Here is a summary of the March 24, 2010 Westchester Homebrewers’ Meeting:
Ken Hettinger, V.P., gave an excellent presentation on ‘Using CO2′. He demonstrated using a CO2 tank for transferring liquids, as opposed to siphoning; for purging air from carboys and kegs to delay oxidation spoilage; forced carbonation as an alternative to bottle conditioning; and finally bottling. Thank [...]
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March 2010
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Meeting – July, 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009Tonight’s meeting was well attended, as an impromptu and popular topic had been decided upon the previous week: Belgian beer. Unfortunately Phil couldn’t make the meeting to tell of his recent visit to Belgium. Hopefully we’ll get a nice presentation, or at least some good stories, at the August meeting.
Members brought many commercial Belgian beers, [...]
June Meeting “Mashing”
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Submitted by Ken Hettinger, Westchester Home Brewers for the June Meeting
Information gathered from books and internet * A special thanks to John Palmer*
HISTORY OF MASHING
4300 BC: Babylonian clay tablets detail recipes for beer. The Babylonians were producing beer in large quantities with around 20 varieties.
“The Hymn to Ninkasi”
The artifact shown here, dating to 1800 BC, [...]
Meeting – May, 2009
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009May 27, 2009, 7 PM
Held at Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
From Ken Hettinger:
As usual the beer brought to last night’s meeting was great. There were too many to remember what they were and who brewed them, which leads me to think we should have a sign in list each meeting listing the beer samples so we [...]