Zymurgists of the Ozarks Leadership
Meeting Minutes
4/15/13

Title:   Leadership Meeting
Location:   Coffee Ethic
Date:   04/12/13

Time:  8:00pm

In attendance: Ben (Pres), Keith (VP), Ed (Secretary) Kassidy (Media Director)

Ben ordered the checks for our account and they have been received.  Ben will bring them to the next meeting and give them to Todd.

Events:

Mother’s Day at the Mothers Brewery:  May 18^th 1-6pm.  Ben will contact Mothers and work out the details.  We will more than likely not be brewing due to the nature of the event.  We do need to have printed materials and brewing samples available.

Happy Birthday Springfield:  April 27^th on the Square 11am-5pm, Sponsored by TAG.  TAG has reserved us a spot.  Kassidy will be brewing an extract beer.  We need volunteers to help man the booth.  Please contact Kassidy.

Big Brew Day/Zoo Family BBQ/Homebrew Store open house:  May 4^th at the Homebrew Store in Ozark.  Brewers can arrive anytime after 10:00am.  Family BBQ from 3-6pm.  All members need to bring a dish.  We need volunteers to brew at the following times:

10:00am – All Grain

12:00am – Extract or All Grain (Ben)

2:00pm – Extract

We want to do this in stages so there is someone brewing all the time.

Promotional Ideas:  Kassidy will look into the prices of promotional items and T-shirts.

ZOO Flyers:  Keith will look into the price of printing this from a actual printer versus printing them at home.

Medals:  All medals have been sent out to our winners from our last competition.  Keith is looking into the price of creating a medal that is our actual logo instead of a generic medal with our name printed on it.

BJCP certification:  We will start looking into setting classes up

Banner:  Keith as approval to order a 6’x2.5 foot banner

Membership cards:  The design has been approved.  Ed is looking into adding a QR code.  This will be completed by the May meeting.

Fall Competition:  Talk with Mothers to see if they would be interested in taking the winners brew to GABF pro-am.  We need more interest in the Competition Comittee.

Hoppy St Patrick’s:  We need to follow up with Aston and find out if he is for sure taking our BOS to the GABF pro-am.

Meeting adjourned: 9:55pm

Title:   Regular Monthly Meeting      
Location:   Springfield Brewing Company      
Date:   1/15/2013      
            
Zymurgists of the Ozarks

Officers: Ben Stange (Pres), Michael Pittman (PR Director), Keith Bachman (VP), Ed Schneiderheinze (Secretary) Todd Frye (Treasure), Kassidy Polete (Media Director)

Attendees:  12

Guest:  Ashton Lewis from Springfield Brew Co

Grab a beer, grab a chair, brief social time   Springfield Brewing Co

Call to order   Ben 8:53pm

September Meeting Minutes:  Ed S.

Minutes read and accepted

Old Business:  Ed S.

None

Dues - $25 per year to be voting member - paid membership to vote for 2/3 majority.   Ben

Motion: Ed

2nd: Keith

Passes:  100%

New Dues are effective immediately, payable to Todd Frye.

Competition Committee Update   Keith Bachman

Hoppy St Patrick Comp:  To do list:

• Confirm Judges – Ashton Lewis has confirmed
• Create an advertisement flyer to hang up around town
  • Completed by Keith
• Talk with Todd about a winners package – Keith
  • $25 Home brewery gift certificate to all 1^st place winners
• Talk with Matt Loll about etched glass mugs – Ben
• Look into the cost of medals – Ed
• Speak to Ashton Lewis about possible GABF pro/am entry for Best of show – Keith
  • Ashton has agreed to this.  This is not a guaranteed entry.  Ashton will evaluate the top three places from best in show and determine if he would like to work with the brewer for a GABF entry.

Update - Logo Design - vote for approval   Ben

Motion: Todd

2nd: Michael

Passed:  100%

Future events: Big Brew, Do Good, ZOO BBQ, etc.   

