Ipswich Brewers Union

January Social Night - Bring a friend
2021-01-07 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Ballistic Springfield, 37 Sinnathamby Blvd, Springfield Central, Qld, 4300, Australia
We’re at it again and after the disastrous 2020, we’re hoping to catch up again with mates and drink some beer and have a chat with potential new members. Come and meet current members and see if you’d like to join us.

Monthly Meeting - Open Beer Competition
2021-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia
Since this competition is open to any beer in the whole of the AABC style guide, I’d like you to consider it not only an opportunity to brew your favourite style, but also as the chance to brew a beer twice and improve on it. By that i mean look into the future competitions and see if there is a particular beer there that you would particularly like to nail down prior to the QABC in September.
For instance maybe you are really keen to master an IPA. We have an IPA competition in August so you can brew one for the open competition in February and take the feedback on your scoresheet into account, rebrew that beer for the August IPA competition and hopefully your score sheet will reflect your adjustments based on your original scoresheet.

Monthly Meeting - Education Night: Judging Beer
2021-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia
Judging beer, besides brewing it and drinking it, it’s what we are all about and tonight we will be doing some individual exercises on filling out score sheets and developing your expressive vocabulary for describing what you are sensing.

Monthly Meeting - Social Catchup
2021-04-01 19:00 - 21:00
Location and information coming soon.

Monthly Meeting - Competition: Belgian Ales
2021-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia
Information coming soon…

Monthly Meeting - Competition: Stout & Strong Stout
2021-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia
Ahhh…… Stout, the dark prince of beer, they can be sweet, they can be dry, they can mild and they can be strong but they are always black and always dominated by the roasty flavour of charred barley. Roastiness can vary from slightly roasty coffee and cream of a sweet stout through to the intense roasty burned malt of a Russian Imperial and everything in between. When brewing a stout you need to consider your water chemistry, dark grains have a higher acidity than pale and an addition of calcium chloride to your mash water can help maintain an optimum mash ph. Personally, I’ve never been one to play around with water additions and it’s never stopped me brewing a good stout.
Grain bills can be simple with 80% base malt, 6% roast barley, 6% chocolate malt, 8% crystal malt, or to add some depth of flavour you can make small additions of specialty malts such as roast wheat and rye, brown malt, flaked barley, toffee malt, special b etc, just be sure to add a little rather than a lot, you are just trying build a bit of complexity to the overall flavour.
Recipe
Jamil Zainascheff’s Triple-X Sweet Stout (20l batch)
OG = 1.060
FG = 1.023
IBU = 29
colour 39 srm
Alc/Vol = 4.9%
Boil 60min
Pre-boil volume 26.5l
Pre-boil gravity 1.051
4.55kg Maris Otter or Golden Promise
0.45kg black malt
0,45kg dark crystal
0.25kg pale choc malt
0.50kg lactose
Mash at 66c
Ferment with Safale s04 or any English ale yeast

Annual General Meeting
2021-07-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia
Information coming soon,..

Monthly Meeting - Competition: IPA & Specialty IPA
2021-08-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia

Monthly Meeting - Competition: Pale Ale & Pale Lager
2021-09-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia

Monthly Meeting - Competition: Helios Comp
2021-10-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia

Monthly Meeting - Competition: Specialty Beers
2021-11-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia

Members Xmas Party
2021-12-04 | Tap’d Bar at the PA Hotel, 170 Brisbane Rd, Booval, QLD, 4304, Australia
