June 2025

Summer weather is approaching, and with it a need for some crisp lager and bitter IPA’s, well for me that is, what are your favorite summer drinks? If you’re not sure what you’re craving this summer, check out the annual Lake Dillon Beer Festival on June 7th. If you haven’t been to this festival before, this is a really fun event to kick off the summer! Details can be found on the Dillon Amphitheater website

Monthly Meeting

• Date: June 21st

• Time: 11 am – 12 pm

• Location: Old 121 Brewhouse

• Address: 1057 S Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood, CO 80226 

June’s meeting is our Spring has Sprung! Quarterly Challenge. Looking forward to seeing (and tasting) what you all brewed up.

We’ll taste the quarterly challenge entries and hear from each participant about their fermentation. A reminder for folks to bring in 2-3 samples of your entry. After tasting, the winners will be announced. This event is welcome to all, whether you entered the quarterly competition or not.

Reminder, entries are due at Old 121 by 6pm Sunday June 15th. All info about the challenge can be found here

LFC Discord

A couple months ago we started using a new collaboration tool (Discord) for members to more easily collaborate. Consider joining if you haven’t already, as this provides a way to more easily communicate with other club members! We hope to see you there. Link to join.

Up Coming Competitions

• Orpheus MeadFest 2025

  • Registration opens May 1st, register here

  • Entries due June 13th

• 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

Hard Seltzer

In comparison to making a beer, the ingredients, process, and cost to make a hard seltzer is so much less money and effort. The ingredients for brewing a hard seltzer are simple: water, corn sugar (other sugars can be used), yeast, yeast nutrient, and post fermentation flavoring. The flavoring can be kept lower prices too, if brewing on a budget is important. 

I’ve found the variety of having more than beer on tap is so appreciated by myself, family, and friends. On a warm summer’s day, this is a very refreshing drink. And, let’s face it, they're much lower in calories, which can be a huge win at times.

If you’re interested, try this MoreBeer article, a read that has a good process and recipe to follow. Wine yeast is used but beer yeast can be used too. Give US-05 a try, if you have this on hand. Unfortunately, I think this is for folks with brewers with kegs only. I tend to shoot for a higher PSI (20 or so).