April 2013

Date: Wednesday April 17, 2013
Place: Clipper City / Heavy Seas
  1. Once again, great attendance and lots of tasty pre-meeting beers.
  2. The National Homebrewers Conference is coming to Philly on June 27-29. If you are looking for lodging, check out https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au68r6QOAKuLdFQ2eHBVWU5OdDFWS0N3dkRZR01yQkE&usp=sharing#gid=0 for a list of homebrewers who already have rooms and sign up to share a room.
  3. Congrats to Jason Heinen for winning the Belgian/French category at Wootown’s 3rd annual Barley Legal competition. See http://www.wootown.org/comp/2013results/BL3_PRELIMINARY_RESULTS.pdf
  4. BURP’s Spirit of Free Beer homebrew competition will be held on Saturday May 11. See http://brew.burp.org/Events/SpiritofFreeBeer2013.aspx for details.
  5. The annual food/beer pairing will be on Saturday May 18 at Trevor’s house. We will still have a regular meeting that month on the 15th (the theme will be session beers).
  6. Big Brew will be on May 4 at MDHB.
  7. FOAM’s Battle of the Bubbles is coming up. See http://bob.brewcomp.com to enter or judge.
  8. The Guild summer picnic will be on Saturday June 8 at Patapsco State Park, Hollofield area, shelter 301, noon to dusk. We will have the wheat beer contest again
  9. CRABS is scheduled to host the January/February 2014 AHA club-only competition. The style will be sours (category 17). We need to decide on a date. A Saturday in January or February makes sense. See http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/competitions/club-only-competitions/schedule/2013-2014-competition-year
  10. The porter competition had 11 entries. The winners were:
    •     5th – Joe O’Keefe
    •     4th – Tim Brown
    •     3rd – Rick Croop
    •     2nd – Jeff Adelsberger
    •     1st – Jarrod Salvastrini

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April, 2013