FLOPS Club Meeting Minutes
December 16, 2021
Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville
7:12 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by Forrest, welcome by club President Tom Maddock
New attendees
Justin – Invited by Chris, has made some homebrew on borrowed equipment
Old Business
The club acquired a new display banner. Tom is in possession.
Elections – Nominations for officers will be held in June
Iron Brewer – January 4, 7 pm, at Natural State Brewing. Winter Warmer is the style,
2022 Iron Brewer styles are:
Q1 – Czech Pils
Q2 – Belgian Blond
Q3 – American Wheat
Q4 – Doppelbock
Barrel Project: Old Toe Sucker was brewed by Fossil Cove on Saturday, July 11. Jack McAuliffe was able to join us for the brewing session. Brian Sorenson and James Spencer joined us and hopefully they will be able to share the story of the event more widely. Ben Mills at Fossil Cove has ordered whiskey barrels, in which the brew will age. Anticipated release is fall of 2022.
A number of club members took wort home to ferment – the club would like to hold a tasting event at a future date so that we can compare all of the club members’ efforts, as many different yeasts have been employed.
New Business
December social/Xmas party is this Saturday at Greg’s house. Begins at 5 pm, bring food and beer if you can.
Membership Dues for 2022 are payable to Chris in January. The price remains $20.
Be sure to review your Brewer of the Year points activities and get them to Keith and Tom.
Greg reminded everyone that we can post recipes on the website, be sure to post on social media anything abut you brewing efforts.
Larry McAlister mentioned that an updated version of the 2015 BJCP style guidelines are due to be released this month. A few changes of note:
New England IPA is now called Cloudy Sewer Runnings Hazy IPA and will located in the IPA category
Trappist Ale category is now Monastic Ale
Brut IPA is now a specialty IPA
Clone Beers are now Commercial Specialty Ales
Daniel Stubblefield will have a “Beginners All Grain” class at North Tunnel Supply on January 8th at 10 am. All are welcome to attend.
A motion was made to close the meeting. Seconded and passed.
Education
Keith shared what was allegedly a commercial Helles beer brought to him from New York. It was actually a pretty tasty “Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer”. The point is that even the pro brewers mess it up.
Brewer of the Month:
Ben Farhner – he brought a 5 year old Gruit that was absolutely wonderful. Thanks for that!
Ass of the Month
Lots of holiday cheer in the nomination process for AOM. I believe someone nominated a beer stool, though this was not confirmed. In the end, reliable Tom Maddock got the nod. Seems he was trying to buy votes with cookies.
