Newsletters - March 2004

February Meeting Minutes:

The February meeting of the First State Brewers was held at the home of Brad & Kelly Jolicoeur.

The meeting was called to order by Hank Keller.

Items of discussion:

Jerry Is going to contact Out And About to see what type of support they would like us to provide for the Beer festival they are hosting in April.
The April meeting will host the Ale Competition at Hank’s house (Editor’s Note: Hank has a conflict!)
The Philly trip was moved out to May when the weather will be a little warmer

Rules for April Ale competition:

There is a Lager category and an Ale category
Lager entries are for beers that have been cooled during fermentation
Ale entries have Ale in the name of the beer
Judging will be blind with numbered beers
Entries will be registered with Hank prior to the start of the competition
The recipes for the winning beers will be published in the newsletter
Anyone can enter a beer
Judging will be done through a points system. The beer with the most points wins
There will be two $20 gift certificates from How Do You Brew? Awarded

Winner of Lager category
Winner of Ales category

Attendees:	Brews:
Hank Keller	Magic Hat Ale
Jerry Carney
Joyce Carney
Joe Hancher
Kelly Jolicoeur
Brad Jolicoeur	Wersteiner mini keg & Sam Adams Triple Bock
Marty Drinal	Bob’s Hops
Jeff Ramberg

Future Meeting Locations:

March Jerry & Joyce Carney

April Hank Keller (Editor’s Note: Hank has a conflict!)

May Marty Drinan

June Jeff Ramberg

Recent Club Communications:

From: Hank and Anjou

ATTN ALL:

There is a problem with my hosting of the April meeting – I will not be in the area (kids spring break trip). So this also throws a wrench in the competition I have been planning. 2 possible solutions: (1) postpone the competition until May (which I’ll be happy to host) or (2) whoever hosts the April meeting can take the duties of the competition.

We’ll discuss this at Jerry’s.

HANK

From: “Joe Uknalis”

Subject: Best of Philly 2004 homebrew competition

The Homebrewers of Philly & Suburbs (HOPS) will be holding our first LEGAL competition (we’re 21 now!) on April 24, 2004 at the Nodding Head Brewery & Rest.

The BJCP sanctioned competition info can be found at:

http://www.hopsclub.org/archives/hops-bops_2004/index.html

Our mail in deadline (as well as dropoff) is 4/17/04 at the ship to address is:

HomeSweet Homebrew

2008 Sansom St

Phila, PA 19103

215-569-9469 (Ask for Nancy or George)

Entry forms can be found at this location or Keystone Homebrew in Montgomeryville (also a dropoff point).

We are experimenting with just having a ‘internet only’ competition to reduce dead trees.

No mailings will be going out. Please enter early & often!

Judges & stewards are encouraged to contact Joe (birman at netaxs.com) to sign up.

thanks

Joe

From: Garrett Sever

To: membership@firststatebrewers.com
Subject: Still around?

Hey.

I am just starting into home brewing and didn’t know if you guys were still around. The website hasn’t been updated in 2 or 3 months, and was interested in finding an organization to join in the area. I live in Newark.

Thanks and best regards,

-Garrett Sever

From: Garrett Sever
To: 'Scott Bieber'
Subject: RE: Still around?

Scott,

Don’t know if you’re at all interested... but I do a little bit of programming / web stuff as a hobby too.

I took some of the basic material from your site (not all, for sure – just enough for a mock-up) and put together this:

http://www.thesevers.com/fsbbeta

If the club is interested and would like me to continue with the design, I’d be happy to do so. If not, no big deal. We can discuss it on the 19^th. In the meantime, I would love to hear your personal opinions. I might have to rewrite small portions of it depending on what your site host provides in the way of server-side scripting (ASP / PHP / etc.), but that wouldn’t take much.

Best regards,

-Garrett

From: Hank and Anjou Keller

Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:20 AM

Subject: RE: Stuff

I didn’t even think about sending the winners to the AHA - sounds like a plan. I guess if we do send the results, we’ll have to make it sound more “professional” than it actually probably will be!! We agreed that we’re going to have 3 categories: ale, lager, and “others”. Specific rules, scoring, etc will be distributed at the March er..... Guinness meeting at Jerry’s!!

See you then!

HANK

From: Gerald J Carney

Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:07 PM

Subject: Stuff

Scott And El Presidente

What about sending our Club Beer Competition Winners To The AHA National Homebrew Competition.

Jerry

From: Monica Tall

Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 2:53 PM

Subject: Redesigned AHA’s Competition and Conference Websites

Hello All -

We’ve redesigned the AHA’s National Homebrew Competition and National Homebrewers Conference websites to help you and other homebrewers and beer lovers find important information more quickly and easily. We’re adding new information to these sites every week! Check them out at www.beertown.org:

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AHA’s 26^th Annual National Homebrew Competition:

http://www.beertown.org/events/nhc/index.html **ENTRIES DUE** April 7 - 16, 2004 AHA 26^th Annual National Homebrewers Conference:

http://www.beertown.org/events/hbc/index.html

‘Beer and Loafing in Las Vegas’ - June 17-19, 2004

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HELP US PROMOTE the competition and conference around your community.

Hang

up posters!

Download and print competition and conference posters from the redesigned sites. Check them out at (click on the “CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD POSTER”):

AHA National Homebrew Competition Poster:

http://www.beertown.org/events/nhc/poster.html AHA National Homebrewers Conference Poster: