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jward wrote:Looks like I should try to keep up on the forum better.

Yep, come out to the next meeting on Tuesday and redeem yourself.

-Calvin

I volunteered as a judge. Since this is a high alcohol beer competition, I am regretting this already. In my opinion, we need about 5-8 judges.

-Calvin

Reminder: send in your entries.

-Calvin

Bringing a smoked RIS. It's one of the beers I am submitting in the comp with OC Mashups. See you all there.

From my knowledge, gluten free is only achieved from grains without gluten: corn, rice, sorghum, buckwheat, millet and quinoa (maybe more). Additives, like White Labs' Carity Ferm, only break down gluten (and a bunch of other proteins). Filtering is also not reliable. Just don't be fooled into servi...

I got a table in the patio area. It's pretty crowded.

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Hi all. Calvin here. Going to set up things at Left Coast in Irvine for us South OC people. I'll leave GameCraft for the scheduled meeting since they are still fairly new and may need time to get more house taps out. Hope you all like BBQ and beer. Address is below: 6652 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, ...

To those interested. I will try to get answers on Sunday.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L367T3G

-Calvin

I work in Irvine. I wonder if people are up for a beer trip between meetings. Some places can be:

Left Coast
GameCraft (pre-lim meet)
Backstreet Brewery
TAPS
TAPS Barrel Room

I would like to hang out around places there if there is interest.

-Calvin

Is there a competition committee for this? I am interested in helping to set up things.

-Calvin

BJCP stuff was brought up on Thursday. When I trained, Jim Wilson, Grand Master II BJCP judge, gave me this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xepzya-2OXZwCf-yZGvMMBQT8AUdr_J1/view?usp=sharing It's a vocab sheet I use for judging beer. I hope it helps for those were talked about and were interested. ...

This is my neighborhood. I got some beer to share. See you all there.

I don't know about "soapy" for hops. I tasted that off-flavor before but I cannot attribute it to hops. Was the beer fatty, slick, cheesy, or detergent-like? It can be hop storage or water profile that leads to that off-flavor, in my experience. For hops in the whirlpool, hop bursting, or ...

I have not changed mine in over 5 years. I have no leaks and no other problems.

I use keg lube on my seals and keep my kegs in a chest freezer almost all the time.

Top- and bottom-fermenting are old terms for yeast when modern tech is involved. Modern cylindrical-conical fermentation tanks (FT) should have yeast suspended all within the tank if things are done correctly (stratification if you want to look that up). Natural convection occurs in FTs due to gas n...