Club News
Featured Brewer – Alex Smith
Name: Alex Smith Age: About half century Occupation: Computer hardware design manager at Intel Corporation (remote). Years Brewing: Almost 16 as far as I can remember. Brewing History: Started extract around 2007, although was quickly relegated to the garage after other family members objected to the hop aroma. Switched to brew-in-a-bag (BIAB) all-grain about two years ago, … Continue reading
Brewer of the Year Scoring System
Here is the current version of the scoring rules: FLOPS_BOTY_MOTY_POINTS
Featured Brewer – Randy Germann
Name: Randy Germann Age: 58 Occupation: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sr. SAP Consultant. I lead customers to migrate, upgrade, and optimize SAP workloads in the AWS public cloud. Years Brewing: 26 Brewing History? Started with partial mash and then moved to all-grain a couple years later. For awhile, brewed all-grain and mini-mash with extract. Now, I mostly brew all-grain. What … Continue reading
Featured Brewer: Daniel Stubblefield
Name: Daniel Stubblefield Age: 39 Occupation Systems Inspection Technician A.K.A I work on all things Fire Safety related. Access Control, Fire Alarm, Suppression Systems etc… Years Brewing: 7 Brewing History? Started extract in 2015, moved to all grain shortly after, brewed at Oxbend Brewing from 2019-2021 and now owner of North Tunnel Brewing & … Continue reading
Featured Brewer – James Harvey
Q: Name A: James Harvey Q: Age A: 64 Q: Occupation A: Retired Q: Years Brewing A: About 5. Four back in the late ’80s and early 90’s, then restarted about 1 year ago. Q: Brewing History A: Started extract in late ’80s, moved to all grain in the 2021. … Continue reading
May 2022 Featured Brewers – Brooke and Dylan
Name: Dylan Uecker and Brooke Behmke Age: 29 and 27 Occupation: Engineer & Sales Executive Years Brewing: 1 Brewing History: We have been brewing sours since day 1, even our first beer was a single extract brew kit we added blueberries to and kettle soured in our attic. We fell in … Continue reading
FLOPS Honors local brewing icon – Jack McAuliffe
Brian Sorenson from the Fayetteville Flyer posted a great article about the joint brewing project of Old Toe Sucker, a recipe honoring Jack McAuliffe, performed by Fossil Cove Brewing and the FLOPS Club. https://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2021/12/31/jack-mcauliffe-lends-inspiration-during-special-brew-day-at-fossil-cove/ BREW ON!
Featured Brewer November 2021: Bobby Peppers
Name: BJ Peppers Age: 46 Occupation: Data Science & Analytics Years Brewing: 3 years consistently (3⅔ technically) Brewing History: 1st brew was an all-grain IPA kit that I converted to a pale ale and added orange zest. I did this and my next 3 brews on the stove top. I used … Continue reading
Hops Scheduler Report – April 2021
Thanks to Randy Germann for compiling the content below AHA Events Homebrew Con (Virtual) 6/17 – 6/19: Attendance limited to AHA members. Registration open – Earliest Bird Rate $99 until 4/19. Big Brew Day 5/1: Celebrate May 7th 1988 when Congress announced as National Homebrew Day. BJCP Competitions Summer SMaSH 2021: St. Louis; Registration begins … Continue reading
Notes from the April Monthly Meeting
Brewer of the Month: Kevin Elsken (Russian Imperial Stout) Ass of The Month: Bobby Peppers (Showing up without CO beers but talking for 15 minutes about how good they were and how full the truck was on the way home). Interesting Notes: Points towards Brewer/Ass/Member of the Year have started accruing again. I will publish … Continue reading
