We are planning on meeting in person at 6:30pm at Fair Isle Wednesday August 3rd for an in person meeting! Fair Isle is also releasing their version of the Ukraine beer that day, and wanted people to being what they made with the wort on that day so we can taste all of them.

Again, as COVID cases are trending up, the plan is to try and spread out with the doors open. Bring some homebrew to share! Once the homebrew starts flowing we can’t have more Fair Isle Beers, but once we hit around 8:30 anyone that wants to stay for beers from the taproom can head out into the beer garden.

Meeting announcement (from Kevin):

We are planning on meeting in person at 6:30pm at Fair Isle next Wednesday July 6th for an in person meeting! Again, as COVID cases are trending slightly up, the plan is to have the brewery space and the Orchid Room open, with doors open. I am hoping that helps spread us all out a bit more.

Bring some homebrew to share! Once the homebrew starts flowing we can’t have more Fair Isle Beers, but once we hit around 8:30 anyone that wants to stay for beers from the taproom can head out into the beer garden. It doesn’t look like there will be a pop-up food truck this time (though I said that last time and there totally was), but there usually is some food around the other breweries in the neighborhood that you could hit up first!

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday November 3rd at 7:00pm via Zoom.

We will continue to meet virtually until we mention otherwise.

If any club members wish to organize in person groups feel free, though please do so safely.

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Our educational guest this month will be Jon from Oppegaard Meadery to discuss mead making techniques. Oppegaard Meadery creates an amazing variety of Mead using a wide range of both common and rare ingredients.

Honey is always the main ingredient, but also expect to find fruit, spices, hops, herbs and even tea leaves in the unique Meads we craft.

Find out why this many thousands of year old drink is making such a buzz still in the modern age.

Jon has recommended the Drengr as a great mead for pointing out a lot of the differences between beer and low abv Mead. They have other meads available (Blueberry is more “wine like” but something like the hausakljúfr isn’t) that Cassie will be picking up from their meadery in Tukwila. If you’re interested in buying mead for the meeting, please reply in Slack to coordinate with Cassie.

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After our education talk depending on the number of folks present, we’ll either split into small groups or just discuss homebrew as a big group. Looking forward to seeing y’all real soon!

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Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday October 6th at 7:15pm. This month we're hosting the one and only Captain Spooky aka Ron Jeffries of Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales joining us for a Q&A. Come with your questions about oak aging, mixed cultures and all things spooky!

Given the current situation with COVID mandates, we are still VIRTUAL until further notice.

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• 8:00ish-10:00ish: Homebrew Discussion

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday August 4th (THIS WEDNESDAY) at 6:30pm via Zoom.

Given the current situation with COVID variants, new masking recommendations, the number of club members with household members who are unable to be vaccinated we have decided to meet VIRTUALLY this month. Hopefully we’ll be back in person again soon, but better safe than sorry.

If any club members wish to organize in person groups feel free, though please do so safely.

Our educational guest this month will be Kaleb from Yakima Valley Hops, to discuss hops in general, but specifically wet hops. Kaleb was kind enough to help us out with our You Are Not Alone project we did last year in collaboration with Reuben’s Brews to raise money for workers in the hospitality industry.

As we approach fall we get closer to the special time of the year when hops are fresh and we get a once a year chance to brew with them! If you’re new to the Pacific Northwest, fresh and wet hops might be new to you- Kaleb’s going to talk to us a little bit about what they are and how to make the best use of them in our brewing.

After our education we want to try something new: splitting into small groups to get a little bit more conversation going between folks! Try to think of something that you’d like to talk with other homebrewers about, whether it’s a beer you’ve made or been thinking about making, some process questions, or picking folks’ brains about a particular style.

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6:40-7:30ish: Hops & Wet Hops with Kaleb from Yakima Valley Hops

7:30-10:00ish: Homebrew Discussion

We made it!

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday July 7th at 6:30pm, and we are happy to announce that we are able to meet IN PERSON once again at Fair Isle!

While we are meeting in person again starting this month COVID is still very much a thing that many of our members have to be concerned about due to having young children who are unable to be vaccinated. For this reason, please only come to the in person meeting at Fair Isle if you have been fully vaccinated. If anyone would still prefer to join virtually, we will be continuing to do our education and announcements via Zoom.

