December 2017 Meeting By r3dunlopDecember 15, 2017May 21, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap Tags: Stonehammer, Tour Our meeting this month was hosted by Phil Woodhouse, co-owner of Stonehammer brewing in Guelph. We had a great turnout with many new members participating in their first meeting.
November 2017 meeting By jangevaareNovember 10, 2017July 11, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap On November 8th, Matt F. in Cambridge hosted the club for it’s monthly meeting. We had a great showing at this meeting, and had Matt’s basement brewery at capacity.
October 2017 meeting By r3dunlopOctober 15, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap This month’s meeting was held at Pat F’s house in Kitchener. At this meeting, we continued to experiment with our meeting format. We started with some announcements from our executive, including introductions for the new executive members. During this time, we got to enjoy some of Pat’s deliciously hoppy Kveik IPA, as well as his tasty…
September 2017 meeting By jangevaareSeptember 17, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap Tags: Homebrew, Meeting September’s meeting marked the 1 year anniversary of the first official True Grist gathering. We’ve grown so much from our humble beginnings.
August 2017 meeting By jangevaareAugust 11, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap This month around a dozen True Grist members met in Kitchener-Waterloo on Doug B.’s lovely backyard patio. The club discussed upcoming events including a cider bulk buy in the Fall (details developing on the forum here), and the potential of the club having a presence at some upcoming Fall beer festivals (those details are developing…
July 2017 meeting By jangevaareJuly 13, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap This month we returned to Guelph’s East side for a meeting of True Grist homebrewers. Josh V was our gracious host. We moved through many samples and styles of beer – blondes, lagers, various wheat beers, a (delicious) dry hopped sour, IPAs, and more. We finally got to try Andrew A’s brown with homemade caraquinoa…
May 2017 Meeting By jangevaareMay 12, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap This month’s meeting was hosted by Mike H. in Cambridge. It was one of our smaller meetings of 2017, but there were no shortage of interesting beers to be sampled. My personal favourite was Jeff B.’s Berliner Weiss made with berries grown in his backyard. We also got to try subtle variations of a Vienna SMASH…
April 2017 meeting By jangevaareApril 15, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap For our April meeting we returned again to Paul B.’s home in Guelph. Approximately 20 homebrewers were in attendance for our regular sharing of beer samples. There were some very interesting beers to be had including a chipotle stout, a carrot bock, a “Blood of Cthulhu” clone, and others. Ciders too!
March 2017 meeting By jangevaareMarch 16, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap Last night we held our monthly meeting for March in Kitchener-Waterloo. Our host was Pat F. (darkstanfinn on our forum), who brews in his basement with a Grain Father system. Pat’s basement has been transformed to the ultimate hangout spot for beer lovers complete with tons of beer and brewing paraphernalia, a keg fridge, air…
February 2017 Meeting+Homebrew Hangout By jangevaareFebruary 25, 2017March 22, 2018 Categories: Meeting recap, Special event recap Tags: Collaboration, Gruit, Shortfinger Brewing, Sour beer This month’s meeting was held jointly with Short Finger Brewing Company’s Homebrew Hangout. Regular attendees of SFBC’s homebrew hangout were welcomed to join True Grist members to hear about our club, and sample some gruit that the club collaboratively brewed with SFBC earlier in the month.
