Author Archives: Greg
March 2023 Meeting Minutes
March 16, 2022 Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville 7:11 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by our 2023 Mug Watcher, Keith Linn. New Attendees None Officer Reports Hop Scheduler NHC entry window closes March 17th. Big Brew Day is May 6th . There will be an event hosted by Doc Farmer. Looking to get … Continue reading
February 2023 Meeting Minutes
February 16, 2022 Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville 7:18 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by our 2023 Mug Watcher, Keith Linn. New Attendees There was a large crowd and due to noise there was some difficulty in catching all the names: Reese Kay Patrick Parker Old Business Lydia was presented … Continue reading
Brewer of the Year Scoring System
Here is the current version of the scoring rules: FLOPS_BOTY_MOTY_POINTS
Oktoberfest – From Randy Germann’s Education Session
Batch Size = 6 gals O.G. = 1.055 F.G. = 1.014 IBU = 25 BU:GU = 0.5 ABV = 5.5% Grain Bill: • Pilsner Malt 3.5# • Munich Malt (10L) 3.5# • Vienna Malt 4# • Caravienne 0.4# Hop Schedule: • German Magnum (14.7% AA) 0.5 oz – 45 mins • German Tettnanger (3.1% AA) … Continue reading
January 2023 – Meeting Minutes
January 19, 2022 Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville 7:13 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by our 2023 Mug Watcher, Keith Linn! Education Meeting opened with an online presentation by Nina Hout of Imperial Organic Yeast (does anyone make inorganic yeast?). She described their facilities and processes for growing and packaging yeast. The session … Continue reading
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
December 2022 Meeting Minutes
December 15, 2022 Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville 7:14 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by Forrest Adams New Attendees Casey and Lydia Gabriel Kim and Tim Ken (former FLOPS member from the 90s) Brandon Old Business Always on the lookout for education topics. Submit ideas to Daniel Stubblefield and/or Patrick Bohannon. Club … 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
November 2022 Meeting Minutes
November 17, 2022 Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville 7:16 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by Forrest Adams New Attendees Parker Bailey Stewart Rogers Alex Smith Old Business Always on the lookout for education topics. Submit ideas to Daniel Stubblefield and/or Patrick Bohannon. Club insurance I paid through August 2023. It seems that … Continue reading
FLOPS October 2022 – Meeting Minutes
October 20, 2022 Fossil Cove Brewery, Fayetteville 7:17 PM – Meeting called to order with toast by Randy Germann ‘Ein Prosit’ New Attendees David – makes meads, mostly Noah – colleague of Daniel, but we refuse to hold that against him Old Business Always on the lookout for education topics. Daniel Stubblefield will be taking … Continue reading
AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competitions