We are going to be meeting in Fair Isle’s “Secret Warehouse” (address below) so we don’t interrupt their thankfully busy business. According to Andrew Pogue the warehouse is very basic, with no chairs, water, or restrooms- though Fair Isle’s restrooms will be available to us.

Out of respect for Fair Isle’s business, they’d like us out of the warehouse early at 8:30, but the brewery is open until 10 for us to continue to visit.

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Our educational guest this month will be Paul Arne from The Ale Apothecary outside of Bend. Ale Apothecary focuses on local ingredients and mixed fermentations, using a very simple brewhouse. From their website: “The Ale Apothecary creates totally natural, barrel-aged beer using ingredients off our land or sourced nearby, direct from Oregon farms.”

We are also fortunate enough that Paul was able to send some bottle to Chuck’s Hop Shop for us to do a virtual tasting with him- Bottles are available now at the Greenwood location for roughly $27ish.

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For those of you who haven’t met with us in person before, if you have homebrew you’d like to bring to share and for feedback please do so! We won’t be doing much organized tasting this meeting, but it’s always good to get another brewer’s thoughts.

Duels are still largely on hold, but may pick up again soon as we start to meet in person again.

Location

Fair Isle's Secret Warehouse!

943 NW 50th St, Suite C

Schedule

6:30-7:00: Meeting starts, share homebrew, visit.

7:00-???: Education with Paul Arne from The Ale Apothecary

???-8:30: Share Homebrew, visit

8:30: Pack up and head to Fair Isle’s taproom for more conversation

Things to bring

• Homebrew!

• Brewing Notes

• A Glass

• Water

• A Chair

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Sorry for the late announcement!

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday June 2nd at 7pm. We will have Chris from Escarpment Labs joining us to talk about Kveik.

We are still aiming to do a group buy from Escarpment and need some more orders! If you are interested, sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10hpev8BrKFSvKwVV6wD2QhsaG7sVkcuABqbMw9AWRsU/edit

Duels are still largely on hold, but Andrew does still have a homebrew cooler on his porch if anyone wants to drop off and pick up some beer. If you don’t know where he lives but want to swap some beer just send him a message.

After some announcements we’ll check in on what people are drinking and brewing lately.

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Leading up to our Club Belgian Brew-off our next Brewers Happy Hour we will be joined by Chris Engdahl from Lantern Brewing on Friday May 21st at 7pm. Each month we will be having a video happy hour with a different brewery to taste and talk about some of their beers.

Lantern Brewing will be putting together a mixed pack of beers for us that will include:

• Skagit One/CME3 Lagerbier

• Citranox 2020 barrel hopped saison

• Au Brun bière de garde

• Sombre 2019 barrel aged quadrupel

Beers are available for pickup starting this weekend. Make sure to ask for the North Seattle Homebrewers discount. Look forward to seeing you then!

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Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday, May 5th at 7pm. We will have Head Brewer Lisa Allen from Heater Allen joining us to talk about lager techniques.

Heater Allen is beloved for their wonderful array of lagers and are often stocked at our local bottle shops. They also did a recent collab with Great Notion that is available now. Go get some beer to enjoy during the meeting!

Duels are still largely on hold, but Andrew does still have a homebrew cooler on his porch if anyone wants to drop off and pick up some beer. If you don’t know where he lives but want to swap some beer, just send him a message.

After some announcements, we’ll check in on what people are drinking and brewing lately.

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For our next Brewers Happy Hour, we will be joined by Ravenna Brewing on Friday April 30th at 7pm. Each month we will be having a video happy hour with a different brewery to taste and talk about some of their beers.

Ravenna Brewing will be putting together a mixed pack of beers for us that will include:

• Betsy The Cat Hazy IPA Collab with Elizabeth Station

• As yet unnamed west coast IPA

• Crispy Shifty Kellerbier collab with Reubens

• Lion tamer Vanilla Porter

4 packs will be available for pick up starting Friday 5/23.

Look forward to seeing you then!

