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April 11, 2018 37 people attended Next Meeting: May 9, 2018
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This will be our second Big Brew. It is happening May 5th 11 - 7 at Green Acres Farm in North Smithfield. $10 bucks gets you a souvenier glass and all the homebrew you can drink. It just so happens to be Cinco De Mayo as well so bring your sombreros and get ready for some Mexican Stouts and Mexican Lagers and a variety of all things homebrewed. Bring your brew gear as well if you want to brew a batch with some of your fellow members (please contact Alex if you plan to brew). Ming's Asian Street Food food truck will be on site. Click the pic for all the deets or follow on FB! Hope you can make it!
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MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
We had a huge sure of memebrship renewal and first timers joining up. There were 35 people who committed to the club at the April meeting. You can join too at any time by filling out the application and bring your dues to the next meeting.
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MEMBER OF THE MONTH
This month it's Zac Belanger - Zac moved up here from down south and jumped right in setting up an awesome vanilla bean buy and barrel buy from the distillery he used to work at. What a guy? Did I mention he's single. Click on the pic for the full write up! Congrats Zac!
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NEW FACES
Meredith: Has Brewed Before and this is her first RIBS meeting. A memebr of GPO - Girls Pint out.
Mary Alice: Never brewed herself but is interested. Also a member of GPO
Brian: Has been brewing for a while, likes all styles and found out about us through the OSHC
Keith: Favorite beer is an irish red and he comes to the club through Tessier's Hardware.
Chris: Working on a cider and is friends with Patrick and Molly.
WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS!
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GROUP HONEY BUY
- We will purchase once we have two full buckets
- 60#'s per bucket for a full bucket
- Orange Blossom (40#'s full) or Raspberry (30#'sfull)
- Typical mead batch is 10-15#'s
- Cost is around $4/#
- Contact Jamie via email or slack to get in on it!
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GIRLS PINT OUT
- Tell all your lady friends - Woman Only Beer Club
- Come on out and learn about craft beer
- Check out FB, Instagram, and Twitter to stay in the loop
- We're looking to do some colab event - more to come
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HOMEBREW CON 2019
PROVIDENCE, RI
JUST SAYIN!
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HOMEBREWING 101
- There were 3 RIBS members and 6 participants
- We presented a Step by step walk through of a typical extract brewday
- Also, a discussion of brewing techniques, ingredients and equipment
- And of course samples of various styles of homebrew were enjoyed by all
- Keep your eye on social media for the next event!
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EDUCATION! - BEER's "REAL" HISTORY
- The "Archeology of Beer" - a talk on the real history of beer by Dr. Emily Macintosh.
- We learned about the evolution of beer from 7000bc China to present day
- Quite an eye opener to those of us who thought it started with just bread and water in a pot in Egypt
- Want more info? Its on the way - a copy of the slide show and notes will be made available soon
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SOCIAL, SOCIAL, SOCIAL!
- Its going to be a mostly social meeting after the business
- Please let us know if you want to do a style talk
- Please let us know if you want to do a demonstration
- This is an open club and anything goes
- We are happy to consider all ideas for club meeting activities
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INTRA-CLUB RECIPE CHALLENGE
- Brew your batch for the June 13th meeting.
- Brewing Classic Styles Blonde Ale
- Everyone do the exact same recipe so we can evaluate differences in techniques, water, fermenting, packaging etc...
- Click the image for BYO Blonde Ale style specifics but use the recipe listed below
- Feel free to ask any of us if you have questions
- We will do a BJCP judging tutorial as well
ALL-GRAIN
10 lb. (4.53 kg) US 2-row malt (2 °L)
0..25 lb. (114 g) Crystal 10
0..25 lb. (114 g) Crystal 20
4.1 AAU Willamette hops (60 min) (0.82 oz./23 g of 5% alpha acids) or
substitute with Willamette, Glacier, U.S. Fuggle, U.S. Tettnang or
Styrian Golding hops
Wyeast 1056 (American Ale), White Labs WLP001 (California Ale) or
Fermentis Safale US-05 yeast
EXTRACT
6.3 lb. (2.85 kg) Light liquid malt extract (2 °L),
or substitute 5.1 lbs. (2.3 kg) fresh, light dried malt extract
0..25 lb. (114 g) Crystal 10 (Steep)
0..25 lb. (114 g) Crystal 20 (Steep)
4.1 AAU Willamette hops (60 min) (0.82 oz./23 g of 5% alpha acids)
or substitute with Willamette, Glacier, U.S. Fuggle, U.S. Tettnang,
or Styrian Golding hops
Wyeast 1056 (American Ale), White Labs WLP001 (California Ale) or
Fermentis Safale US-05 yeast
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WARPED POURS HOMEBREW FESTIVAL
- June 2nd at KOA Campground
- We have a 10x20 tent reserved
- $25 per tickets (no freedies this time)
- Supports Home Base and LEO Supoprt Foundation
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IMPERIAL YEAST - KRAUSEN CUP
- Shipping Deadline May 4th
- 300 Entry cap
- 2 Entries per brewer cap
- Best of Show winner will have the opportunity to brew with Baerlic Brewing on their 10bbl brewhouse. The resulting beer will then be entered in the GABF Pro-Am competition
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SUGGEST A COMP
- Have a favorite competition you like entering
- Get invited to comps because of your BJCP status
- Hear about one from a friend....
-LET US KNOW! We'll post, We'll enter, We'll WIN!
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RIBS ACROSS THE US
We are going to work on an interactive"ish" map representing RIBS winning competition medals across the US. This will show our national presence and hopefully encourage the group to put themselves out there and target competitions in empty states. Obviously the goal will be to fill in the map!
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DON'T FORGET THOSE HOUSE FAVORITES
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RIBS RUNNING GROUP
- Somewhat spontaneous
- Run, jog, walk, crawl,...
- C'mon out and have a good time and have a few brews after burning off a few calories
- Follow on Slack and FB for up to date info
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SNACK COMMITTEE
- Thanks to all who brought snacks for the last meeting.
- Check out Fred's awesome Tumeric and Ginger Hummus by clinking on Homer!
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GET YOUR SLACK ON!
- SLACK is a great way to stay connected with members between meetings
- If you're not on it you should be - there is so much that happens and is disucssed
- Recipe design, events, problem solving, etc...
- RIBS Slack URL
- RIBS Slack Signup
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CLOTHING OPTIONAL? SCANDALOUS!
- RIBS apprael is a great way to show your club support!
- The current order is closed and should be ready for Big Brew
- Add your items to the next order form below
- As soon as limits are met we will place the next order
- Pick anything you want, just fill out the order form
- We use J. Mack Studios in Westerly: here are the Catalogues
- Here is the order form
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RIBS FACEBOOK GROUP
- Post about your brewday!
- Post about your location!
- Post about your mom!
- OK well don't do that.
- Just POST!
- Be active and give RIBS a larger social media footprint!
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