Date: Wednesday April 17, 2013
Place: Clipper City / Heavy Seas
- Once again, great attendance and lots of tasty pre-meeting beers.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- Big Brew will be on May 4 at MDHB.
- FOAM’s Battle of the Bubbles is coming up. See http://bob.brewcomp.com to enter or judge.
- 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
- 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
- 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
meeting_date:
April, 2013