May 2025

Monthly Meeting

• Date: May 17th

• Time: Arrive early at 10:45 am, Tour from 11 am - 12 pm

• Location: Breckenridge Brewery Littleton

• Address: 2990 Brewery Ln, Littleton, CO 80120

We're heading to the Breckenridge Brewery Littleton location and doing the tour for our May meeting! LFC will cover the tour cost for paid members. Non-paid members can either bring $5 or send it via PayPal on the day of the tour.

Please plan to be there by 10:45 am so we can get a head count and verify your membership level. The tour kicks off promptly right at 11 am.

Big Brew Day

• Date: May 3rd

• Time: 10 am – 3ish pm

• Location: Terry’s House

• Address: 4982 S Iris St, Littleton, CO 80123

Join us for a club brew day as we celebrate the AHA’s 27th Annual Big Brew Day! We'll be brewing one of the AHA-selected recipes, so come ready to mash, boil, and bond over great beer. It’ll be a great time to meet members.

Bring a side dish to share! Terry will be firing up the grill with hamburgers or specialty sausages.

Our final brew of the day will be entered into a club-only competition hosted by the Weiz Guys!

Come for the brewing, stay for the fun—see you there

Up Coming Competitions

• Feast of Saint Arnold

  • Registration open now, register here

  • Entries due May 24th

• 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

The Boil

Have you ever asked, “Why do we boil the wort?” There’s a number of reasons but the primary reasons are good to learn about or refreshed.  These include:

• The boil stops the enzyme activity that was occurring in the mash, which stops further modification.

• Sterilization. Unwanted bacteria is killed off, which creates a good environment for fermentation.

• Beer clarity. This is aided by the creation of the hot break (where excess proteins in the wort combine with polyphenols during the boiling), which removes this material and is necessary for beer clarity and beer stability.

• There is a pH adjustment, hop utilization, and hop extraction/isomerization that occurs. The boil adjusts the pH, which helps with beer clarity and hop utilization. The boil extracts specific acids from hops, which creates the compounds necessary for hop bitterness.