Worthogs Homebrew Club

10/03/2025

Worthogs Home Brew Club meeting in the books. Neil did a talk about sour and funky beers, enlightening us about Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, and Pedicoccus and offered samples of kettle sour, spontaneously fermented, lambic and wild fermented beers.

We also tasted the 4 humbprint variations brewed of the beer "Lifehack" from and they were delicious, and as usual, tastes our homebrewed beers from the members🍺

Shout out to as well as a huge thank you to for hosting our monthly meeting!🎉🍺☀️😍🍻

See you next Saturday, October 11th for our annual Octoberfest!🧑‍🌾🍻

10/01/2025

08/20/2025

Pov: when you love your homebrew club so much, you are THIS happy to pay dues😃🙌🍺🤩🩷🍺😄😄✨️

08/08/2025

August Club meeting! Thank you for providing us the space🤩🍺🫶

Neil spoke about hops and hop care as well as insights on dry hopping for our next competition; double and triple IPA.

We also exchanged out 12 Beers of Summer ☀️

🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

08/07/2025

Club meeting Thursday, August 7th will be at Turtle Mountain
Brewing, 905 36th Place SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124. As usual the social
starts at 6pm and the meeting starts at 6:30pm.

The topic of the meeting is "Put the hops in the beer, drink 'em both
down" - a talk about dry hopping by Neil Arnote

✨️We will be having our "12 beers of Summer" exchange at this meeting✨️

Please bring your beers to be exchanged in 12 oz bottles or 22oz
bottles. Each participant will get either two 12 oz bottles of one 22oz
bottle. Please respond to Jared's semail.

We will also be starting our Thumbprint Challenge - A Citra Pale Ale
made with different Kveik yeasts. We will have four teams and the teams
have until our October meeting to have their beer ready. The beer kits
will be given to the team captains at this meeting.

See you there!☀️🍺

07/16/2025

Member Brew Day!🍻🍺😃🙌 Check out these sweet pictures from Christine brewing a dunkel.

Cheers!!🍻🍺✨️

07/14/2025

Collaboration brew with ! A saison is now fermenting after a hard days work😄

Thank you SO much, John, for being such a fun, gracious, and patient host!🙌👌

We'll do a pick -nick day with tasting in August, date TBD.

07/08/2025

Our next meeting will be this Thursday July 10th at Thirsty Eye Brewing,
206 Broadway Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. As usual the social starts
at 6pm and the meeting starts at 6:30pm.

For this meeting we ask that you bring out your beers/mead/ciders etc. We will be tasting one at a time and will give constructive
feedback about it, like aroma, flavors, body, etc. and discuss any flaws
that might be present, any improvements, and any kudos.

John will also be discussing our collaboration brew with Thirsty Eye!✨️🍺

06/15/2025

Saying goodbye to our members (and former president), Jason and Valerie was a bitter sweet affair! We are so sad to see them go, but we're excited for their new adventure!💝

06/06/2025

Saturday June 14th - Tri-Club Social - Beer Creek Brewing - Santa Fe -
Noon
    - Meeting up at 11am at SWGG for any of you interested in carpooling

Thursday July 10th - Meeting - Beer tasting and in depth analysis
    - Please bring out your beers, mead, ciders, and/or wines and we will
be tasting one at a time and give you constructive feedback on it

Sunday July 13th - Collab Brew Day at Thirsty Eye Brewing - 10am
    - Benny has setup a collaboration brew with Thirsty Eye to brew up a
Saison.
    - If you have not already sent them one of your Saison recipes,
please do ASAP! Let us know and we'll give you the email.

Thursday August 7th - 12 Beers of Summer Exchange after the meeting
    - Please sign up on the club's page or let us know if you would like to sign up.

Thursday August 7th - Meeting - Topic needed - Please let me know if you
have a talk you would like to discuss or present

Cheers!
Jared

06/06/2025

Our Worthog June meeting is in the books with the tasting and voting of Round Two of our "Brewer of the Year Competition". The category this time was "Non-Beer Only - Mead, Cider, Wine (Fruit, Vegetable and/or Spice).

We had 13 entries, ranging from mead to tepache as well as cider and wine, and this time tried a new way of blind tasting all the entries, which worked really well.

We also welcomed our new members: Wyatt and Thomas🥳😃

06/06/2025

Congratulations to these awesome winners of the Round Two, Brewer of the Year Competition;

"Aaron Knows Best"
 Non-Beer Only - Mead, Cider, Wine
      Fruit, Vegetable and/or Spice (Added flavors to a base)
      BJCP Category M2, M3, C2B, & C2E
      For Reference only: BJCP Category 29 & 30

1st place; Ryan -with a Blueberry Mead.
2nd place; Christine - with a Pineapple Tepache.
3rd place shared; Jared with a Margarita Mead, Aaron with a Blueberry Mead and Neil with a Hibiscus and Redberry Mead.

Congratulations!🎉🥳🏅