Two Big Beer Events are Going Down Next Week
Firkin Rendezvous
Bristol Brewing is hosting their 15th Annual Firkin Rendezvous to benefit the Colorado Brewers Guild on February 22. This event has been one of Colorado Springs’ best beer festivals and we can’t wait to see what the breweries put in their firkins this time around. Tickets are going fast, so if you want to go, grab yours Here.
Rocky Mountain Brewing Symposium at UCCS
The RMBS is happening a day before Firkin and is a one day series of lectures and presentations about the latest innovations and ideas in the beer industry. The presenters are people in the industry from breweries from all over Colorado and a majority of attendees will be head brewers and brewery owners. For $99, you get a very informative, immersive event, high profile speakers, awesome looking agenda, and even breakfast and lunch to top it all off. Oh, and there will be beer.
The event is largely made for and attended by people working or hoping to break into the industry. I'll post the agenda below so you can see for yourself. Every year the event sells out, so if you're interested you need to get your tickets immediately. If that sounds like you, go rub elbows with some of the regions best brewers and learn a thing or two in the process!
7:30 – 8:30 Registration & Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 Dissolved Oxygen in Packaging: Analysis, Equipment, Optimal Results
Alexis Foreman (Wild Goose-Mehenn)
Emily & Danny Wang (Fermly: Craft Beer Laboratory)
9:20 – 10:05 How Tap Rooms are Changing the Brewing Landscape
Tim Cochrane (Horse and Dragon)
Neil Fisher (Co-Owner, Head Brewer of WeldWerks)
Chris Wright (Pikes Peak Brewing Company)
Dave Cole (Co-Founder and Co-Owner, Epic Brewing Co.)
10:10 – 10:55 Demystifying Recent Advances in Hop Processing and Hop Products
Blaze Rudd (Director of Key Accounts and Brewing Innovation, Yakima Chief Hops)
Nichole Rieman (Head Brewer, Odd13)
Jameson Arnett (Head Brewer, Station 26)
Alex Rabe (Lead Brewer, Ratio Beerworks)
11:00– 11:45 Sensory Session: Malt – The Hot Steep Method
Dan Galvagni (Root Shoot Malting)
11:45 – 12:10 Lunch (Colorado BBQ and GF options)
12:10 – 12:55 Keynote: The Underground Collaboration Between The Big And Small Brewers
Tobin Eppard (MillerCoors Corporate Brewing (Ret) & Colorado State University)
12:55 – 1:00 Mattoon Award Presentation
Peter and Frezi Bouckaert (Purpose Brewing and Cellars)
1:05 – 1:50 Lagers & Pre-Prohibition Brewing
Jonathan Shikes (Journalist & Author, "Denver Beer: a History of Mile High Brewing")
Panelists:
Tony Simmons (President, Head Brewer of Pagosa Springs Brewpub; his pre- Prohibition pils won gold at the 2016 Colorado State Fair)
Ron Abbott (Co-Owner & Founder, Denver's Seedstock Brewing; his German and Czech ancestors brewed American-style Old World lagers for several generations)
Dennis O'Harrow (longtime local brewer for CB & Potts, Arvada Beer and now Lone Tree Brewing; his pre-Prohibition lager earned a GABF medal)
1:55 – 2:40 Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Brewery
Jermaine Lindsey (Invisible Sentinel)
Jessica McElvain (Owner, SSQ Consultants)
Dr. Ethan Tsai (MSU Denver and Tivoli Brewing)
2:45 – 3:30 "The Next Big Thing: Developing the Niche Market for Big, Cellarable Beers."
Wayne Burns and Laura Worley (Burns Family Artisan Ales)
3:35 – 4:55 Sensory Session:
Hop Spikes
Melissa Antone (QA/QC Consultant - Sensory Specialist)
Hands-On Brewing Science
Jermaine Lindsey (Invisible Sentinel)
*additional presenters TBA
4:55 - 5:00 Firkin Rendezvous (Bristol Brewing) Ticket Raffle and concluding remarks
5pm -8pm Buffet dinner
(Jambalaya with GF & Vegetarian options, plus apps including Bacon Wrapped Crawdaddy Jalapenos ) and games (pool & darts) downstairs at Oskar Blues
Registration and other details can be found here: http://bit.ly/RMBS2020
