February 2019 Meeting

By ChrizFebruary 19, 2019March 6, 2019 Bulk buy, Meeting recap Barn Cat Artisan Ales, Bulk Buy, Hayhoe Hops, Meeting, Meeting recap, Monthly meeting

For our February meeting, we visited our friends at Barncat Artisan Ales in Cambridge. At this meeting, we distributed the goodies of two bulk buys, had two excellent presentations on hops and were updated on club news.

2018 Hop Buy Wrap Up

By jangevaareMay 28, 2018May 28, 2018 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Chilliwack Hops, Growth, Hops, Nitrogen flushed, SFBC, Short Finger Brewing Company, Volunteers

True Grist ran it’s 2nd annual hop bulk buy with Chilliwack hops this Spring. In total, 291 lbs of hops across 47 varieties were ordered by 44 different Full Members, all of which arrived last week at this year’s sorting and distribution centre – Short Finger Brewing Company.

2018 Keg Bulk Buy

By jangevaareApril 12, 2018 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Kegs, Thanks, Volunteer

The kegs have landed!

True Grist members went in for a short notice buy of a skid of 75 used ball lock cornelius kegs from Ontario Beer Kegs. What a great opportunity this was to grow personal keg supply. If you participated in this buy, check your email for the pick up instructions.

Field trip to Escarpment Labs

By jangevaareApril 5, 2018April 10, 2018

Join us as we tour the growing facilities of our favourite yeast producer, Escarpment Labs. Ask the Escarpment Labs team your burning questions about Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus (and more?) in brewing, and learn more about where your brewing cultures come from. This facility tour and Q&A will be coupled with a yeast buy. This event…

2018 Honey Bulk Buy

By jangevaareMarch 20, 2018April 2, 2018 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Dave's Apiaries, Honey, Mead

At the March 2018 True Grist meeting at Revel Cider, we distributed the spoils of our first ever honey bulk buy. In total the club ordered 300kg from Dave’s Apiaries in London.

Spring 2018 malt bulk buy

By jangevaareMarch 3, 2018April 2, 2018 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Grain, Kamil Juices, Malt

On Saturday March 3rd 2018, 6 volunteers sorted out the grain splits for our annual Spring malt bulk buy at Kamil Juices. Chris K. brought along some imperial stout to share, which was just the ticket to get all of this done!

Cider bulk buy 2017

By jangevaareOctober 16, 2017September 17, 2018 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Cider, Frank E, Kamil Juices, Wild Yeast

This year True Grist ran a group buy again for a cider blend for hard cider production from Frank E’s in Vanessa, ON. This delicious juice is cold pressed, UV-pasteurized, and non-sulphited. With the growth of the club, and positive results from last year buy, it was not a huge surprise when our order came…

2017 hop bulk buy

By jangevaareJune 4, 2017November 10, 2017 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Chilliwack Hops, Homebrew, Hops, Kamil Juices

I’d been meaning to do a short post on our hop bulk buy to the club blog for a couple weeks now. True Grist partnered with Chilliwack Hops to provide members with fresh hops this Spring. There were literally 100s of varieties available, which were sourced from all over the world. We had close to 200lbs of…

Spring malt bulk buy

By jangevaareMay 1, 2017November 10, 2017 Bulk buy Bulk Buy, Grain, Malt

This Spring the True Grist Homebrew Club ran a malt bulk buy, and it was a huge success! We had close to 7000 lbs of malt ordered – our largest bulk buy yet! The total savings our members took advantage of through this buy were substantial. The bulk buy was held with friends Kamil Juices…