[Liquidpoets] June LP Meeting

[Liquid Poets President]

Dear Poets and Muses

Our June meeting will be held at the newest Fort Collins brewery Horse &
Dragon
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from
7-9pm on the 5th.

This month’s agenda:

*Beer Social*: For the first half hour of the meeting we hang out, meet and
greet old friends and new members alike. Try other’s homebrew and have
others try yours. Essentially geek out about our hobby for a bit. New
members, keep an eye out for Alison Rosso, she is our new member ambassador
and is happy to introduce you around! And don’t forget, this is a club of
homebrewers and homebrewers homebrew, so please bring in your homemade
fermented beverages to share!

*Tasting Panel*: This is a small break out group that gives each other
direct feedback on the homebrew you bring. This group more in depth and
direct than our beer social portion of the evening, but still not as formal
as other break out groups. If you’d like to get and/or give direct feedback
on homebrew, this is the group for you. If you have homebrew with a defect,
bring it here! This is an excellent opportunity to learn about defects, to
experience them, and to learn how to avoid them in the future.

*BJCP Panel*: This is our newest break out group. If you want to learn how
BJCP judging works and/or how your homebrew might possibly be judged in a
competition. This is the group for you. You can either volunteer to judge
or bring a dedicated bottle of homebrew for the panel to judge or (of
course) both. You’ll sit with the judges and go over a BJCP scoresheet with
them. The’ll give you feedback on all of the qualities of your homebrew
that get scored in a competition, this panel is very fun and quite
informative. I highly recommend it if you are interested in competition.

*Style of the Month*: One of our most popular groups, this group reviews a
different BJCP subcategory every month. In this group you’ll go over the
category, drink some commercial examples and compare them with the
guidelines. Then repeat with beer brewed by club members! If you’re
interested in how BJCP judging works, this is an excellent group to get
involved with.

The style this month is *Melomel*, fruit mead made with any fruit other
than grapes or apples and a testament to what homebrewers can make without
barley. This month's style group will be run by our resident mead expert
Kyle Byerly. He'll bring some commercial examples along with homeberwed
ones. So please join us at the style table to try something truly different
and great.

And don’t forget to brew for the upcoming styles: July is Wit beer. And
August is Munich Helles (perhaps my favorite beer of all time) and I'd love
to see some of you homebrew a batch to share.

Cheers everybody! I can’t wait to see you at the newest Fort Collins
brewery.
Jason L Connor

The Liquid Poets
http://www.liquidpoets.com
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