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    April 2020 Monthly Meeting – Coffee with Busted Bean

    Join us on Monday, 4/20 7:00PM on ZOOM for our monthly meeting. No membership is required and homebrew is always encouraged. Please use the following link and login credentials: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82405137144?pwd=bEtYa0REV0dLUllZRkNKQncvamZkZz09 Meeting ID: 824 0513 7144 Password: 010301 Coffee, it’s one of the most often used ingredients to add flavor to beer. It’s used in award winning beers and compliments many styles of beer, most notably stouts. A plethora of world class commercial beers use it to add complexity such as Founder’s KBS, Perennial’s Sump, and Akasha’s Brain Check. It’s selection, however, is often overlooked by brewers as it can often…

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    LAGERS February 2020 Newsletter

    Upcoming Events March 4th — Tailspin + Apocalypse + LAGERS Tapping Party March 7th — Tailspin Ale Festival March 13-15 — NHC First Round Judging in Indianapolis March 16th —  Monthly Meeting – Yeast Management with Kristy Holsopple March 18th — Gordon Biersch + LAGERS Pro-Am Tapping Party April 20th — Monthly Meeting & Officer Nominations May TBD – Bulk Grain Buy This month is full of special events and great opportunities to support your fellow LAGERS. March 4th we will be having our tapping party for David Pike’s winning Tailspin Competition beer, a chocolate mint stout. The event will…

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    May 2020 Monthly Meeting – Yeast Management with Kristy Holsopple

    CANCELLED Join us on Monday, 5/18 7:00PM at Akasha Brewing Co. for our monthly meeting. No membership is required and homebrew is always encouraged. This month we are all very excited to welcome Kristy Holsopple to come talk to us. She is owner, quality manager, and yeast whisperer at Holsopple Brewing Co. and full time scientist at Brown-Forman. Kristy brings us a wealth of knowledge from her education in biology and career experiences as a microbiologist at Sam Adams and quality control specialist at Miller Coors just to name a few.  You’ll be sure to learn plenty about yeast quality…

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    2020 Tailspin Ale Festival Competition Winners

    Hey LAGERS, Thank you to those of you that participated in our annual Tailspin Ale Fest Competition on such short notice. We had a whopping 12 entries with 6 advancing to the next round and 4 winners. Without further adieu, your tailspin winners are: 🥇David Pike – Iron Pike’s Thin Mint Stout (Mint chocolate chip flavoring, cacao nibs, lactose stout) 🥈Brandon Schaefer – Nutella Porter (hazelnut, cocoa, vanilla porter) 🥉Greg Butorin & Sarah Popko – Humulunimbus (NEIPA) HM: Craig Gardone – Top of the Morning To You! (Vanilla and Coffee RIS) Congratulations to the winners. David will go on to…

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    LAGERS End of Year Survey Results 2020

    Hey LAGERS, Thank you all that participated in our end of year survey. With about 28% participation from active members, we were able to get some interesting data. We put together an infographic that was presented during the January meeting that you all seemed to really enjoy. Several of you asked us to do it again next year so we’ll think of some more interesting questions to ask. Hopefully these results can entice more people to take the survey next year. A link to the infographic can be found below. https://drive.google.com/open?id=14w7riIXct4RWATISCpeB65qXHDEJ9Yc6