Sonoma Beerocrats Homebrewing Club

What's in your water?

November 20, 2012 · 6:00 PM
The Beverage People - NEW LOCATION

Join the Beerocrats for a water chemistry presentation with Colin Kaminski.
Colin is the BrewMaster at Down Town Joe's in Napa CA. He started homebrewing in 1996, and became brewmaster in 2002. Colin has presented workshops on brewing water and writen aticles for many brewing publications. Don't miss this meeting! You'll be sorry...
The club will buy pizza, non members will please pay $5 for pizza. Bring your latest homebrew to share, see ya there.

Style Talk will be on American Amber Ale by John Arends.

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Gabe Jackson

I think this could easily be called our most advanced meeting of the year. It was a real treat to get such professional insight into water chemistry. Thank you Colin for coming back!

0 · November 21
Terry

Colin is a great speaker, sure knows his PRIME INGREDIENT!!! Enjoying the group more as time goes on.

0 · November 20
Greg Haas

great, i sure enjoy geeking out about beer...

0 · November 20
Ron Slyh

Thanks Colin for a great talk on water, and John for the style talk and beer. Good times. So much to learn. :)

0 · November 20
Bill Splaine

Excellent.. Colin did a great job.. but, and a big but for me.. it was quite technical for an old f@rt like me. I want to learn about getting water right.. but, I don't have access to a lab to check water for every brew.. much less for different parts of the brew.

For now, I think I'll have to utilize the water report from Healdsburg which can happen at any time of the year. I've averaged the last five reports (5 years) and came up with a number. I'll likely have to go from there and maybe seek help for three to four different beers based on those numbers and adjust future brew from there.

Prosts to the Beerocrat leadership for continuing to provide us with great learning experiences.

0 · November 20