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by ryanmetcalf
Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Meeting Cancellation - January 9th, 2025
Replies: 0
Views: 592

Meeting Cancellation - January 9th, 2025

All, due to inclement weather, the January meeting scheduled for Jan. 9 has been cancelled. Watch your email for a survey to vote for the 2025 officers! We hope to see you at our next Hoppy Hour on Thursday, Feb. 6, at Merchants Pub & Plate and at our next meeting on Thursday, Feb. 13.

https://i ...
by ryanmetcalf
Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Homebrewing helped spark the craft beer boom. Now interest is waning.
Replies: 1
Views: 628

Re: Homebrewing helped spark the craft beer boom. Now interest is waning.

Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/hiQNF

:cry:
The business closures reflect a steep decline in homebrewing interest in the United States. The AHA’s own membership is down. It had about 45,000 members between 2016 and 2019; in a 2023 year-end annual survey, it counted only 30,000. After ...
by ryanmetcalf
Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: If you’re enjoying a craft beer right now, say a word of thanks to Jimmy Carter
Replies: 1
Views: 490

Re: If you’re enjoying a craft beer right now, say a word of thanks to Jimmy Carter

He encouraged a Democratic-controlled Congress to pass legislation in 1978 that legalized home brewing. At the time, there were fewer than 100 breweries in America, most of them making the same tasteless schlock. Today it is not uncommon to find big cities that have 100 breweries on their own ...
by ryanmetcalf
Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: Meeting Minutes
Topic: Janurary Meeting Minutes 2024
Replies: 3
Views: 9289

Re: Janurary Meeting Minutes 2024

Ron, try this link for the January 2024 slides :)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... drive_link
by ryanmetcalf
Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Guild Payment option(s)
Replies: 0
Views: 34989

Guild Payment option(s)

Couldn't find a current/active post detailing PayPal, payment options, etc, figured I'd start a new one
Looking to renew your membership? Trying to buy Brewfest tickets? Needing to do other business with the Guild?

The easiest/fastest/self-service method is via our PayPal:
Can send PayPal ...
by ryanmetcalf
Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hopped Up: Brewing Beer with Fresh Hops from Kansas
Replies: 0
Views: 35683

Hopped Up: Brewing Beer with Fresh Hops from Kansas

Until recent years, Kansas and Missouri did not have a local fresh hop option for most breweries. Kansas Hop Co is changing that, delivering fresh hops within an hour of being harvested for brewers to put straight in the mash tun, for a super fresh beer.

https://www.flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks ...
by ryanmetcalf
Thu May 13, 2021 9:08 pm
Forum: Product Reviews
Topic: Spunding Valve
Replies: 0
Views: 167862

Spunding Valve

We were talking at tonight's meeting about naturally carbonated kegs vs force carbonated and it got me thinking

Who has done natural keg carbonation and who has either bought or built a spunding valve?
https://byo.com/project/build-your-own-spunding-valve-to-carbonate-in-the-keg/
https://www ...
by ryanmetcalf
Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Friends and colleagues remember Kansas City brewer Rodney Beagle
Replies: 0
Views: 37984

Friends and colleagues remember Kansas City brewer Rodney Beagle

This last week, KC lost a big member of the professional brewing and homebrewing community

Nearly three-dozen breweries throughout greater Kansas City have initiated plans to brew, package and sell a mixed six-pack of beers based on Beagle’s recipes from his days at Colony KC. All proceeds from ...
by ryanmetcalf
Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Call Is Coming From Inside the House — Craft Beer’s Self-Inflicted Existential Crisis
Replies: 0
Views: 35695

The Call Is Coming From Inside the House — Craft Beer’s Self-Inflicted Existential Crisis

Good read!

https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/20 ... ial-crisis

The portions on inclusion can apply to homebrewing too! I've been trying to think up ways to reach those we may not be targeting/reaching
by ryanmetcalf
Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Boulevard Brewing Co. becomes lightning rod for criticism following tepid response to sexual harassment allegations
Replies: 1
Views: 15257

Boulevard Brewing Co. becomes lightning rod for criticism following tepid response to sexual harassment allegations

https://www.thepitchkc.com/boulevard-brewing-becomes-lightning-rod-for-criticism-following-tepid-response-to-sexual-harassment-allegations/

Over the weekend, Kansas City found itself in the national spotlight via a viral Reddit post. The author, a former female employee of Boulevard Brewing Co ...
by ryanmetcalf
Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:40 pm
Forum: Brewing Recipes
Topic: Sour in an Hour? Brewers are experimenting with white koji to speed up the time to acidify their kettle sours.
Replies: 8
Views: 41165

Re: Sour in an Hour? Brewers are experimenting with white koji to speed up the time to acidify their kettle sours.

Ok, I might have re-read the Oct.co article again and caught this, they only used 10%. So the previous % might be for the rice dryness malt character mix, vs biological count

Over the last two years, he and his team have made two commercial batches with nuruk. First, they inoculated rice with ...
by ryanmetcalf
Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:39 pm
Forum: Brewing Recipes
Topic: Sour in an Hour? Brewers are experimenting with white koji to speed up the time to acidify their kettle sours.
Replies: 8
Views: 41165

Re: Sour in an Hour? Brewers are experimenting with white koji to speed up the time to acidify their kettle sours.

Part of my issue has been reading/research, trying to figure out why their specific on the function/use. I keep getting caught up on the sentence,
“With test brews that we’ve done with white koji, if you make it 20 to 25 percent of your grain bill, you could make a sour beer in a standard 1-hour ...
by ryanmetcalf
Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:51 am
Forum: Brewing Recipes
Topic: Jester King Homebrew Recipes
Replies: 0
Views: 31781

Jester King Homebrew Recipes

Maybe you left the Nov meeting wanting a little more Jester King in your life, they've got some homebrew recipes published for sharing!

https://jesterkingbrewery.com/blogdev/homebrew-recipes
BIERE DE MIEL - ale brewed w/ Texas wildflower honey
DAS WUNDERKIND! - blend of young, fresh ale w/ mature ...
by ryanmetcalf
Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brewers Pour 50% Less Beer Into Kegs With U.S. Bars Locked Down
Replies: 0
Views: 29153

Brewers Pour 50% Less Beer Into Kegs With U.S. Bars Locked Down

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/u-s-beer-keg-production-stumbled-more-than-50-as-bars-closed
More than 651,000 jobs supported by the U.S. beer industry are forecast to be lost by the end of the year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report from the Beer Institute, the ...