LAGERS June 2019 Newsletter Upcoming Events July 1 — Registration Deadline for Kentucky State Fair Homebrew Competition. Click HERE to register. July 10 — Late Registration for the KSF Homebrew Competition. Entry fees increase from $5 per entry to $8 per entry after 7/1. July 12,13 — Indiana State Fair Brewer’s Cup– Judges and Stewards are still needed! Sign up HERE if you are interested in helping out! July 15 — LAGERS Monthly Meeting at Akasha. Chuck Harp will share his expertise on beer judging per BJCP guidelines. August 4 — Yappy Hour Brew in at Apocalypse Brew Works. One of the most fun…
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Good evening LAGERS! I’d like to share the winning recipe from our May meeting homebrew contest. Evan Brill was the winner with his excellent German Pilsner. I hope everyone who attended had a chance to try this beer! Evan will be presenting more about how to brew this style in our June monthly meeting, but for now we’d like to share his winning recipe. See the recipe link below with details about the grain and hop bills, along with water treatment and mash/boil schedules. Enjoy! German Pilsner
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Hello LAGERS! Hope your weekend has been fantastic and you’ve enjoyed a few tasty brews! See below for a summary of some upcoming events and recent happenings. Upcoming Events Bluegrass Cup– June 8th: Hosted by our friends in the BOCK club “Brewers of Central Kentucky,” I’m sure many of you have entered. The BOCK team needs Judges for this event!!! Several LAGERS are riding over to Lexington next Saturday so ask around if you need a ride and would like to help. Click HERE for more info. LAGERS June Meeting– June 17th at 7PM: Brewing German Pilsner with Evan Brill. See the…
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Hello Lagers! Summer is here and with it the heat and humidity that makes summertime in the ‘Ville so much fun! Not to worry– our own Evan Brill has volunteered to talk to all of us about brewing Pilsner at our next meeting on June 17th. Now I know what all of you are thinking… Evan Brill is our resident hop-head, right? I thought he only made IPA? Well for those of you who don’t know.. Evan is also a fantastic LAGER brewer (pun intended) with a number of award winning lager beers to his credit, including a Best of…
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May 20th 7pm at Akasha Brewing, we will be hosted once more for our monthly meeting. We promise this will be the last time you have to hear about sugar but we figured it would be fun to have a meeting more on the lighter side of information. How well do you know your basic sugars? Where do they come from? How are they made? Put your palate to the test. Can you identify all the different types? Do you know the best use for each? Join us as we discover the different types of sugar available to us for…
