November 2018 Meeting Agenda

Rock Hoppers Brew Club Agenda

11/08/2018 6:45 PM – C.B. & Potts, Highlands Ranch

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Recruiting a new paid member will earn you a free entry into the 2019 Bière de Rock competition in January.

Rock Hopper Pro-Am Page

Reminder: January Meeting – Rescheduled to 3rd Thursday (Jan 17)

Brewery Bus Tour recap!

November 29 – Hopper Happy Hour

December 13 Meeting – Hopper Holiday Bottle Share!

No homebrew.
No crappy beer – bring something you’d want to drink.
Two bottle max.
$10 per bottle minimum.
Wrap each bottle to conceal what it is.
White Elephant style gift exchange – each bottle can only be stolen twice.
Wear your ugly sweaters!
The Golden Ticket:
- Awarded to Best Sweater (popular vote).
- Steal at any time.
- Does not trump the double-steal rule.

BJCP Study Sessions

Visit the competitions page for more info.

Past Competitions

October 20, 2018 – Brew Hut Homebrew Competition, Aurora, CO

218 entries
Best of Show Winner for Beer – John Horton!
Best in Show Winner for Mead/Cider – Dax Rush!
Heavy Medal Club!
John Horton
- 2nd in IPA – American IPA – “Dump Truck”
- 1st in American Ale – American Pale Ale – “Flat Bed” – Pro-Am with Dry Dock Brewing
Geoff Humphrey
- 2nd in Belgian Ale – Biere de Garde – “Fetchez la Vache”
Ed Moore
- 1st in Dark International/Euro Beer – Baltic Porter – “Miss Kitty Baltic Porter”
- 1st in Pale, Amber, and Brown British Beer – Dark Mild – “Rhonda English Mild”
Dax Rush
- 1st in Cider and Mead – Semi-Sweet Mead – “Sparkles Taught Me Everything I Know”
- 3rd in Wild and Sour – Lambic – “Mary’s Little Lambic”
Doug Thiel
- 2nd in Strong Ale – English Barleywine – “Another Damn Barleywine But Not That Barleywine”
Tom Thorpe
- 3rd in Fruit Beer – “Half Wit Rye”
Phil Whited
- 1st in Wood-Aged Beers – Specialty Wood-Aged Beer – “Oden’s Last Ryed”
- 2nd in Wild and Sour – Wild Specialty Beer – “For The Horse You Grow Much Fonder”

264 entries
Heavy Medal Club 3rd Place
Andrea Freeland (with Randy Freeland)
- 3rd in Fruit Beer – “Capris”
Randy Freeland (with Andrea Freeland)
- 3rd in Bock – Helles Bock – “Ryebock”
- 2nd in Fruit Beer – “Jelly Doughnut Pants”
Geoff Humphrey
- 1st in Dark Lager – Munich Dunkel – “Headlong”
- 1st in Stout – Imperial Stout – “Stalin’s in Skidmarks”
Brian Pramov (with the RHBC Barrel Brew Crew)
- 2nd in Strong Ale – English Barelywine – “Drunken Lullabies”
Dax Rush
- 2nd in Sour Ale – Lambic – “This is Mary’s Little Lamb-ic”
- 3rd in Smoke/Wood-Aged Beer – Specialty Wood-Aged Beer – “The Russians Stuffed This Barrel”
Phil Whited
- 3rd in Sour Ale – Wild Specialty Beer – “Long Time Coming”

Upcoming Competitions

Intra-Club Competitions

See the Intra-club Competition page for the 2018-2019 schedule.
Next meeting: Belgian- and French-Style Ales
- Quarterly intra-club competition in preparation for Biere de Rock and the Big Beers, Belgians, and Barleywines homebrew competitions.
- All entries should be true to the declared style.
- No wood-aged, fruit, sour, funk, or spice variants for this quarterly comp.
This meeting: Fantasy Brewing Draft beers.
- Winners chosen Best of Show style – blind to the brewer’s name – by fellow Hoppers Doug Thiel (BJCP Judge) and Matt Lawlor (Pro Brewer).
- Judges were provided a list of each entry’s drafted ingredients.