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Happy Thanksgiving, Baltibrewers!

Here's hoping you all get to spend your day with family, friends, and someone you love. We're truly thankful to have such a great cast of brewers involved with our club, and we look forward to brewing better, bigger, and badder beers with each of you.

What are you drinking with your Thanksgiving dinner? Let us know!

Remember that the Guild Holiday Party is a week from Saturday. Tickets are still available, and we hope you'll help us represent Baltibrew again this year at Heavy Seas Brewery. We're also doing a bit of holiday fun at our upcoming December 19th meeting at Nepenthe. We'll limit club business to 2014 officer elections, dues payment, and the January collective brew day. Hope to see you there.

It's  the busiest brew month of the year. We get that, and we know that next week is going to destroy most of the remaining livers we collectively possess.

BUT! it's also still regular meeting time for Baltibrew at Dionysus at 8 p.m. tomorrow night and we have a lot of stuff to get worked out. We'll be meeting on the second floor again this month. While there's work to be done, we'll have a ton of homebrew to taste as well.

Agenda:

• Chilibrew VI
• Guild Holiday Party planning
• Guild meeting recap
• November Group Brew (Mead mazing?)
• Baltimore Beer Week
• Upcoming Events (Gruit comp, etc.)
• Member homebrew sampling

We're brewing two different beers today at member Ian McDonald's house which is at 312 E. Belvedere Avenue.

These beers are in preparation for our Guild Holiday Party theme. Expect chocolate and caramel.

Hope to see you there.

Pics coming soon, but just so you know, we won the Guild Holiday Party Club Hour Competition, and our club name takes its place on the "door prize." The cohesiveness of our Nightmare Before Christmas theme beat out our fierce competition.

We did a great job this year, and let's do our best to keep it up for next year.

Happy pre-Thanksgiving, Baltibrewers!

Lots to discuss:

1. This Saturday (11/26) we're returning to Josh Rosen's house to keg our Guild Holiday Party beer. This is also a great time to finalize menu for our club hour and get things planned and sorted before we have to make the push to prep for the party.
2. This Sunday (11/27) a fellow club on the Eastern Shore (OCMHB) is holding their East vs. West competition in Berlin, MD. They still need judges and stewards, have about 67 entries, and will be putting up BJCP certified judges at a hotel for free. Details on their competition site.
3. A week from this Thursday (12/1) we will be meeting at Greg Slack's house to prepare for Saturday's Guild Holiday Party. More details on that to come.
4. And last but not least by any means, Guild Holiday Party is on Saturday Dec. 3rd. You already know if you're going, because tickets are sold out!

Hope you're having a great run-up to the holidays, and hope you get to drink some great beers with your Thanksgiving meal.

Guild Holiday Party Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9a.m. DO NOT sleep on buying them, as this ALWAYS sells out fast. More details about the charities involved can be found on the guild site linked in the last sentence. We really want to have a heavy presence at this event. Baltibrew is the fastest growing club in the state, the youngest on average, and — we think — the most diverse. Let's show the rest of the clubs what we're all about.

Minutes from last Thursday's meeting are after the jump. As noted at the meeting, please read these here. They're posted to the website specifically so we don't have to re-hash all aspects of old business from the previous meeting. This saves us time, and gets us down to the ACTUAL business at hand of drinking, sharing, and discussing homebrew.

In addition to the link to minutes, if you won't take my word for how fun the Guild Holiday Party is, I've included a more thorough description.

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Quick reminder that we'll be meeting on 11-3; 8p.m. at Alewife. That's tomorrow.

In addition to this Thursday's meeting, we have been invited to Wootown's annual Mead mazing at the home of Lloyd and Ruth-Ann Snyder. This is a bit of a hike up to White Hall, MD, but it's always a good time and an interesting opportunity to interact with another club, see how they brew, see how they conduct business, and also to take home some mead. Cost for a fermenter is usually around $30, so bring cash or your checkbook. I'll try to give a specific amount before the date.

Agenda after the jump.

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Seems appropriate that we'll be brewing a Nightmare Before Christmas ale on the day before Halloween. The current iteration of the recipe is fairly interesting — without giving too much away, think off-kilter Xmas cookies.

We're only brewing 10 gallons, so there will not be any available for club purchase. If you have your own rig, feel free to do your own brew.

Brew day starts early as usual, bring food, beer to share, chairs, etc. We're meeting at Josh's place to get started at 9 in the a.m. Check the phone list if you need to get a hold of Josh by phone.

We have a tie, so now we'll have another vote.

We brew on the 30th at Josh Rosen's house, so we'll need to have this locked up tight by Friday in order to formulate a recipe, and pick up ingredients.

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Baltibrew met this past Thursday at Alewife and discussed a wide variety of things. Mainly Chilibrew IV, which went over like gangbusters! But we also got into discussing our plans for the Guild Holiday Party. As mentioned last year, the event is tons of fun, and ALWAYS sells out quickly. We want to ensure that we have a very big presence at the event so make sure you get on purchasing your tickets as soon as we send out the notification that tickets are on sale.

The theme for the party is "TV Dinner," so basically comfort foods from the 1950s, not necessarily actual TV dinner items like Salisbury Steak, etc.

As it went last year, there will be a club hour, and this year we can pick any theme we want, but it has to be tightly produced. The beer has to be consistent with the theme, as do the appetizers, etc.

We've come up with a few ideas, but we would like you to vote on them. We NEED you to comment when you vote on which theme you like with supporting ideas for each theme. Let's do our best to win this year's club hour competition with the most interesting, and cohesive theme. This poll will close in a week, and we'll RE-vote on the top two theme ideas that are best supported with your own ideas for them.

First, MINUTES!

Then the poll.

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