Newsletters - January 2004
December Meeting Minutes
The December meeting of the First State Brewers was held at Walt and Karen Berstler's house.
The meeting was called to order by Jeff Ramberg and the floor was reopened for new nominations for 2004 officers and a motion was made and seconded to elect all nominated officers since all were running unopposed.
2004 Officers are as follows:
President: Hank Keller
Vice President: John Brannon
Treasurer: Jeff Ramberg
Secretary: Brad Jolicoeur
The December meeting experienced the return of John Collins who wondered if anyone brewed beer anymore.
While there were a number of excellent purchased beers at the meeting there was a distinct lack of home brewed beverages and purchased beer will not be mentioned to protect the not so innocent (myself included).
The theme for the January meeting will be Weirdest Christmas beer:
- Bring any unusual Christmas beers including unusual labels, names or flavors
John Biggins would like help planning a pub-crawl in Philly
Attendees:
Jeff Ramberg
John Collins
Scott Bieber
Marty Drinan
Jerry & Joyce Carney
Walt & Karen Berstler
John Biggins
Brad & Kelly Jolicoeur
Hank Keller
Meeting locations for next 4 months per Oct 17th meeting notes:
January: John Brannon
February: Bill and Stacy
March: Jerry Carney(of course)
April: Hank Keller (Indian food, mmmmm)
Recent Club Communications
From: Gerald J Carney
Subject: Stuff
Scott,
I got this URL from the HBD this morning. "http://snafu.alfter.us/compform.html" It prints out bottle lables for competitions. The author has given permission to add it to club Web Pages. I tried it out and it seems to work very well. Jerry
From: Gerald J Carney
To: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
Subject: Stuff
Scott,
Thought this might be of interest.
Jerry
Buzz will host a home brewer's swap meet on Saturday, January 31, 10-12, at
the Brew By You store in Malvern. Bring whatever you'd like to sell or
swap and meet other homebrewers to pick up cool stuff or get rid of your junk. Excess of something? Tired of something? Need something? Come on out. Can't make it on Saturday but still have something to sell? Put your name, phone number and asking price on your treasure and drop it off with Bill on the Friday before. But it's better to be there in person to negotiate.
Please pass the word to your clubs and other brewers who may be interested. If this works out, this could become a regular event!
Dave Houseman
From: newsletter-owner@heavyweight-brewing.com
To: Beer Lovers
Subject: Heavyweight Brewing News
Happy New Year!
With respect to whatever you celebrate and hold dear, we hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season filled with peace and good beer.
We wish to invite you and yours to our next open house/tour and sampling on Saturday, January 24th from 1-4 pm. We will debut our smoked beer, Cinderbock Lager. We'll also be sampling some of our new farmhouse beer, Biere d'Art. By the way, if you missed the last open house, we still have some barleywine vintage 4-packs for sale.
If you are in the NYC area, Wednesday, January 14th, The Blind Tiger features the next Heavyweight Bout III. Dave and Phil will be pouring nine of our beers. This will be your last opportunity to taste the first four OTOP beers (Regal Pale, Triticum Bock, Bizzaro and Broth Wee Heavy). The Tiger will also have the first kegs of Cinderbock and Biere d'Art. Other special beers include a wood-aged Old Salty and an old keg of Perkuno. We'll be there of course.
If you're in the Washington DC area, you probably already know about Strong Beer Tastings at the Brickskeller on January 14th/15th. Heavyweight will be there on Thursday (15th) with another keg of wood-aged Old Salty. Then on Saturday, the 17th, we're off to Boston for BeerAdvocate's Extreme Beer Fest at the Cyclorama. This should be a great beer fest with beers that push the envelope. We'll be pouring Old Salty, Perkuno's Hammer and Cinderbock.
We hope to see you soon. As always, thanks for supporting small breweries.
Tom and Peggy
From: Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant [mail
To:geninfo@ironhillbrewery.com]
To: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
Subject: Iron Hill Wilmington Hosts West Coast Brewers
EAST MEETS WEST BREWERS' RESERVE AT IRON HILL WILMINGTON
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Iron Hill Wilmington Hosts Six West Coast Breweries for Brewers' Reserve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WILMINGTON RIVERFRONT - On Friday, January 30 at 8 pm, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant (Riverfront Wilmington location only), will host a special EAST MEETS WEST Brewers' Reserve Night featuring BIG HOPPY BEERS from six West Coast breweries as well some BIG HOPPY BEERS from Iron Hill.
Meet and greet the Head Brewer from these visiting West Coast breweries: Stone Brewing Company, Pizza Port Brewing Company and Oggi's Pizza and Brewing Company in San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Brewing Company in Santa Barbara, CA; Russian River Brewing Company in Guerneville, CA; and Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, CO.
Free Stuff
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Iron Hill will give away signature copper and black pint glasses to the first fifty guests. In addition, the West Coast breweries have promised to bring a bunch of cool free stuff from their breweries.
General Info
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Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, Wilmington Riverfront, 720 Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 302-658-8200
web: http://ironhillbrewery.com
From: Itala Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Downtown Brewing Co.
I didn't know if you heard that the Downtown Brewing Co. (right across from
where I work) is now closed... for good... gone.... bankrupt! broke!
Itala
From: Jim Curtis
To: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
Subject: Beer site
Hi,
My name is Jim Curtis and I have a brewpub guide and general beer site at www.beer100.com .
I would love a link if you could, and comments about the site are appreciated.
Jim
From: Lou Gatti
To: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
Subject: First State Brewers
Scott,
I obtained a flier about the First State Brewers from the How Do You Brew? brewing supply store. I am interested in joining up with First State Brewers. I used to brew and belonged to the Sultan's of Swig Homebrew Club in the Buffalo New York area. I had to cease brewing for several years and am restarting (third batch is lagering in the beer fridge).
I went to the Web Site and saw the 2004 meeting schedule, I travel for work and usually it is not my call. At the moment I should be around for the January meeting so if you could send me some details and I would appreciate it.
Cheers.
Lou Gatti
From: Ben Nemenoff
To: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: brewing books
Scott,
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into that book. I'm in Bismarck, North Dakota and thinking of starting to homebrew as a hobby. Your Web site is great, by the way. Thanks, Ben Nemenoff
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From: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
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To: Ben Nemenoff
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Subject: Re: brewing books
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>Ben,
> This book is a must for any new homebrewers!
>
>The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition
>by Charles Papazian
>List Price: $14.95
>You can buy it at Amazon.com for $10.47.
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>Where are you from? Do you live in the Delaware area?
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>Cheers,
>Scott
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From: Ben Nemenoff
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To: firststatebrewer@earthlink.net
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Subject: brewing books
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>Scott,
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>I am interested in starting homebrewing beer as a hobby. Do you know of
>any books that include recipes and other important info on brewing for
>someone who is just starting out?
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>Thanks and happy holidays.
>
>Ben Nemenoff
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