Each event will be moved to old business for future discussion

Finalized list - Education themes for this year   Michael

Completed:  These are on the website

Call for any new business by members   All

Beer, Wine, Cheese and Chocolate fest Feb 9th for 12-5pm.  We do have a free both but all participants need to purchase a ticket.  Anyone interested in representing the Zoo please see the forums.

Education portion - Hop Lobster Game/tour 

Ashton Lewis conducted a fine tour of his facilities and presented the Hop Lobster game.  If anyone is interested in Ashton’s challenge to brew the Hop Lobster see the forums.  Their current batch should be available in the next 2 weeks for tasting.  A special thanks to Ashton for hosting our club at the Springfield Brew Co and answering all of our questions.

Social Period of club - beer tasting, feedback, etc.   All

Registration for our founding members is over, below is the list of all who met the requirements.  We have 15 total:

Tim Rosse, Charles Hedin, Mike Zalewski, Ed Schneiderheinze, Ben Stange, Greg Knight, Todd Frye, Michael Pittman, Eric Johnson, Keith Bachman, Andrew Steiger, Todd Rock, Daniel Routh, Mike Rupp, Nathan Oberle.

Adjourned: 10:15

Zymurgists of the Ozarks Leadership
Meeting Minutes
1/13/2012

Title: Leadership Meeting
Location: Brew Co
Date: 1/13/2012
Time: 8:00pm

In attendance: Ben (Pres), Michael (PR Director), Keith (VP), Ed (Secretary)

Officers: Ben (Pres), Michael (PR Director), Keith (VP), Ed (Secretary)
Todd (Treasure), Kassidy (Media Director)

2013 Dues: We will bring the dues cost of $25 to the founding members on the next meeting Jan 15th. If approved, dues will go into effect at that meeting.

Logo Design: The new logo will be voted on at the Jan 15th meeting

2013 Meeting Themes: This has been posted on the website and forums and approved by the leadership

Big Brew Day: Date is uncertain at this time, it will be in May. Speak with Todd about doing a customer appreciation day in conjunction. This will also be the Zoo Spring Family BBQ

Do Good: This was brought up but no specific discussion took place. Table for future meetings.

Hoppy St Patrick Comp: To do list:
• Confirm Judges – Ashton Lewis has confirmed
• Create an advertisement flyer to hang up around town
• Talk with Todd about a winners package – Keith
• Talk with Matt Loll about etched glass mugs – Ben
• Look into the cost of medals – Ed
• Speak to Ashton Lewis about possible GABF pro/am entry for Best of show – Keith

Officers need to be listed on all meeting minutes for legal reasons

April Meeting will be held at Mother’s. Education will be tasting beer.

Meeting adjourned at 9:45pm

Zymurgists of the Ozarks            Meeting Minutes            10/16/2012

Location: The Home Brewery
Date:   10/16/2012
In attendance: 12

7:30 PM -  7:45 PM   0:15   Grab a beer, grab a chair, brief social time – Todd Frye

7:45 PM  -  7:50 PM   0:05   Call to order – Ben Called to order at 7:45pm

7:50 PM  - 7:55 PM   0:05   September Meeting Minutes – Ed

*There were no meeting minutes from September.  October will be the first meeting minutes.

7:55 PM  - 8:05 PM   0:10   New Business – Dues Amendments and dues this year – Ben and Keith

*Ben explained the new change to the bylaws to allow dues to be prorated and collected in January of each year.  Motion: Ed/2nd: Greg Vote: 100% pass

*Ben explained the dues of $10 for the rest of this year.  He explained that it allows a little seed money for the club to cover small cost.  He also allow the leadership committee to develop a plan for dues for next year and what they will be used for.  Motioned and 2nd:  Pass 100%.  Anyone who pays dues before Jan 1 2013 will be considered a Founding member; this will be displayed on their membership card. Dues collections started at this meeting.

