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June 13, 2018 44 people attended Next Meeting: July 9, 2018
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17 DIFFERENT BLONDES
MULTIPLE BREWING STYLES
ALL GRAIN
EXTRACT
PARTIAL MASH
KETTLE ON THE STOVE TO ELECTRIC ALL IN ONE
It is truly amazing the differences we saw with the exact same
recipe being brewed 17 different times.
Congratulations to:
First Place: ALEX MACINTOSH
Second Place: DAVE RUFINO
Third Place: RYAN KOPP
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MEMBERSHIP BROKE THE 50 MARK
54 TOTAL RIBS MEMBERS
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HOMEBREW CON 2019
PROVIDENCE, RI
MUST BE AN AHA MEMBER TO ATTEND
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PSA: FREE CLUB INSURANCE
If 75% of our members are AHA members we get free club liability insurance! Join RIBS and Join AHA and list RIBS as your affiliation!
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25 piece screen print minimum
12 piece shirt embroidery minimum
12 piece hat embroidery minimum
SIGN UP NOW FOR THE END OF THE SUMMER ORDER!
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LETS ALL ENTER OUR BLOND ALES IN OUR NEIGHBORS HOMEBREW COMPETITION - THE MERRIMACK VALLEY HOMEBREWERS COMPETITION. DEADLINE JULY 6TH!
TALK TO JAKE OR JAMIE FOR A POSSIBLE DROP OFF RUN
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MEMBER OF THE MONTH
This month it's Dave Rufino - Runner up for this month's Blonde Ale Challenge. A family man, musician (French Horn) and avid home brewer. Click the pic for all the deets about Dave's brewing history and to get some insights into his system and processes.
CHEERS DAVE!
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NEW FACES
QUINN BYRAN: Beloved bartender at The Guild, interested in brewing up some Mead.
LISA AND DERREK: Looking forward to Retiring and drinking some good home made beer. They just need to know how to do it. Make the beer that is.
STEVE: Found us at the steelyard and ius friends with Josh Montero
BECKETT: Jake and Jamie's Sister/Sister in Law Helped brew the "One Night Stout" and loves to try new beer
BRIAN: Brewing it up 5 gallons at a time. Like IPA's and Strong Ales and is looking to up his game. (You found the right group my friend!)
PAM: Brian's support staff. What would we do without our better halves?
JUAN: Thought Buttonwoods was open and wanted a beer. Ha, Fooled you! Turned out to be homebrewer so he stuck around and joined up! Cheers!
CLINT: Wanted to buy some supplies from Tessiers but Ed was here. Juan said come on by this is cool, so he did! Small state huh?
WELCOME TO OUR NEW GUESTS!
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GROUP HONEY BUY
- (1) Raspberry and (2) Orange Blossom buckets full
- Another order will happen around august
- Contact Jamie via email or slack to get in on it!
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WARPED POURS HOMEBREW FESTIVAL
- A very cool event that will happen again next year
- Book your campsites early - they sell out fast
- Attended by Alex, Beckett, Chris, Jake, Jamie and Zac!
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MINI MAKER FAIRE
- A big shout out to Chris Meringolo for organizing this event
- Chris brewed a Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse clone
- Jamie brewed a Pale Lager with MacGyvered smoke infusion system
- Attended by Charlie, Chris, Jake, Jamie, John, Lana, Patrick and Rich.
- Thank you to all who made the RIBS presence possible!
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TASTE OF THE BAY
- What a beautiful night to serve home brew by the bay
- We had ten taps of Beer, Mead, and Cider to serve
- Tori, Jamie, Mike and Josh attended
- We had a lot of compliments and were asked to come back next year
- Cheers!
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BREAKFAST DAY
- The 7th Annual Event
- Breakfast food and beer all day till you cant take any more
- A Steinbeer was brewed - what a sight to see
- A beer boiled with hot rocks - SAY WHAT?
- An excellent day with many friends!
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WATER CHEMISTRY TALK
DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED
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INTRA-CLUB RECIPE CHALLENGE
- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Ingredient Swap
- Brew the beer to spec BUT...
- Swap out the C60 for another adjunct
- Competition date TBD
- Official recipe TBD
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IRON BREWER
- A bracketed year long single elimination home brew competition
- Just like Iron Chef - each bracket has special ingredients
- Rich Spoehr is heading this up
- Click the pic for the link to the slack channel to keep up to date and see all the deets
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CRAFT BREW RACES
- RUN SWEAT AND BEERS
- 5k Run and Brewfest
- RIBS will have a booth (Serving spots are full)
- RIBS has a running team
- TEAM: RIBS
- PASSWORD: ribsrunning
- Click the pic to sign up
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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
- If you're not on it you should be
- 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 open
- 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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