The June meeting will be at the Polish White Eagle Club in Turner on Thursday, 6 June with an education session on hops, and our raffle will be giving away lots of hops and hoppy beers. There’s also the six pack swap and our first swap meet.

Plus we’re raffle off the kegerator at this meeting! So come along and don’t forget to bring your beer to share!

The education session will involve a conversation about Hops. Details direct from the good doctor: “The Naked Hop…Steely Dan strips hops bare and we speak of things odd and esoteric with methods old and new of adding that spice…scrap the old actually”.

Canberra Brewers’ Cypher Brewing Co launch

Join us at Cypher Brewing Co on Saturday June 8 for the launch of Pat’s Melting Point Red IPA!

After winning the best of show at the recent Cypher club competition, Pat had the privilege of working with Cypher’s head brewer Matt Thiele to scale up and brew his beer on the premises – 1500L of it!

Pat worked with Matt and his assistant brewer, Aidan, helping haul in 484kg of grain and 7kg of hops. Final gravity is still pending, but we’re looking at a rich, malty, piney/resinous red IPA at about 7%. The beer was fermented with yeast taken from the batch of Cypher draft that the club helped brew a few weeks back, so thanks to the club for helping with the yeast starter!

Let us know (on facebook) if you can make it and we’ll book a couple of tables.

The next club meeting is just round the corner on 2 May 2024 at the Polish White Eagle Club.

This meeting will be a “Special General Meeting” to deliver the Finance report for the previous financial year.

  • Education: Keeping on the theme of “More than IPA” this May we talk about sours. And who better to lead the talk than Adrian Ison (Adi). Adi will talk about things sour in general yeast ranching and hopefully share some of his award winning skill set.
  • Raffle: We will have a range of interesting and exciting prizes on offer.
  • Six Pack Swap: is on again and it’s a great way to try new styles, practice judging and receive feedback on your brews. Sign up on FB or on the forum.
  • Kegerator Raffle: There’s still plenty more opportunities to earn tickets in the kegerator raffle, by attending the meeting, bringing along your beers and putting your beer into the six pack swap… easy!

Upcoming Events

4 May 2024 – Cypher Brew Day

Chuck has lined up a great experience as we have our first brew day with Matt and co. at Cypher Brewing. The day kicks off at 8:30 with a brewery tour and we will be following the Cypher crew as they brew one of their beers.

Cost is $35 for members ($50 for non members) which includes a breakfast muffin, lunch, four guided tastings and a pint of either Lager, Shooeys or Bitter.

Sign up on the forum https://tinyurl.com/CypherBrewDay2024 or on the FB Members page https://fb.me/e/1WCuPwehs

19 May 2024 – Club bike ride: Giro d’Caipital

The next Club Bike Ride will be starting and finishing at Capital Brewing. More details to come.

15 June 2024 – Club Competition

The next competition is coming up soon, so don’t forget to register your entries and sign up to judge or steward here https://canberrabrewers.brewingcompetitions.com/

The emphasis of this competition is to provide and receive informed, technical feedback. This will help you iron out any issues in your brews and prepare your brews for the ACT competition in September and assist you to qualify for the national championships (AABC).

Nic and Ed have scheduled a full day of judging (morning and afternoon flights) at the wonderful Zierholz venue in Fyshwick) and food and rewards will be provided to volunteers.

There are 12 categories from the 2022 AABC Styles will be judged including:

  • Pale Lager
  • Amber and Dark Lager
  • Amber Ale
  • Stout
  • Wheat and Rye Beer
  • Belgian Ale
  • Strong Ale and Lager
  • Sour and Wild Ale
  • Fruit and Spice Beer
  • Speciality Beer
  • Mead
  • Cider and Perry

As usual, email compsec@canberrabrewers.com.au if you have issues or questions about registration.

The next club meeting is on Thursday night April 4th, at the Polish White Eagle Club.

  • Education: Kurtz is bringing along a special guest – Doug from Three Sons Cider. Doug offers not just an insight to cider, but tastings of various blends from table to full on cider apples. An evening not to be missed… bring your questions.
  • Raffle: We will have a range of interesting and exciting prizes on offer.
  • Six Pack Swap: is on again and it’s a great way to try new styles, practice judging and receive feedback on your brews. Sign up on FB or on the forum.
  • Kegerator Raffle: Plenty more opportunities to earn tickets in the kegerator raffle, by attending, bringing along your beer and putting your beer into the six pack swap… easy!

CBR Brewers & Cypher Brewing Co. Competition

Thanks to the 17 volunteers and the great staff at Cypher Brewing Co for a great first comp of 2024. 

All results and feedback are now available for download on the competition website. We had 48 entries – thanks to all who submitted their beers and great work of the stewards and judges for providing such comprehensive feedback.

The Best of Show award was picked up by Patrick Baggoley for his Red IPA – to be on tap at Cypher Brewing Co later in the year.

Big thanks to Cypher Brewing Co for hosting and sponsoring this competition, and a very big thanks to Nic and Ed for running a smooth operation. Great work everyone!

Upcoming Events

There’s a few more event coming up in the future, don’t forget to lock these into your calendars:

  • 4th May 2024 – International Home Brew Day
  • 8th June 2024 – Club Competition 2

A quick reminder that the club meeting is on next Thursday night March 7, at the Polish White Eagle Club.

AGM

March is also the Club’s Annual General Meeting, where all committee positions are up for re-election. Full details are available on the forum here.

Education

Kurtz will be talking about (in his words) a recent “3-way experiment”… but one that involved 2.2kg of low-sulphur grape pomace in a sour beer.

Hops

Weenie has generously sourced a range of Yakima Chief hops (56g/2oz packs), these will be given away free to members at the door (limit of 2 per person).

The Regulars

  • There’s a bunch of swag available in the raffle
  • Sign up for the Six Pack Swap on FB or on the forum
  • Don’t forget you’ll get entries in the Kegerator Raffle by attending, bringing along your beer and putting your beer into the six pack swap… easy!

CBR Brewers & Cypher Brewing Co. Competition

Don’t forget to get your entries in for the first competition for the 2024 season, sponsored by Cypher Brewing Co who will brew the Beer of Show entry with the winning brewer.

  • Entries close March 8, with entry drop offs closing on March 9. Nic and Ed are also conveniently collecting entries at the March meeting
  • Don’t forget to sign up to judging or steward on the day, which will be at Cypher Brewing in Gungahlin on March 16.
  • Full details are available here

See you next week!