July 2025

I can’t believe July is already here, who’s excited for the annual LFC BBQ? I know I am. If you’re looking for something else fun to do this month, the Colorado Brewers Rendezvous is a craft beer festival in Salida. This event will be on July 12th from 1-5pm, if you’re interested more info can be found here

Monthly Meeting

• Date: July 19th

• Time: 1 pm – 4 pm

• Location: Josh & Deidre’s House

July’s meeting is our Summer BBQ and this is a great time to meet other members, have some great food, and enjoy the summer weather. Bring a chair(s) if you can. Optionally for those that love to cook, bring a side dish or a dessert.

SMaSH It Up Quarterly Challenge

For our September Quarterly Challenge, we are going to be focused around SMaSH beers. This means Single Malt and Single Hop. For all grain brewers select a single grain to use for the mash. For extract brewers select a single malt extract to use, don't mix dry/liquid extracts, no other grains for steeping or partial mashing. Then you just need to select a single hop to use for the entire brew. You can have multiple hop additions, it just has to be the same hop. Entry form and drop off details can be found here.

Up Coming Competitions

• Liquid Poetry Slam

  • Registration opens August 2nd, register here

  • Entries due August 30th

• Rocky Mountain Homebrew Challenge

  • Registration opens August 1st, register here

  • Entries due September 17th

Education Corner

A Few More Nooks and Crannies to Clean

In the relentless pursuit to be clean and sanitary (and recall those two terms are not interchangeable), here are a couple common pieces of home brew gear that might fly under the radar: corny keg quick disconnects and party taps. Both of these pieces of gear are made to be fully disassembled to allow for cleaning and sanitizing between uses. Simply use a flat blade screwdriver to unscrew the center insert of a standard quick disconnect. Pro tip - be careful to not lose the plastic washer. Even easier, just unscrew the top of a party tap by hand.