Educational Presentations

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Here's a few of the past OBC Meeting educational presentations.

Intro to Brewing Water Assessment & Adjustment
 August 2019 - Steve Carper


Hot Steep Method
June 2019 - Tyler Schoales and Mike Heinrich, Country Malt Group


Fruit Innovation for Craft Beverages
May 2019 - Chris Hodge, Oregon Fruit Products



Resilience IPA Horizontal Tasting
January 2019 - Bill Schneller


Making and tasting specialty IPAs

Making and tasting specialty IPAs
January 2014 - Jason Barker, Bill Schneller


Beer Flavor & Nature and Origin of Defects

Beer Flavor & Nature and Origin of Defects
Thomas Shellhammer

Brewing Award Winning Beer
& Being True to Style - Randy Scorby


Portland Water Presentation
Driver's Ed Notes for Brewing Adjusting Water
April 2012 - Mike Szwaya



Brewing with Portland Water
April 2012 - Mike Szwaya



Water Chemistry Primer
August 2013 - Aaron Hanson



An overview of temperature as it relates to brewing
March 2013



The Great Mead Experiment 2002




Blue Dog Mead Meeting Presentation
Mystery SMaSH Competition
About the Project
Mystery Hop Recipe
Mystery Hop Evaluation Form
SMaSH #1 Sep 2012
Willamette hops guessed correctly by Joel Sherman
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #2 Oct 2012
Mt Hood hops guessed correctly by Owen Norvell and Justin Galster
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #3 Nov 2012
Simcoe hops guessed correctly by Ted Assur, Steve Carper, Blain Blodgette and Jacob Stromaier
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #4 Dec 2012
Galaxy hops eluded the palates of the OBC. No correct guesses.
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #5 Jan 2013
Nelson Sauvin hops guessed correctly by Will Minderhaut
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #6 Feb 2013
El Dorado hops guessed correctly by Mat Geltzeiler Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #7 Mar 2013
Sorachi Ace hops guessed correctly by Paul Johnson and Mark Glasby
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #8 Apr 2013
Cascade hops and Vienna Malt. Winners: Steve Howard and Dean Reiner
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #9 May 2013
Pacifica hops eluded the palates of the OBC. Better luck next month.
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #10 June 2013
Northern Brewer hops. Winner: Tom Bowden
Tasting Results | Tasting Data
SMaSH #11 July 2013
In a surprise twist, there were both a mystery hop and mystery malt. Hop was Mosaic. Malt was MFB Special Aromatic. Winner: Jason Jordan
Tasting Results | Tasting Data