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Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday April 7th at 7pm. We will have Richard Preiss from Escarpment Labs joining us to talk about Brettanomyces. Escarpment Labs is also being kind enough to setup a group buy for the club. You can check out what they have to offer at: https://escarpmentlabs.com/collections/homebrew

If you are interested please add your name and what you want to the google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10hpev8BrKFSvKwVV6wD2QhsaG7sVkcuABqbMw9AWRsU/edit

Duels are still largely on hold, but Andrew does still have a homebrew cooler on his porch if anyone wants to drop off and pick up some beer. If you don’t know where he lives but want to swap some beer, just send him a message.

After some announcements we’ll check in on what people are drinking and brewing lately.

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For our next Brewer’s Happy Hour, we will be joined by Barry from Lucky Envelope Brewing on Friday March 19th at 7pm. Each month we will be having a video happy hour with a different brewery to taste and talk about some of their beers.

Lucky Envelope will be putting together a mixed four-pack for us and will likely be ready this coming Saturday 3/13. The beers will be: Helles Lager, ENIAC Mosaic IPA, Raspberry Sour, Honey Cinnamon Cream Stout!

Look forward to seeing you then!

UPDATE: Their in house POS system can’t process the mixed packs, so please order online for pickup. Here is the link to the Mixed 4-Packs https://checkout.square.site/merchant/A891SB1KZN4FR/checkout/6UGYHAWXXEP5YOPI6RJKML7K

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Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday March 3rd at 7pm. We will have Jesse from Chainline Brewing joining us to talk about Maibock (and Marzen). I (Andrew) first heard about Jesse when he was one of the panelists for last year’s Homebrew Con lager talk and the Maibock he makes in collab with Georgetown and Lowercase is damn good. I don’t think it’s available right now but please try to support them and grab some beer if you can.

Duels are still largely on hold, but Andrew does still have a homebrew cooler on his porch if anyone wants to drop off and pick up some beer. If you don’t know where he lives but want to swap some beer, just send him a message on Slack or Facebook.

After some announcements we’ll check in on what people are drinking and brewing lately.

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Our next Brewers Happy Hour we will be joined by Brad, the head brewer from Stoup Brewing on Friday February 12th at 7pm. Each month we will be having a video happy hour with a different brewery to taste and talk about some of their beers.

Stoup will be putting together a mixed four pack for members to pick up and taste during the happy hour. The beers will be Helles, Mixtape Romeo DH Lager, Ride the Lupulin IPA and Porter. Beers will be available starting Monday Feb 8th.

Look forward to seeing you then!

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Our next club meeting will be on February 3rd at 7pm. We will have Jason from Pint Size Brewing joining us. Pint Size is a nano-brewery in the Phinney neighborhood that does beer releases on Saturdays. If you have a chance to grab some of his beer, we highly recommend it. We’ll hear from Jason about his nano-brewery model and open up for Q&A.

Duels are still largely on hold, but Andrew does still have a homebrew cooler on his porch if anyone wants to drop off and pick up some beer. If you don’t know where he lives but want to swap some beer, just send him a message on Slack or Facebook (details for both are on our Contact Info page).

After some announcements we’ll check in on what people are drinking and brewing lately.

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Our first Brewers Happy Hour of 2021 will be with the wonderful guys at Fair Isle Brewing on Friday January 15th at 7pm. Each month we will be having a video happy hour with a different brewery to taste and talk about some of their beers.

Andrew Pogue has created a NSH 4-pack for us to show the breadth of Fair Isle's yeast culture: Madame R. Galle, Alexandra, Jean-Michel and Lydia.

From Andrew:

There are two ways folks can get the beer.

1. They can come into our tasting room and grab the "bundle" of four 375ml bottles at 15% off, or if they just want one or two, they are welcome to purchase without a discount.

2. They can purchase the bundle online with this link. From here they can choose to pick it up in the tasting room or receive free shipping (on the bundle only) using the coupon code "Papazian" at checkout. For shipping, they must purchase by January 11th to ensure they receive the beer.

https://shop.fairislebrewing.com/product/nshc-box/

Look forward to seeing you then!

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It’s almost 2021! We made it! We really miss seeing all of you in person, and hopefully sometime next year that will change, but for now we will continue the online meetings.

The first meeting of 2021 will be on Jan 6th at 7pm. We’re starting 2021 with a panel of our very own Homebrewers talking about recipe design. Annie, Nikolaj, Frank and possibly another will go over how they approach recipe design and then open up for questions.

