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NEWSLETTER March 2015 this is how we run TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 | President’s Message 3 | Next Meeting 4 | AHA Rally Photo Recap 6 | Julian Ciderworks Update 8 | Gadgets : BrewCart Build 12 | Club Only Competitions 13| Great Belgian Christmas Beer Tour 14 | QUAFF Discounts 15 | QUAFF Board In This Photo: Juli Goldenberg wins the Stone AHA Rally with her 24 Carat Golden Strong Page 4 Get Involved! The club is what you make it. • Instagram - @quafforg • Twitter - @quafforg • Facebook - facebook.com/groups/quafforg 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Hello My Fellow Beer Enthusiasts, We Want You! Yes You, Don’t Look Away. We just finished the judging for the NHC 1st Round. A special thanks goes out to everyone Quaff is run by its members. There are about 20 who helped make this a smooth running people who dedicate a little, or a bit more, time operation. A special thanks to Eric and Jenny each month to taking care of the various planning DuRose, Gaaron Varner, Matt Slote and our chef, details that need to be done in order to operate Jered Greenwald. Thank you so much for you the club. The time has come for a few of our efforts in running such a great event. members to take a break and make room for new Good luck to all the members who entered in the people. SD region. Join us on April 28th for our general meeting at Among the positions we need to fill are: Karl Strauss. We’ll have Kelsey McNair to present • Activities Chair “Success in IPA Brewing”. Kelsey should know. • Membership No one has won 4 National Gold Medals in IPA before. This is one of the most hotly contested • I.T. styles and Kelsey has had awesome success with • Bar Czar his IPA. This is a presentation not to be missed. The Activities chair helps to organize our events, A few other reminders for the April meeting: such as club nights, campouts, brew days and • There will be food available, Pizza other random events. Membership is in charge of maintaining the Member list, collecting dues • Bring a camping chair and enjoy the outdoor and providing membership cards and name area. badges. I.T. runs the web site and mail list and • Bring a coat. other items as required. The Bar Czar is in charge • Bring some homebrew to share. It can be for a of maintaining the Quaff bar. This is best done small group or a couple growlers to share with with a few people as a bar committee. There’s no everyone. experience required for any of these positions • Come early and enjoy the great environment other than I.T. We have existing people who can that the Karl Strauss tasting room has created. help you to learn the tasks and then take over. This is a great opportunity for some of our newer That’s about it for now. members to become involved with the club. Thanks, If you have questions or are interested please Larry see me at the general meeting or attend the next board meeting. 2 NEXT MEETING Tuesday, April 28th at 7:00 PM Karl Strauss Brewery Tasting Room 5985 Santa Fe St, San Diego, CA 92109 Feature Presentation: Success In IPA Brewing Presented by Kelsey McNair (North Park Beer Co) Team QUAFF Beer Evaluations Bring 1-2 bottles & your detailed recipe/notes First Friday at Mike Bucks and 6:15pm before the monthly meeting 3 Photo Recap Photos Courtesey of Sheldon Kaplan 4 5 EARLY SPRING UP AT THE RANCH By: Stan Sisson Well, spring has sprung, up Brian Kenner says this is the some fruit ciders, and possibly in Julian. The trees are a riot heaviest blossom load he has a melomel or two. We are of blooms, with the pears and seen in years. We are hoping hoping to line up a source of plums leading the parade. With it leads to a great harvest this local honey, with cysers in mind. the green grass, and happy fall, with lots of variety. If the horses wandering around, it’s plums and apricots have a big quite the pastoral scene. crop, we will consider doing 6 Brian’s son Ian with temporary pots, used to hold some of the nearly 600 trees ordered Brian went crazy ordering trees, I am compiling a list of people credit in the descriptive material IIRC he is planning to put over who have entered ciders using for Julian Ciderworks ciders. I 600 new trees in the ground fruit or juice from Julian, even should have more details about or in temporary pots, if they if they don’t medal. I will be this development in my next need a year of protection before writing an article for the Julian update. going into the ground. Many News about local homebrewers of these are rootstocks that will entering ciders made with A new, higher capacity grinder, be grafted as time permits. All Julian fruit, including giving along with two bladder presses, cider varieties, of course. Here credit to the orchards that are on order for delivery this is Brian’s son Ian with a few of produced the fruit, which Brian summer. They are made by the perry pear trees. is tracking, including data such German company Speidel, we as sugar levels and pH. This will are getting a 90L and 180L We patiently await our licensing, get the Julian orchard owners press in case you want to google hoping to get it before the even more onboard, and result them. This will make pressing apples start ripening, so in more juice and more varieties much easier than the manual we can do some work with available to homebrewers in Correll press we used last other fermentables that can coming years. year. Additional equipment be blended with apples and acquisitions are in the works, pears to make some enjoyable Speaking of other orchards, and will be described down the beverages. If you have requests, several orchard owners in the road. let me know and we’ll see what Julian area have expressed we can do. interest in providing fruit for Exciting times ahead, I will cider making. We plan to give surely have more to share next In case you did not see my email, the orchards providing fruit month. -SS 7 EW’S BREWCART By: Eric Worthington Problem: Keeping all my brewing equipment together and organized. I tend to run around a lot on brewdays fetching what I need from here or there. My previous brewstand I built had most everything attached to it, but after the move I no longer have it. And I plan a different setup. Being mobile for me is idea, wheel everything out and then wheel it all back in. I had the idea of converting a Rubbermaid Commercial Cart for this use. They are rather expensive new (around $300 at HomeDepot) and I just happened to score one off Craigslist for $25. Solution: A all-in-one system for filtering water, storing hardware and mounting both a march pump and plate chiller to to keep things in easy to use positions during extension cord, old work 2-gang brewday. Tools: switch box, red dot waterproof Here’s how I did it. Depending on Drill that can accept up to a 3/8th’s switch plate, GFI outlet, 3/8ths what your budget allows, buy a bit, Wire strippers/cutters, ratchet x 1” bolts w/ washers and nuts new or used Rubbermaid Cart. I or wrenches, chop saw, table saw (10 bolts, 10 nuts, 20 washers for like these because they are very (optional), hand held jig saw, level, the plywood attachment, extras durable and made of plastic. right angle adjustable ruler. for whatever hardware you want Which makes modifying easy. You to mount), I believe I used ¼” can use a metal cart if you wish, bolts for the march pump, 4oz but these directions are for how Thompson water sealer, small tube I built mine. You will need some Materials: of clear silicone sealer. 4 clamps, woodworking knowledge (or know Cart, drill bits (3/8ths and small either C clamps or trigger clamps someone who can spend a bit of enough to bore pilot holes for and you’ll need small zip ties as time helping you out) and basic your screws), ½” plywood with a well. household wiring knowledge. nice veneer (Baltic Ply is ideal), 8 PART I Step 5: Prep the main panel for all the attachments. After you have it in place with the bolts hand Step 1: Obtain cart and assemble tightened down you’ll want to the bottom tray and all four legs mark the opening for the 2gang and attach screws to the base. At box. What I did was place the this point your legs should be in box front end toward the panel, there pretty solid. Attach top but put a small level on top of it and do not screw into place, you’ll be after I decided where I wanted it, taking the top on and off over the I marked off the edges. I actually next few steps. screwed up by buying the wrong box the first time and cut the opening for it, but it doesn’t mate Step 2: Measure for your main to the Red Dot switch panel. Thus I plywood panel cuts. Your cart may had to cover my hole and recut. be different than mine. You want the panel to sit inside the cart and extend past the opening to a Step 6: cut out the gang hole, I point where you’ll be able to attach used a drill bit to drill through the 3/8ths bolts.

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