer’s choice competition at Art of Home Brew Showcase earlier this year, and Keith Linn won, with his winning beer brewed and served at Black Howler. Patrick Bohannan presented checks from the proceeds to the Siloam Springs Center for the Arts ($1000), FLOPS ($245), and OZ ($245)
- Kolin Blakely announced that the Art of Home Brew Showcase will take place on May 10th or 17th in 2025.
- David Johnson reached out to Justin McGinnis about the women’s shelter brewing event. They are looking at April or May 2025, but there are no details yet.
- Ivory Bill Brewing Co. is closing at the end of the year. They released their final Vintage Ale barleywine (boiled 13+ hours) on December 20th.
Kevin Elsken led a brief education round-table discussion.
Meeting closed at 8:21pm, opening up G.O.D.S. (Greater Ozark Drinking Society).
Brewer of the Month
- Keith Linn
- Ben Farhner
- Ty Weston
Beer of the Month
- Keith’s 11 yo mead
Ass of the Month
- Ken Gill for skipping the meeting to go the beach with the ladies
Meeting concluded at 8:39pm.