Duels are still largely on hold, but Andrew does still have a homebrew cooler on his porch if anyone wants to drop off and pick up some beer. If you don’t know where he lives but want to swap some beer, just send him a message on Slack.

After some announcements we’ll check in on everyone’s brew year’s resolutions and see what people are drinking and brewing lately.

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Hello all, we’ll be starting some new monthly meetings of happy hours with different breweries. Each month we will pickup beers from a different brewery and then meet up online to taste them and talk to the brewer about them. In a lead up to our Mild competition we will be starting with Machine House Brewing.

Bill will be joining us on December 18th at 8pm after our Secret Santa.

The beers we will be focusing on are their Dark Mild and Cambridge Bitter but feel free to get any other of their beers as well.

If you can’t make it down to Georgetown to pickup some bottles (they also deliver) let Andrew know and he’ll pickup some beers on Dec 12th and can have them available for porch pickup, message him if you want him to pickup beers for you.

Cheers!

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday 12/2 at 7pm.

For our educational talk, Colin Kaminski and John Palmer will be joining us to talk about brewing water. They co-wrote the book Water, which has a ton of good information in it, if you don’t have it, check it out. It will then open up for a Q&A.

After we hear from Colin and John, we will run through announcements and then move on to talk about what we are each drinking and/or brewing.

The beer swap cooler is still out on Andrew’s porch. Feel free to drop by and leave some beer and take some beer before the next meeting! If you don’t know where he lives, send him a message (over Slack or Facebook) and he’ll give you the address.

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Wow, it’s almost November already! Our virtual homebrew club meeting for November will be on 11/4 at 7pm.

Our Speaker for this month will be Owen Lingley from Imperial Yeast to talk about yeast health and starters and then will do a Q&A to answer any other yeasty questions you may have.

Afterwards we will go through some announcements and then open up to talk about what our members are drinking and brewing.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

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Hello Everyone!

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday 10/7 at 7pm.

As we have been doing, and as each of you feel comfortable in doing so, feel free to meet in small groups to join the zoom meeting.

For our educational talk, Drew Beechum will be joining us to talk about the the crazy world of Saisons. It will then open up for a Q&A.

After we hear from Drew we will run through announcements and then move on to talk about what we are each drinking and/or brewing.

A zoom invite will be posted to to our Slack and Facebook group the day of the meeting. If you haven’t already you should join both! Info for both can be found on the contact page.

Look forward to seeing you all!

Our next virtual club meeting will be on Wednesday 9/2 at 7pm.

We will try out a mixed format for this club meeting. For those that feel comfortable doing so, we will try to have some small groups (5 or less) getting together and joining in the zoom meeting. If you are willing to host, or would like to meet up at a brewery post it and how many seats you have available. You can also check with individual club members to join you if that more fits your comfort levels.

TLDR, get together if you want, do what’s comfortable, but still join online.

We’ll run through some announcements per usual.

For our educational talk, Jeff Mello from Bootleg Biology will be joining us to talk about wild yeast wrangling. It will then open up for a Q&A.

After we hear from Jeff we will move on to talk about what we are each drinking and/or brewing.

The day of the meeting, we’ll share a Zoom link in our Slack and Facebook group. Be sure to join one or both! Details are on the Contact page.

Look forward to seeing you all!

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday 8/5 at 7pm.

We will try out a mixed format for this club meeting. For those that feel comfortable doing so, we will try to have some small groups (5 or less) getting together and joining in the zoom meeting. If you are willing to host, or would like to meet up at a brewery post it and how many seats you have available. You can also check with individual club members to join you if that more fits your comfort levels.

TLDR, get together if you want, do what’s comfortable, but still join online.

Duels have largely been on hold, but I want everyone to be thinking about their Ultimate Summer Crusher beer, for August (maybe just maybe we can meet then, we’ll see). This can be any style, but should be something refreshing and crushable on a hot summer day. Think dry saisons, fruited Berliner Weiss, American Lagers, Helles, Session Pales, etc

We’ll run through some announcements per usual.

For our educational talk, Adam Robbings from Reuben's Brews will be joining us to talk about the Kettle Sour process and Gose. It will then open up for a Q&A (I bet he might share info on their Double Crush recipe).

