Newsletters - February 2005
January Meeting Minutes
January Meeting was at the home of Marty Drinan in Newark. We had several new faces, and faces from the past that hadn't been seen for a while.
| Scott Bieber | British Amarillo Ale
Dogbolter British Ale |
| Garrett Sever | Dubbelweizen Disaster
Amarillo Pale Ale |
| Marty Drinan | "Not the kitchen sink" ale
Heavyweight Brewing Co Imperial Porter
Zhiguly Doppelbock (lithuania) |
| Jerry and Joyce Carney | Old Peculiar
Cooper's Sparkling Ale |
| John Biggins | Bourbon Cask-conditioned Alt
Weyerbacher Insanity Barleywine |
| Mike Degraff | Irish Ale
Stoudt's Dubbel |
| David Gobris | Mainsail Ale |
| Hank Keller | Iron Hill Anvil Ale |
| Eric Dolbow | |
| John & Cindy Cook | |
- Meeting began with informal chat and samplings of various brews
- Meeting was called to order and people moved from the kitchen to the living room where introductions were made all around
- Scott discussed the upcoming germany trip
- The Baltimore pub crawl (pictures available on the website in the gallery)
- Scott discussed the field trip that he and Marty made to the Heavyweight Brewing Co the weekend before (pictures available on the website in the gallery)
- Marty gave a tour of his steam-driven all-grain rig and other assorted gadgets
- February meeting will be at Oliver Weatherbee's and March at Joyce & Jerry Carney's.
- Meeting adjourned around 11:15pm.
Dutifully submitted,
-Garrett
The February Meeting of the First State Brewers will be held at the home of Oliver Weatherbee
The meeting is this Friday, February 18, 2005 at 7:30 p.m.
First State Brewer’s Blog
In case you have been out of the country or something, the club now has a blog.
Check it out here:
http://firststatebrewers.blogspot.com/
Please leave some comments, too!
Recent Club Communications:
From: Garrett
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:46 PM
To: Scott Bieber
Subject: Recipes on the site
Hey man. Sure you noticed, but we’ve got the recipes section live on the site. I put it on the sidebar for folks to go thru last night.
I had to make some revisions to the recipes (which I will upload tonight), but they are there...
I could add more detail, but I think what we’ve got right now is about the right level considering many of you that brew don’t keep track of little things like... oh... gravities... and ABV, etc...
Since I am (most likely) not going ot be at the next meeting, make sure you mention it as part of the meeting. Folks that want to contribute recipes should forward them to me and I’ll put them on the site.
-Garrett
From: Gerald J Carney
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:32 PM
To: Scott Bieber
Subject: Stuff
Scott,
Information on Brewery Tours that are scheduled to take place during the Craft Brewers Conference in April.
http://www.beertown.org/events/cbc/attendee/spec_events.html
Jerry
From: Gerald J Carney
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:13 PM
To: Scott Bieber
Subject: Stuff
Scott,
From Iron Hill West Chester
Hello beer enthusiasts,
I hope your holidays went well and you’re keeping warm with something
malty and strong!
I just wanted to let you know about our next Brewer’s Reserve at our
West Chester Location on Saturday February 19th. As usual we’ll be
bringing something special from each of our locations including a
four-year-old firken and two gold-medal winning beers. (These are the
actual batches that the judges at the Great American Beer Festival tasted).
This reserve will also feature some very rare brews my friends and old
co-workers at Harpoon Brewery will be bringing down from Boston. Among them
will be a cask conditioned, oak-aged IPA. (FYI you can’t get
cask-conditioned Harpoon outside of the brewery, not even in Boston).
In addition to our usual Brewer’s reserve gathering, rare beers and
brewery tours, Dan and I will prepare a special four course beer dinner
with each dish paired with one of the reserve beers. The beer dinner will
be available throughout the restaurant for as long as the beers last.
So please join us for dinner, or just a few special beers. The reserve
beers and beer-dinner will both be available at 5 p.m. Tours will begin at
6:30. The beers will be available until they run out! A list of the
reserve beers and the beer dinner menu are at the bottom of this e-mail.
Please e-mail or call me if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Chris LaPierre
Head Brewer
Iron Hill, West Chester
610-738-9600
ON TAP
Oak-aged, cask-conditioned IPA
Harpoon Brewery, Boston
Smoked Porter
Harpoon Brewery, Boston
Oud Bruin
Iron Hill, West Chester
Imperial IPA
Iron Hill, Newark
Russian Imperial Stout
Iron Hill, Media
Belgian Tripel
Iron Hill, North Wales
Wee Heavy
Iron Hill, Wilmington
Bourbon Wee Heavy
Iron Hill, West Chester
2001 Cask-conditioned Wee Heavy
Iron Hill, West Chester
BREWER’S RESERVE BEER DINNER
35.75 per person not including tax and gratuity
Course 1: Harpoon Oak-aged Cask IPA
Ahi Tuna and Salmon Tartare………..
Spicy citrus vinaigrette and sesame tuile
Course 2: Wee Heavy (Scotch Ale)
Mesclun Greens Salad
Maytag blue cheese, spiced pecans and maple-sherry vinaigrette
Course 3: Belgian Tripel
Herb Crusted Veal Chop
Prosciutto wrapped asparagus, white bean ragout and basil-lemon sauce
Course 4: Russian Imperial Stout
Belgian Chocolate and Hazelnut Torte
Frangelica crème anglaise
From: Garrett
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:42 PM
To: Scott Bieber
Subject: Wort’s Hoppening
Where the hell is the newsletter? It’s Wednesday and the meeting is in 2 days!!!
