B.I.E.R. Meeting Minutes - 8-26-2015
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Location:
Chesapeake Brewing Company in Crisfield, MD
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Attendance:
Justin Babcock, Ernie Bowden, Henry Burth, Mark Bushman, Bob Clark, Gabe
Garde, Matt Norwood, Josh Owens,
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Pear Extract Homebrew Tasting Session:
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Mark Bushman’s:
§
Plonde ale - Munich, magnum, T58 dry
saison yeast, seeds of paradise. Pear extract 2 lbs.
§
Plale ale - Munich, magnum, us 05,
juniper berries, mosaic dry hops, pear extract 2 lbs.
§ double
Plale ale - same as above but 4 lbs of pear extract.
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Gabe Garde’s:
§ Pear
Saison
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Ernie Bowden:
§ Pear-Apple
Ale
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Justin Babcock
§ Pear
Hefeweizen
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Josh Owens
§ No pear
beer (loser) – instead brought some BetrothAle…
o
Overall notes: The saison yeast from both varieties tends to
lend itself very well to the pear flavor, and helps accentuate it. The apple-pear also tended to do this quite
well, and was fermented with a lower attenuating English Ale strain, so as to
maintain some of the sugars from the extract.
The double Plale ale finished quite sweet, but definitely had a noticeable
pear flavor. Some thought this was more
than the saison’s, some thought less.
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Open forum discussion with Dave (head brewer)
from Chesapeake Brewing Company included the following topics:
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Scaling up recipes from small batches to larger
ones and the lack of linearity in doing so
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BAM (Brewer’s Association of Maryland) meetings
and their effort to help get more breweries established in the state and help
push through new legislation to make it easier on existing and future breweries
operating in Maryland.
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The distribution system for professional
breweries and differences between Maryland and Virginia. Also discussed were the zoning regulation
differences between the states (Virginia appears to be more state-controlled,
while Maryland appears to be more county regulated.)
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All of the different taxes that are required by
the states and the federal government.
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