History

June 2013

Mark Hurley proposed to Dry Dock/ Brew Hut Management to start a club based out of the Brew Hut.

January 2014

Mark Hurley put up a sign in sheet at the Brew Hut to get contact information for anyone who would like to join a homebrew club. The idea of a club was based on conversations with Mike Herrmann, Steve Staley and others.There was a good response to having a club. Mike, Steve and Mark started putting together the club charter, lability waivers and the agenda for the first meeting. The first official meeting was on February 23 rd 2014.

March 2014

It was decided that there should be a leadership team to get things started before having an official election. The
leadership team was:
Mike Herrmann – Chairman
Mark Hurley- Club Liaison
Greg Nelson- Education Coordinator
Morgan Ryan-Events Coordinator
Morris Rangel-Communications/Social Media Coordinator

April 2014

The members of the club submitted a name for the club, the vote that won was ACBC. Morris started the Facebook
page at that time.

August 2014 (Notes from Marc Wethington:)

The first Barrel project was a Wee Heavy. Everyone brewed the same recipe and fermented it at their home. When
the barrel was filled someone had an infected batch. It wasn’t noticed. When they emptied the barrel, it was
detected, and some
people didn’t take their share back. Mike Hermann took his and another keg (maybe 2?) and just sat on it for a long
time. At some point I went over to Mike’s house for a visit, and we pulled a sample. It was fantastic. Like an Old
Bruin (23C).

November 2014

Number 2 barrel was a Belgian Quad. We did something different for the second barrel. Before filling the barrel, we sampled each beer before putting it in the barrel and someone had made an extra batch to top up the barrel or to replace an infected batch. Number 3 we decided we didn’t even want to risk that method, so we decided to brew it all at once. I think it was another barleywine. We brewed it at Launch Pad on the Ruby Street Alpha (the one that A Bit Twisted now has). Number 4 was a Russian Imperial Stout. We brewed this one and all other barrel projects on Moriss’ 20g Blichtman system. We brewed twice one weekend (Saturday and Sunday) and then once the next weekend. Everyone who wanted a share had to both pay $$ for ingredients and do something to help out on a brew day or transfer day. I developed the recipe for this batch and it might still be hanging around somewhere. #5 was the last one we put into a real barrel. It was a Wee Heavy. I still have a bottle or two hanging around and recently brought one to an event. Same deal on Moriss’ system.

December 2014

Holiday party

January 2015

Coda shared a wort with ACBC for us to brew with, there was also a learn to weld event that led to the metal ACBC sign to be made. This was used to hide in a brewery until one of the members found it at which time they would hide it in another brewery for someone else to find. This went on for a while, I have been told it was last seen at the Launch Pad brewery.

March 2015

Mark Hurley led a Siebel off flavor class.

May 2015

It looks like there was a tasting of sour a wee heavy I am thinking it was from a barrel project. Big Brew
Day 2015

June 2015

June first meeting at the Brew Hut.

July 2015

ACBC put together a Brewery tour at Ft. Collins

August 2015

August Meeting at the Brew Hut

September 2015

Another barrel project brewing a Belgian Tripple

July 2016

July 2016, the Brew Hut hosts an AHA Rally

August 2016

We were able to meet at the new classroom at the Brew Hut.

2017

Looks like there was a barrel fill of a Russian Imperial Stout to refill the Barleywine barrel.

2018

2018- half of 2019 central core of people kept showing up until the core gathered at Morris Rangels house to call a special meeting where elections took place President- Morris Rangel VP- Marc Wethington Secretary- Russell Willden July 28 the 2018 Arapahoe ACBC competition. Ask Scott / This was Scott Threlkeld’s baby and I let him run with it. He would know more than I about the who, what, why of it We had a string of Best of Show winners from our club at the Brew Hut competition that then were entered in the Pro-AM at GABF. I think the winners/entrants were: Patrick Chavez Andrew McArthurjuly Mark Wethington John Horton

2019

From Marc Weathington : half of 2019-2020 Morris stepped down for personal reasons and Marc Wethington stepped into President. No VP at the time but Russ helped with VP and Secretary stuff.