8:05 PM  - 8:10 PM   0:05   New Business – Competition Committee – Keith

*Signup sheets were passed around for this committee

8:10 PM  - 8:15 PM   0:05   New Business – Requesting Volunteers – Teach a friend to Homebrew Day. Signup sheet – Michael

*Signup sheets were passed around for this event

8:15 PM  - 8:20 PM   0:05   New Business – Requesting Volunteers – Ozarks Beer Fest . Signup sheet – Todd Frye

*Signup sheets were passed around for this event; cost of the event is $25 in advance and $30 at the door

8:20 PM - 8:25 PM   0:05   New Business – Taking recommendations for education efforts/themes for 2012/2013 meetings.  Please submit your recommendations to Michael Pittman – Michael

*This was discussed; any ideas need to be submitted to Michael.  We also need volunteers to do the education portion of the meeting.  This will be held to 15-20 minutes each meeting.

Membership cards were shown to the members.  The design was passed with 100% of the votes.  Ed will start making membership cards for the people who paid at the October meeting.  These will be available at the next meeting.

The idea of having a separate table for people who want real feedback for their beer was discussed.  It was done this meeting as a trial and seemed to be well accepted.  In the future if you want to have real feedback for your beer there will be a table set aside with tasting cards.  Please feel free to leave your beer there and to also taste and judge the other beers on this table.

8:45 PM         Social Period of club – beer tasting, feedback, etc. – All

At last night’s meeting, we discussed a few ideas for the club in the near future, and we met a couple of new members.

First of all, the AHA Big Brew is coming up on May 5th.  We discussed organizing that day at The Home Brewery to participate in the brew day.  Those willing or interested in participating, please email (homebrewzoo [at] gmail dot com) and let me know so that we can keep a tally of who will be involved.  The Big Brew Day has extract and all-grain versions of two brown ales this year.

We also discussed participating in the August 2012 Club-Only competition.  The category is porter, and covers BJCP category 12 styles.  In order to have your beer considered to represent the club, please note that you must bring a brewed version of your submission to our June meeting.  We will have a blind tasting at that meeting and vote to see which ale will represent our club at the competition.  This deadline allows enough time that the winner of our in-club competition will have time to re-brew before the August 10th deadline should they feel it is necessary.

We discussed the creation of this site and the addition of club forums to the site during the meeting, as well.  Eric has done an excellent job putting together the site so far, so we are excited to see what is coming.

Also at this meeting, I reminded everyone that the June meeting’s theme is Saison/Farmhouse ales.  I distributed copies of a simple Saison recipe to all members who expressed interest in brewing for the meeting.  That recipe will follow the meeting minutes in this post.

It was mentioned in the meeting that the monthly themes are currently nearly meaningless, and that it would be nice to have some sort of information at the beginning of the meeting relating to that month’s theme.  For instance, as next month’s theme is IPA, it would be of a benefit to the group to have someone teach a bit about what that category means at the beginning of April’s meeting.  If you would like to volunteer to teach the IPA segment, please email me at homebrewzoo [at] gmail dot com.

We also drank and had fun.

Here is the Saison recipe I distributed to the group during the meeting last night:

Notes:

This yeast likes it hot. Fermentation temps of 95F are not unheard of using a Saison yeast. This creates a spicier profile for the beer overall. If you do not wish to use this yeast, a starter can be made from the dregs of your favorite saison.

The efficiency used to calculate this recipe is 70%.  You may need to adjust your version of this recipe to allow for your system’s efficiency.

To make an extract version of this recipe: For an extract version, simply substitute 6 lbs of light dry extract for the 10 lbs of Belgian Pilsen malt and steep the munich malt.  If you do not wish to steep your grains, simply sub in an additional .5 lbs of dry extract for the munich malt.

About the base malt: This recipe was formulated with software which has limited options for malts.  I recommend a pilsen malt as the base, and will probably use a Belgian pilsen in my version.