Upcoming Events
The May meeting will be our last formal meeting before taking the summer off. However, we have a lot of events coming up; check back here for more information…
Big Brew for National Homebrew Day - Saturday, May 5th at the Columbus Brewing Company brewery (behind the restaurant). Participants (open to any homebrewer, not just SODZ members) show up and get wort for a batch of American brown ale. CBC will mash, collect, and distribute wort; participants provide hops and yeast. You don’t have to follow the recipe listed; feel free to alter it as you see fit. Bring everything you need to boil and chill your wort. Water will be provided, but you’ll need your own chiller. SODZ is providing a hog roast; bring a side dish to share.
May SODZ Meeting — Monday, May 14th, 7 pm at the Elevator Brewery
Iron Kettle Homebrew Challenge — June 2nd at Chateau Le France. See Dan France or Vic Gonzales for details
Digfest in Grandview — June 16th at The Grandview Yard. SODZ will be doing a brewing demonstration and have a booth to talk to people about homebrewing. If you’re interested in drinking beer and talking to homebrewers, contact me and I’ll add you to the list. There will also be a homebrewing competition which will be judged that afternoon; winners will be announced at the event. The competition is free to enter; you can register here.
Ohio State Fair Homebrewing Competition — Start planning and brewing now. The registration deadline is June 20th; entries are due July 9-13th
SODZ Summer Picnic – TBD in July at the France compound in St Louisville. More info coming soon…
May Meeting
The May meeting is going to be at the Elevator Brewery at 165 N. 4th St. at 7 pm, Monday May 14th. We’ll meet at the Elevator restaurant (161 N. High St) at 6 pm for a bite to eat and walk over to the brewery for the meeting. See you then!
April Meeting
The April meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 23rd at 7:00PM:
Barley’s Smokehouse & Brewpub
1130 Dublin Road
Columbus, OH 43215
The room will be available by 6:00 so show up early and grab something to eat.
We will be judging Scottish and Irish Ales for the Club Only competition. If you would like to enter, please bring a sample to the meeting.
As always, please be discreet.
March Meeting
The March meeting will be Monday the 19th at the Winking Lizard at Crosswoods. As usual, the meeting will start at 7, but we’ll arrive at 6 and get something to eat. We’ll be in the room in the back; please be discreet with homebrew. See you then!
Ben
February Meeting
This month’s meeting will be February 20th at Barley’s Ale House, 467 North High St, downtown Columbus (or maybe that’s still technically the Short North…). The meeting will be downstairs. Typical meeting stuff – meeting starts at 7, but we’ll get there around 6 to get a beer and something to eat. See you then.
Stir Plate Raffle
This could be yours if you come to the January meeting! I’m talking about the stir plate and the flask, anyway (the mixer stays). We’re raffling off a brand new stir plate, 2 liter flask, and two stir bars – everything you need to step up your yeast management. We’ll be selling tickets for $1.00 a piece, so bring a little extra cash and take your brewing to the next level.
BBF Competition
The BBF Competition page is up to date, and the registration site is up and running. You have until February 17th to register, but you probably shouldn’t wait that long to start brewing.
January Meeting
The January meeting will be at the Old Bag Of Nails pub in Westerville on January 16th at 7pm. Most of us will arrive early (6pm) to get something to eat and a beer before the meeting. The meeting is upstairs; ask a bartender if you’ve never been to a meeting there. It’s homebrew friendly, but please be discreet. See you there!
November Meeting
Due to a conflict at Gordon Biersch, we have re-scheduled our meeting to Wednesday, Nov. 16th. Sorry for any inconvienence.
While the official meeting starts at 7:00pm, we have the back room reserved from 6:00pm on so anyone who likes can show up early and have some dinner or appetizers. This is the best way we can show thanks to Gordon Biersch for offering us a free meeting location. This location is more open than some of our other places, so while we can bring homebrew to this meeting, we need to be extra low key about it.
Finally, at this meeting we will be judging Weizens for our entry into the Club Only competition. If you have a beer that fits into BJCP category 15 (http://www.bjcp.org/
New SODZ Year, September Meeting
Ahhhhh yes, time to stretch and shake off the summer break, and get ready for SODZ to “start back up” this fall. Of course, we haven’t exactly stopped. Despite no meetings for June, July, and August, we’ve been busy with the Iron Kettle, the club Picnic, brewing, etc. The board met up this past Monday to get our ducks in a row, and it looks like we’ve got some good things planned for the group. Our next meeting is going to be at The Elevator on Monday September 19th. The meeting will be at their brewery on 4th Street (165 N 4th St) — you can’t miss it; they have a gigantic tap handle above the front door… which is painted to look like a glass of beer. The meeting will start at 7, but most of us will stop at the Elevator restaurant (161 N High St) around 6 for dinner and a couple pints. If for some reason you’ve never been to the Elevator, you, again, can’t miss it. The sign for the restaurant is a ~10 ft tall beer with lights on it. Subtlety is their signature…
I’m looking forward to getting back into our monthly meetings. I’ll see you all at the Elevator.
Ben