March 2019

Boil Rumble is back

May 2019

Big Brew Day 2019

The Melvin project From Marc Wethington: I think Morris was the instigator for entering this. He wanted to enter our stuff into a national competition because he thought our stuff was good enough to win. At an AC/BC meeting he floated the idea, got buy-in, and we tossed recipe ideas around and voted on a Red IPA. I made the initial recipe and some of us met at Launch Pad to fine tune it and got input from Paul (LP Brewer) and Jess Findlay-Schultz. Jess’ suggestion led to adding the rye. We brewed up a batch and entered it into the competition. It was selected as one of 6 finalists. Each finalist beer would be brewed by the club for a final competition. We wound up getting second place at the Rhode Island NHC that year. Andrew McArthur was there as a club representative. Each finalist beer also got a scale-up and a promise for Melvin to release the beer in the local area. A group of about 8 of us went up to Melvin’s production brewery for the Brew Day and shoulder days. Melvin treated us like kings, and we ate and drank for free and got SWAG too. Brew day had one hitch in that their head brewer Counrtney, didn’t use enough rice hulls and there was a stuck mash. The beer must have had some other problem. It was never released. AC/BC was given a bit of run around as to way and we never got a reason. It was (as were all the other finalists) on tap at a bar at a Melvin After-Party after one of the GABF sessions. Some of the club attended that and got a sample etc. Melvin then threw a ‘party’ for us as a club at Lowry Beer Garden. At some point one of the owners asked me how I liked our beer and I could tell if anything was off about it. I said that I couldn’t but by then I had had several beers and wasn’t able to give it a deep dive. It was this interaction that leads me to believe that Melvin didn’t release the beer

2020

The National Homebrew competition was canceled. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the Brew Hut almost closed down but kept the doors open only for curb side. Because the club couldn’t meet in the Brew Hut we decided to meet online. The first online January 3 2020 was the first online meeting, February 8 2021 on Google meet but after that Steve Stanley set us up to meet on Zoom. Online meetings went on until we had our first in person meeting at the Brew Hut on June of 2021. The Brew Hut shop was named the 2020 shop of the year. The Pilot House Brewery closed down. December 2020 was Ron Braun’s funeral.

2021

Marc Weathington stepped down and the following were elected as counsel
Elected officials were:
John Horton – President
Terry Mcawley – Vice President
Russell Willden – Secretary
Andrew McArthur elected as Tresurer as of January 1st 2021
Add Andrew McArthur to the bank account as Treasurer.
Counsel changed the bank account to show current officers. February 22 officers started construction of
the new By-Laws. February 26th of 2021 the ACBC bank account was moved to the BOK bank.
My information shows that because of the COVID-19 pandemic February 8 the 2021 we had a ACBC club meeting virtually on Google Meet. The dues were reduced to $10 for membership. On March 7
the we had a club meeting on Zoom which was set up by Stephen Stanley.

2022

Officers from 2021 were relected. The dues were upped from $10 (pandemic membership) to $20 for the year 2022.
Beer competitions that ACBC will target for 2022 were: Beer De Rock, Dread Hop, the Brew Hut and Half
Penny.
Steve Stanley started the BJCP beer judge classes
New ACBC t-shirts were ordered and made by Marcees Alixander.
At the Rocky mountain Homebrew competition ACBC took heavy metal club.
ACBC had glasses made for the club

At the September meeting Julia Herz (executive director of AHA) presented Style 6 beers.
ACBC August BBQ at Andrew’s house
March Co-Brewed with A Bit Twisted to make a hazy IPA that had hops with first names starting with A, C, B, C.

January 2023

The AC/BC holiday party at the Dam West Clubhouse

April 2023

April 15th starting at 5 am. The club is brewing a Collaboration Beer with the head brewer Matt at “A Bit
Twisted” brewery on The beer will be a hazy IPA with ACBC hops, Amarillo,Citra,Bu-1,and Cashmere
hops.

ACBC 2023

Many members did a Co- Brews with other memebers.

August 2023

Summer BBQ at Lori’s house.

September 2023

The 2023 Verticals for Vets Auction 2-6pm at the Launch Pad. The club was able to
get $16,000 from the auction. Among the many great auction items were a full vertical of rare Thomas
Hardy beers from 1986 to 1997. Also the Grainfather G70 V1 that was auctioned off. There was also a silent auction.

October 2023

The ACBC official website was designed and launched by club member Cody Collier

November 2023

November 4 Learn to Brew Day 2023 Julia Hertz, AHA Executive director, joined the many people brewing in the back of the Brew Hut. November 2023 elections. Russ decided not to run for Secretary for the 2024 year. John, Terry and Andrew all were to be officials for the year of 2024. Lori Parsons was elected to replace Russ as secretary.

May 2024

Big Brew Day 2024 took place with club members brewing behind the Brew Hut and in their homes. This year the club participated in the Weiz Guys Big Brew Day Competition where any AHA registered club can enter up to two entries to compete against other clubs after brewing one of the official Big Brew 2024 homebrew recipes provided by the AHA for Big Brew Day. Together the club brewed 5 different entries. We registered two of them and will choose as a club which two of the 5 we will enter. 

June 2024

The club had their monthly meeting and conducted a tasting to select which of the Big Brew Day Beers would be entered. The beers chosen to enter were the Dunkle, brewed by Cody, Isaac & Brian, and the Pale Ale, Brewed by Marc W. and John H. 

Also this month, Marc W. brewed his pro-am from Sweet Heart’s Revenge at Loveland Aleworks. It was a Belgian Golden Strong Ale.