After we hear from Adam, we will move on to talk about what we are each drinking and/or brewing.

Andrew will post a Zoom invite in Slack and Facebook on the day of the event, so be sure to join us there if you haven't already. Details can be found on the Contact page.

Look forward to seeing you all!

Our next club meeting will be on July 1st at 7:30.

We will try out a mixed format for this club meeting. For those that feel comfortable doing so, we will try to have some small groups (5 or less) getting together and joining in a Zoom meeting. If you are willing to host, or would like to meet up at a brewery, post it and how many seats you have available. You can also check with individual club members to join you if that more fits your comfort levels.

TLDR, get together if you want, do what’s comfortable, but still join online.

Duels have largely been on hold, but I want everyone to be thinking about their Ultimate Summer Crusher beer, for August (maybe just maybe we can meet then, we’ll see). This can be any style, but should be something refreshing and crushable on a hot summer day. Think dry saisons, fruited Berliner Weiss, American Lagers, Helles, Session Pales, etc

We’ll run through some announcements per usual.

Our educational speaker will be John from Lowercase Brewing who will be joining us to talk about the Italian Pilsner beer style, or at least the growing American take on it. The brewer from Chainline Brewing was a part of the lager panel at Virtual Homebrew Con and highly credited John on the information he had on the style. Other examples of this style include Pivo Pils from Firestone, Terrifica from Wayfinder and Oxbow Brewing’s Luppolo. I highly recommend you try to grab the one from Lowercase or another example to drink as we talk.

From Lowercase Brewing’s website:

Crisp, floral, and refreshing- like zooming though Tuscany on a Vespa.

YEAR-ROUND OFFERING | 4.9% ABV | Modeled after Italian brewery Birrificio Italiano’s Tipopils, this beer is light and crisp with unique floral undertones. Multiple dry-hop additions as well as a careful attention to water input and fermentation temperature set this new-world pilsner apart from the rest of the world’s favorite beer style.

After we hear from John, we will move on to talk about what we are each drinking and/or brewing.

Andrew will post a Zoom invite in Slack and Facebook on the day of the event, so be sure to join us there if you haven't already. Details can be found on the Contact page.

Our June meeting was postponed, but will be happening on Zoom.

We’ll go over some announcements, which include the Black is Beautiful project, Virtual Homebrew Con, and brewery reopening.

Depending on his availability, we may have Marcus from Weathered Souls pop in to talk about the Black is Beautiful project and also answer questions about brewing the stout.

Hamwater (David) will give a short talk on the historical grisette beer style. Then, we’ll open up discussion to hear what people are brewing and drinking during this time.

We’ll share the Zoom link in our Slack that evening. If you’re not in our Slack already, there’s information to sign up on our Contact page

Due to COVID-19, our April meeting is cancelled. We are discussing options for an online video conference instead, so stay tuned.

Our next club meeting will be on Wednesday March 4th. Arrive around 7, and we’ll start at 7:30. The address is Fair Isle Brewing at 936 NW 49th

Our duels this month will be Scottish Heavy’s and an array of smoked beers! When you arrive, try out each and vote for your favorite.

If you don't know about duels, they are member driven brewing challenges that are either ingredient or style based. Upcoming duels are: 17% beers (Apr) Rye IPA, Stout, Maibock (May) American Pale Ale and Kolsch(Jun). Feel free to join in any current duels or challenge someone else to a new one!

For our education topic, Cassie is back from her trip and will lead us in a discussion and tasting of some common off-flavors.

When you arrive please fill out a nametag and a sticky note with your name and what beer you brought to share.

If you haven't been to one of our meetings, after announcements and a brief education talk we generally split into groups and try one person's beer at a time starting with the lightest, with an opportunity after each for feedback and questions so please keep side conversations to a minimum when the sharer is giving info on their recipe and process so that everyone can hear then there will be a chance for discussion. Please bring a bomber or two or growler of homebrew to share. Don't worry if you don't have any to share this time; just bring yourself.

Fair Isle is now open! We will be meeting in the brewery. The main rules will be no homebrew in the tasting room, no bringing Fair Isle beer into the meeting after it has started, and lastly, we will need to be fully out of the space at 10. We have access to some chairs, but still have need for more, so bring one or two if you can.

