Minutes from Jan. 16, 2025

Friday, January 17, 2025

Tasting glasses
- Membership seems to agree that the straight Libbey glasses are the best
- Please reply to the email from SK asking for your order quantity
- Tasters are not covered by club dues, current rate is about $6-7
Insurance
- Please reply to the email that SK will send confirming your membership!
AW's Paulaner Grapefruit Radler
- Would've thought it was soda
- Only half beer...
- Might not actually be grapefruit juice — the can just says "flavoring"
- Cloudy, low ABV, theoretically uses something like a Hefeweizen for the base
SK's North High Brewing (Columbus) Light Lager
- Easy to session — lawnmower beer
- Boring
- Easy to drink
- Not exceptional
- Wouldn't pay craft beer prices for it
CB's Cerveza Pacifico
- Slightest hop edge
- A touch drier than the North High
- A touch more flavor than the North High
- Better received than the North High
SK's Seventh Son Brewing (Columbus) Assistant Manager Golden Ale
- Very good
- Reliable
- Easy to drink
- Not very malty, not very fruity, not very hoppy, just well balanced
TG's Streetside Brewing (Cincinnati) Hello Rockview Sour
- A little kombucha-y
- Chocolate, fruit notes
- Not really all that sour
- "Cheating" sour
- Definitely lactose and vanilla
- Interesting, but probably wouldn't drink a whole 16oz of it...
- In a flight, it'd be fantastic, but on its own, it's overwhelming
- Tastes like how your tongue feels pre-covid? Maybe an almost-dead 9v battery?
Yeast discussion
- After yeast reproduction plateaus, does oxygenation help?
- Consensus: not really; the yeast have slowed down for other reasons
- Really only need to oxygenate after first yeast pitch
BM's homebrew cider
- Fresh applejuice flavor, especially surprising after storage for 15-16 mos
- Wild ferment
- Phenolic — "old Band-Aid in your mouth, but not in a bad way"
CB's cranberry mead
- Almost wine-like
- Cranberries jump out, but it's tempered down over time
- Slight drying quality, astringent
- Perhaps a bit thin, probably a result of the cranberries
JB's Bickerdyke (Mount Vernon) Hefeweizen
- Very banana-forward
- Started cold, then let the temperature rise
- Get some clove, then get mostly banana