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SSBC Newsletter
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March 2009
"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer."
-Dave Barry
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Meeting Minutes - 3.10.09
17 Members attended.
Business:
The South Shore Brewoff is on April 18. The appropriate stuff is in motion - pick-up locations have been setup, fliers dropped off, etc. Need a food coordinator - Frank W. volunteered. Breakfast will be provided at 8:00, judging will start by 9:00. If you want to judge or steward be sure to sign up on the web site. Steve G. asked for people to get sponsors to supply prizes - he will send another e-mail on this.
Group brew - what date? What style? Quadruple was voted on at the steering committee meeting, so we'll stick with that. Bottling of last year's braggot will be on May 2nd at Bill's. Group brew is planned for May 30th. We need to find a bunch of Belgian yeast for the brew. Len will check if Trinity will have anything available around then. Jim Bowser will also check with Allagash.
SSBC Braggot will get enetered in the Mead Free Or Die competition. Club members should enter meads if they have them, as the winningest club gets a 55 gal barrel of honey. Visit MeadFreeOrDie.com.
Bill has placed the honey order and plans to pick it up next Wednesday. He'll need the money when you pick up your share.
April SSBC meeting is at Brian Shurtleff's. Mary Anne will do the presentation on growing hops. Everyone will need to bring different types of beer glasses for the other topic (if they have them), which is 'the effect of different glass types on beer enjoyment'. Ideally each member could bring a goblet and/or brandy snifter, pilsner glass, nonick pint/imperial pint (English-style pint), tulip glass. Jim Blanchette will send an e-mail to get this going and to coordinate what beers the members will bring to try in these glasses. We'll need at the least something malty, something hoppy, something phenolic, and something alcoholic.
NERAX is March 25-28. They have 90 firkins, 40 from the UK, some from Denmark and Germany and a bunch from the US. Pre-sale tix are almost gone, so if you want to go you'll probably need to wait in line (get there early, the line gets long).
Presentation:
Dunkel Presentation and Competition by Al Filion
Bavaria became reknowned for their beer. At the end of the 19th century, light beers started becoming possible (due to adavances in malting) and also became quite popular. But slightly darkened malt was also available to get slight color adjustments for slightly darker beers (using Munich malts). Beers made with the darker malts, like Dunkel, became and remained popular in Germany and Czech.
Samples:
- Beck's Dark
- St. Pauli Girl Dark
- Warsteiner Dunkel
- Negra Modelo (more of a Vienna)
- Jacobsen Dark Lager
Dunkel Competition:
5 entries
Winners:
3rd - Jim Blanchette
2nd - Frank White
1st - Kevin Farrell
If there are any updates or corrections, please contact Rick Rodriguez
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