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DRAFT Night Out – Branch & Bone

Come on out February 23rd at 6PM with your family, friends, and fellow homebrewers to support our February sponsor, Branch & Bone! They are hosting the Big Beer Bacchanal where they’ll be bringing out some of their biggest beers for one last tapping. Once the kegs are gone, there’s no more of that beer left.

Branch & Bone supported tables at Brewfest as well as hosted one of our meetings last year on short notice so let’s make sure to thank them by drinking all their beer!

As of right now, there is no food truck information available but Branch & Bone welcomes carry-in food. Pizza Factory is right down the street and will deliver to your table.

For up to date information and communications, please visit the Facebook event.

Cheers!

DRAFT Board Meeting – Feb 5th

Come on out to Brewtensils February 5th at 7PM for our DRAFT Board Meeting.

We typically discuss upcoming events, potential improvements for the club, and anything else you want to bring up! Input from all members is encouraged and welcomed.

We have a small bottle share as well.

Check here for the event on Facebook for a timely reminder.

DRAFT Night Out – November 14th

Come on out November 14th at 6PM with your family, friends, and fellow homebrewers to Hairless Hare Brewery in Vandalia! Known for their high quality ales and delicious pizza, Hairless Hare has been a long time sponsor of DRAFT. Let’s pay them a visit and drink some wonderful beer!

Hairless Hare serves delicious pizzas, wings, and other appetizers! Come hungry!

For up to date information and communications, please visit the Facebook event!

DRAFT Meeting – November 19th

Think you can tell the difference between an imitation lager and the real thing?

Join the DRAFT club at our next meeting on Monday, November 19th at 7:00 PM at Warped Wing Brewery to put your skills to the test!

You and your friends are invited to participate in a sensory experiment to determine if two beers from a split batch using two different fermentation methods are indistinguishable in taste.  The event will include a discussion of the methods, impacts, and statistical analysis of the results.

Additionally, this meeting is the judging of the iron brewer competition! This go-around is the root and tuber experiment. Bring two of your best samples of a beer brewed by you with a root or tuber. A panel of judges will taste and grade your beers. The winner will choose the subject of our next iron brewer! Please label your beer with what it is (descriptive name/style) and a way to identify the brewer.

And as always, we’ll have a bottle share! Bring a couple homebrews and ask for feedback from your peers.

Cheers!

DRAFT Night Out – October 23rd

Come on out October 23rd at 6PM with your family, friends, and fellow homebrewers to The Barrel House! Heralded as the day drinking capital of Third Street, this fine establishment has graciously supported multiple tables at Brewfest and many other events DRAFT has hosted. Let’s pay them a visit and drink some wonderful beer!

The Barrel House does not serve food but carry-in are allowed! Local suggestions are:

  • Pizza Factory
  • Taqueria Mixteca
  • Smokin’ BBQ
  • Arepas (closes at 7PM)

For up to date information and communications, please visit the Facebook event!

DRAFT Club Meeting — Oct 15th

Come out for our monthly DRAFT Meeting! This month we’re back to our normal host, Warped Wing!

The meeting will begin with a bottle share. Bring a couple homebrew for feedback from your peers.

Ashley will be accompanied by Joe in giving one of his famous talks on mead-making for beer makers! This talk is intended to show you what equipment you can reuse from your beer making process to make mead. ‘Tis the season!

We’ll get an update on another lager brewing experiment this month with results at the November meeting.

The next iron brewer judging will be at the November meeting. Ashley and Tom picked roots and tubers as the theme! If you need ideas, they suggest checking out either The Homebrewer’s Almanac or Stephen Buhner’s Sacred and Healing Herbal Beers. You can also ask on the DRAFT Facebook group.

Ale-O-Ween is in two weeks! A number of our members will be attending and/or volunteering! Please contact Brian or the event organizer, Mary, if you’d like to volunteer!

Stay tuned for some future posts about club night out events for the rest of the year!

Cheers!

DRAFT Night Out – September 27th

Come out September 27th with your family and friends to Eudora Brewing Company for a DRAFT Night out event! Have a pint with your fellow homebrewers and explore another one of our wonderful Dayton area breweries. Thursday is Eudora’s day to infuse one of their beers with a special ingredient. Seems like a good day to come out!

Eudora is setting up their second location as of this posting so we will be visiting their original location located at 4716 Wilmington Pike

We organize these events to thank our generous sponsors throughout the year. Sometimes we even get a treat when we attend as a big group. This time, the brewer will be swinging by to get to know us and answer any questions we have about the brewery or brewing in general!

If they have a tap open, an infusion will likely be on tap for us.

As for food, they are looking into a food truck but we can carry in.

Check here for up to date event information on Facebook.

DRAFT Club Meeting — August 20th [BRANCH & BONE HOST!]

Come out for a unique DRAFT Meeting! This month our normal hosts, Warped Wing, are having an event on our typical meeting Monday and Dayton’s newest brewery, Branch & Bone have graciously offered to host us!

The meeting will begin with a bottle share. Bring a couple homebrew for feedback from your peers.

The DRAFT Iron Brewer competition will be taking place at this meeting! The last round of competition was won by Nate Pahl with his pale ale that went on to take 2nd in the American Ales category at the Ohio State Fair homebrew competition. Winning our iron brewer competition gives him the privilege of choosing the next theme. He has decide we should all brew with a floral component to our beer!

This month, Ashley will be giving a talk on sours! Come learn!

This weekend is likely the last weekend to get something brewed up for the competition if you keg!

Check Here for more information and discussion.

Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill – DRAFT Night Out

Time for our second DRAFT night out of the year. On February 27th from 6-8PM, let’s meet up for a pint (or two!) at Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill to thank one of our great sponsors!

There are a number of appetizers, sandwiches, pizzas, and small entrees available for purchase. Check out their website for more information!

http://www.rayswinespiritsgrill.com/
If you can’t make it on the scheduled date, swing by at your leisure to let them know you’re there from DRAFT and thank them for their sponsorship.

See you there!