January Monthly Meeting Minutes

[Ryan Beal]

January Monthly Meeting

Date: Thursday, January 4th, 2024

Location: Shine Beer Sanctuary

Old Biz

• 2023 Year in Review

  • Month of pint nights at MAP, raffle, tours, beer tasting 101

  • Bridger Brewing facility tour in Three Forks

  • Big Brew Day in front of Shine

  • Katabatic Brew Off

  • Iron Brewer - Steve winning with his Koji Lager

  • Spire Rock Campout and Stein beer - earlier this year to avoid the heat

  • Saison group brew day at Ryan’s

  • Crooked Yard hop farm tour

  • Off-flavor tasting

• Club Christmas Party - Thanks to Brandon for hosting. Plenty of food and homebrew to go around.

• Officer Elections - Held at the December meeting/Christmas party. Bruce and Jared are stepping down from their positions. Elected officers for 2024 are shown below. Remaining open positions are VP Membership & Media, Secretary, and Member at Large.

  • President - Evan Rogers

  • VP - Ryan Beal

  • Treasurer - Brandon Whitehead

    
    

    *Steve Culiton - nominated for member at large - unanimous vote in favor

• Iron brewer drawings - Targeting late May for the tasting. Any members that still want to get in on the competition can be assigned an ingredient by officers.

  • Evan - Tangerine

  • Jake - Black Lemon

  • Ryan - Coffee

  • Bob - Jalapeno

  • Brandon - Cinnamon

  • Bruce - Garlic

  • Steve - Maple Syrup

  • Nich - Lavender

    
    

    *Email any of the officers if you want to participate and don’t have an ingredient yet.

New Biz

• Annual membership dues for 2024 are $30.

  Preferred payment method is via the website.

• Club campout and stein beer brew - We have the group site at Spire Rock Campground reserved for June 28-30th. Same spot as last year.

  
  

  *We are looking for a volunteer to lead the brewing effort and decide what kind of beer to make.

  
  

• Open discussion for club events in the coming year. Some possible events:

  • Style tastings

  • Group brew days

  • Brewery tours

  • Malt/Hop tours

  • Educational malt/hop/yeast/water workshops

  • Informal club competitions

    
    

    *Tours at Sawdust and Steel, Zesty and/or WildRye.

    *Revisit Bozeman Brewing or Map Brewing

    *Sourdough Bozeman Water plant

    *Gallatin Valley Malt

    *Club competition Suggestions:

    Everyone brews the same recipe compare process

    Same grain different hops/yeast

    Style comp, your interpretation

    Collab competition

    *Next tasting style, planed to start at the April meeting:

    Dark Malty Lagers

    We will hopefully be able to taste and discuss commercial and homebrew examples.

    
    

    *We are targeting Late May for the iron brewer tasting and we are also looking for a host for this event.

Stout Tasting

• Ryan Beal to lead a tasting and discussion of stouts/porters on tap at Shine.

• We sampled and discussed one milk stout and 2 oatmeal stouts. Ursula Oatmeal stout from Burnt Tree was the overall favorite.