Items on the agenda are:

• Ed Topic: “Kegging beer — How to reduce the time between grain and brain”
• Big Brew wrap-up
• Guild Meeting review
• Guild Summer Picnic
• Jockey Box funding
• Ian’s next CSB brewday
• Chilibrew subcommittee volunteers/conscription.
• Next brew day: Where? When? What?

Bring a chair, and bring homebrew to share!

Minutes!

Baltibrew’s 2013 Big Brew participation will take place at Nepenthe this Saturday, May the 4th. Further details on the event can be found on the facebook event created by Nepenthe.

The long and short is that some of our members and a few of Brewtherville Labs’ members will be brewing in Nepenthe’s parking lot starting at 10 a.m.

If you’re interested in brewing at the event, contact us to get coordinated.

Those of you who’ve already committed to brewing, please get your recipes to the folks at Nepenthe asap.

April meeting will take place Thursday, 4-18 at our new regular spot, Nepenthe Homebrew, located in Meadow Mill at 3600 Clipper Mill Road #130 a. Once again, bring your own chair to meeting. Meeting starts at 8 p.m. sharp.

Agenda:

1. Ed topic: Hops/IPAs plus a general “Fix my stuck fermentation talk”
2. April/May (Big) Brew consolidation (and how this affects subsequent brew schedules)
3. Brief NHC discussion (Baltibrew club support? Or attendee support only?)
4. Homebrew Bike Tour
5. Treasury/Accounts finalization
6. Replacing Guild Rep
7. Guild Picnic

See you there.

Starting March 21st, we will begin meeting at Nepenthe Homebrew, located in Meadow Mill at 3600 Clipper Mill Road #130 a.

Meeting time will still be 8 p.m, which is closing time for the shop, so get there early if you want to buy stuff. At least for this meeting, bring your own chair. 

You may (and should) still bring homebrew to meeting.

Baltibrew is involved as a sponsor with Wootown’s Barley Legal homebrew competition coming up on March 23rd. There’s still time to submit your homebrew to the competition (March 16th deadline), but what we really need from Baltibrewers is your time to serve as a judge or a steward for the event. As the details on the site linked above will tell you, there’s some great prizes available, and in the competition’s past, volunteers have been very well taken care of.

Baltibrew is also gearing up for the National Homebrewer’s Conference in Philadelphia this June. We’ve picked out an interesting theme for club night, and we’re starting work on beers to showcase how unique our club is. Even if you’re not planning to attend the conference, your input would be invaluable.

Last but not least, in gearing up for the 15th anniversary of the Free State Homebrewer’s Guild, the guild has put out a survey that we’d like you to take. Deadline to complete the survey is March 10th.

Mike Pietropaoli will be doing the Rye-PA Brew-In-A-Bag style. If you’re unfamiliar with that unique process, this would be a great opportunity to learn all about it.

Jon has also invited members to bring their own rigs, and brew alongside him.

As usual, bring food and beer to share. Brew day starts at 10 a.m. sharp.

AHA Conference

AHA Philly Conference (a.k.a. the National Homebrewer’s Conference, June 27–29) tickets go on sale Tuesday afternoon (February 5th), and hotel bookings begin that morning. To register, you must be an AHA member. Sign up if you haven’t already, and intend to purchase tickets.

Much like our own Guild Holiday Party, this will sell out incredibly fast. Baltibrew, and many other Maryland clubs plan to attend the event. Philly is reputedly woefully under-represented on the homebrew front; the Free State intends to take up their slack.

We will send out a reminder prior to opening of sales to buy your tickets, but we’d very much like to have an idea who from Baltibrew plans to go so we can organize rideshares, hotel roommates, etc. Sound off in the comment thread of this post if you’re planning to go, please.

Barley Legal III

Last but not least…

In conjunction with Wootown, Baltibrew has agreed to participate as co-organizers of the Barley Legal homebrew competition to be held March 23rd. More details on that to come, but keep it in mind for your brew scheduling.

Read the minutes from the meeting to catch up on Baltibrew news.

The club will convene on Groundhog Day at Jon Blair’s house to brew. More details on that soon.

Officer Installations:

Baltibrew is proud to announce its duly elected 2013 offcers.

• Guild Representative: Mike Pietropaoli
• Education Director: Jon Blair
• Treasurer: Nick Lindow
• Secretary: Ryan Boddy

Agenda:

• Announcement and installation of officers
• Dues collection
• AHA Conference reminder and planning

And of course we’ll try some delicious homebrew.

Hope to see you there.