December 2019 Meeting

By December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 Meeting recap, Special event recap Charity, Fundraiser, Raffle, SFBC, The Working Centre

Happy holidays, homebrewers! On December 11th, we gathered at Short Finger Brewing for our end of the year party. Like last year, we organized this event as a way to raise money for a local charity and we set our goal higher this year. At the meeting we raised $1246 for The Working Centre thanks…

Tavistock 2019 Field Visit

By ChrizOctober 23, 2019October 23, 2019 Special event recap 2019 Events, Bike ride, Field trip, Hop bine, Hop Buy, Hops, tavihops, Tavistock Hops

Last year, I missed out on our visit to Tavistock during the harvest season, So I was pretty excited that I was able to go this time around. Since Tavistock is just half an hour drive west of Waterloo and the weather was cooperative, I decided to accept the challenge and ride my bike to the hop yard.

#CanadianHomebrewDay with True Grist

By jangevaareJune 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Special event recap #canadianhomebrewday, Canadian Homebrew Day, Canadian Homebrewers Association, Community event, Group brew, SFBC, Short Finger Brewing Company, Special Event

While storms lingered in the forecast for much of June 1st, Mother Nature spared the homebrewers that had gathered at Short Finger Brewing Co. to celebrate the 1st Canadian Homebrew Day with True Grist.

Winter 2019 Sensory Training

By jangevaareMay 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Special event recap beer education

True Grist ran it’s first ever sensory training events in January – we were hosted in Wellington’s Iron Duke House.

True Brewer 2018 Results

By jangevaareJanuary 16, 2019January 17, 2019 Competition, Special event recap Beer, BJCP, Block 3, Competition, Rhythm and Brews, Royal City, True Brewer

True Brewer 2018 was the club’s first foray into running a BJCP sanctioned competition. This competition was coupled with a homebrew holiday swap.

Hops and Harvest – Kelso Conservation

By November 23, 2018January 4, 2020 Special event recap Education, Festival, Homebrewing, Homebrewing demonstration, Hops and Harvest

On October 13th and 14th, True Grist participated in the first Hops and Harvest festival at Milton’s Kelso Conservation Area.

True Grist showing at SFBC Funks competition

By JamieFNovember 23, 2018November 22, 2018 Competition, Special event recap Announcements, Awards, BJCP, BSG, Competition, Competition results, SFBC

A recap of True Grist’s results at the SFBC Funks competition.

Homebrew. Diversity. – a summary of Renée Navarro’s presentation

By jangevaareOctober 16, 2018October 18, 2018 Meeting recap, Special event recap Diversity, Outreach, Ren Navarro

At our October 2018 meeting, Renée Navarro presented to our group on diversity in brewing. This blog post summarizes what was an excellent presentation by Renée.