Meeting notes for Tuesday July 27th

Wow, what a great meeting. There were some awesome beers and meads tonight. It was a good variety of new brewer to seasoned ones.  Even the new daddy showed up. Congrats Andy, let us know when he can say attenuation!

If you'd like to write an article or review for the site let me know. Articles help new brewers, site traffic and ad revenue. It does not have to be the ultimate resource, just a starting point with were to go from there.

Dues:
We'll be re-upping the dues in Sept/Oct. Yearly dues are $5 a year, or $6 if you'd like to do paypal. Dues go for site hosting and covering NHC and competition costs.

Competitions:
We'll be doing a friendly lawn mower beer competition Thursday Aug 26th. Beers will be judged by popular opinion on what a lawn mower beer is. So submit what ever you like but it will be judges by your peers against their idea of a lawn mower beer. If you'd like to host this 3 hour meeting let me know.

For fall we were thinking of doing a iron brewer competition. There would be 2 or 3 rounds, The first round would be a easily accessible secret ingredient supplied by the brewer. We're trying to get the 2nd and third round secret ingredient sponsored (free).

Bulk Buys:

We'll be placing a bulk hop purchase from Farmhouse brewing supply, http://www.farmhousebrewingsupply.com/scripts/hopsList.asp?idCategory=21. If you'd like any hops let me know. They come in 4oz packs usually from $.65/oz to $1/oz. Way cheap. Let me know.

We're also making a bulk honey buy in Sept. for fresh harvest raw (none heated) honey. Its $22/gallon or $110/5 gallons.  Let me know.

Remember to tip the wait staff at Binkies or bring some extra homebrew for them. They put up with us and our tasting glasses.

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