Another short Brewvet ride—1.1 miles total—but this trip combines
a visit to local brewery Warped Wing with 
my monthly DRAFT Homebrew Club
meeting (yes, the website is really outdated), as the brewery is kind enough to let our homebrew club meet in the
tasting room every month, something that John Haggerty carries over from his New Holland days. It does help
that former DRAFT member Jeff Fortney is now the head brewer, too. If you’ve
never been to a homebrew club meeting, it is precisely what you’d expect: dudes
drinking and discussing beer. Sometimes, an educational segment gets included—today
there was a brief overview of the new BJCP 2015 guidelines—but that doesn’t always
happen. It can be a bit more esoteric than your average craft beer nerd
discussion—homebrewers tend to know how to make as well as analyze beer—but the
lingo and the attitude are often the same.
my monthly DRAFT Homebrew Club
meeting (yes, the website is really outdated), as the brewery is kind enough to let our homebrew club meet in the
tasting room every month, something that John Haggerty carries over from his New Holland days. It does help
that former DRAFT member Jeff Fortney is now the head brewer, too. If you’ve
never been to a homebrew club meeting, it is precisely what you’d expect: dudes
drinking and discussing beer. Sometimes, an educational segment gets included—today
there was a brief overview of the new BJCP 2015 guidelines—but that doesn’t always
happen. It can be a bit more esoteric than your average craft beer nerd
discussion—homebrewers tend to know how to make as well as analyze beer—but the
lingo and the attitude are often the same. For drinking purposes, I brought along a couple of my recent saisons. In addition to the Dandelion Saison you heard about yesterday, I brought a
bottle of Saison w/ Azacca and Styrian Golding. I hopped it a bit
more aggressively than normal for a saison, but I wanted to be able to get a
sense of the influence of Azacca hops in a beer: they have nice flavor and aroma, but
the bitterness is a slightly unpleasant and a bit harsh in the back of the
throat in the finish. Still, the beer as a whole is dry and very drinkable, and the floral fruitiness from
both yeast and hop in the aroma and flavor makes this beer go down easy. And
best of all, after an evening discussing the intricacies of brewing, home was just a short bike ride away.
(5/18/2015)
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