Andrew has talked with Trailbend Taproom, the beer bar nearby and they are happy to have us show up after, but the kitchen closes at 10, so head over a little early if you want food.

Back to our regular programming the next meeting will be on Wednesday Feb 5th. Arrive around 7, and we’ll start at 7:30. The address is Fair Isle at 936 NW 49th St.

We currently do not have a confirmed beer duel for this month, but if you have last minute challenge let Andrew know. Otherwise, he’ll work on rounding up a welcome beer or two.

If you don't know about duels, they are member driven brewing challenges that are either ingredient or style based. Upcoming duels are: Scottish Heavy (Mar) and 17% beer (Apr) American Pale Ale (Jun) Kolsch (unscheduled) Feel free to join in any current duels or challenge someone else to a new one!

For our education topic, Cassie will lead us in a discussion and tasting of some common off-flavors.

When you arrive please fill out a nametag and a sticky note with your name and what beer you brought to share.

If you haven't been to one of our meetings, after announcements and a brief education talk we generally split into groups and try one person's beer at a time starting with the lightest, with an opportunity after each for feedback and questions so please keep conversations to a minimum when the sharer is giving info on their recipe and process so that everyone can hear then there will be a chance for discussion. Please bring a bomber or two or growler of homebrew to share. Don't worry if you don't have any to share this time; just bring yourself.

Fair Isle is now open! So no need for chairs and we have a stock of taster glasses available as well. The main rules will be no Homebrew in the tasting room, no bringing more Fair Isle beer into the meeting after it has started and lastly we will need to be fully out of the space at 10.

I have talked with Trailbend, the beer bar nearby and they are happy to have us show up after, but the kitchen closes at 10, so head over a little early if you want food.

Due to New Years day, our next club meeting is on Wednesday January 8th. Arrive around 7, and we’ll start at 7:30. The address is Fair Isle 936 NW 49th St.

We will have a German Pils Duel and and Herb Beer Duel as our welcome beers. Please try each and vote for your favorite.

If you don't know about duels, they are member driven brewing challenges that are either ingredient or style based. Upcoming duels are: Scottish Heavy (Mar) and 17% beer (Apr) American Pale Ale (Jun) Kolsch (unscheduled) Feel free to join in any current duels or challenge someone else to a new one!

This month’s meeting will be different from most. Instead of our usual agenda of sharing homebrew, Fair Isle will be hosting us for a soft open! After tasting our welcome beers from the duels and some announcements, the Fair Isle taproom will be open to order beers. They’ve been our generous hosts for a while, and we are thrilled to see them open. Leave your growler of homebrew behind and bring some cash!

Well it’s that time of year again. We will be having our annual holiday party on 12/4/19 @7pm.

As many of you know our holiday party is not a normal meeting. This is a time to spend time together and share some beer. We will still have a pair of duels, herb beers and cold extraction beers. We won’t be doing organized tasting but please still bring beer to share, especially if you have anything fun that you’ve been holding onto. We will have a potluck as well so please bring a snack or dessert to share. And most importantly is the “wit” elephant gift exchange.

THE GREAT NORTH SEATTLE HOMEBREW WIT ELEPHANT:

1. Everyone who wishes to participate must contribute a gift, wrapped, bagged, or otherwise suitably obscured. The theme is broadly defined as "Beer and/or Homebrewing" so anything beer or homebrewing related is good. Got a good bottle or two in your cellar? Spare equipment (in good shape) you're not using? Something tasty from a bottle shop? Humorously shaped novelty-ware? Doesn't have to be expensive, but certainly feel free to try and impress others with your Roman-Emperor-like magnanimity if you'd like. Hail Caesar.

2. Someone will make little slips of paper equal to the number of gifts with written numbers. Everyone participating draws one.

3. On the first turn, the person with paper slip #1 chooses a gift, opens it, and all admire it. "Ohhhh! Ahhhh! It's everything I've ever wanted in life! Existence is meaningless without it!"

4. On the second turn, the guest with paper slip #2 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (i.e. #1's) or choosing a new wrapped one. If #2 steals #1's gift, then #1 must open a new wrapped gift. "Mine now." "FFFFFFUUUUUUU!!! Oooh shiny..."

5. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's or #2's) or choosing a wrapped one.

Hope to see you there!