Re: Meeting: next barrel brew

We suggested meeting on Wednesday, Sept 8, to discuss the next barrel brewing project. How about 7:30 at my house? If you can't make it or need directions, let me know. Questions on the table: Do we do two this time? Steve Piatz has volunteered his basement to house one of the barrels (right next to 30 buckets of lambic). What style(s)? A braggot, a Flanders Red or Oud Bruin, an Imperial Stout and a Wee Heavy are among the suggestions. Brewing procedures: Cotton can get us the St. Paul system if we want to brew one together. It conveniently does 55 gallons. Might work especially well for a braggot, since some members of this group have a phobia about extract. Barrel sources: The Wisconsin guy with the 10-year-old premium whiskey barrels may or may not make it to the Autumn Brew Review (he's taking care of his sick father). However, we know it's easy to order from Jack Daniels and get barrels within a week. Or, if anyone wants to make a whiskey barrel run to Madison, Colin at Midwest reports that Tom (the barrel man) is very generous in providing samples of exotic beers -- including trial-run commercial microbrews that have never been released. He seems to have connections in the brewing world. Paul Attachment: BDY.RTF Content-Type: application/rtf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="BDY.RTF" ;Creation-Date="Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:34:43 -0500" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64