1) The Guild holiday party will be on Saturday December 3 from 6-10 PM at Heavy Seas. Our club table theme will be “Beer – breakfast of champions.” We will select food items and figure out who is bringing what. (An offline discussion was held toward the end of the meeting but I did not attend as I was busy drinking beer.) You might want to wear whatever you normally sleep in, e.g., pajamas or a bathrobe. (If you sleep nude, you might want to forgo the wardrobe thing.) Order your tickets here: http://www.mdhomebrewers.com/?page_id=2
1) The Guild holiday party will be on Saturday December 3 from 6-10 PM at Heavy Seas. Please send along your ideas for the CRABS club table theme.
2) This year marks the 35th anniversary of CRABS.
3) The Baltimore Craft Beer Festival will take place this Saturday October 22 at Canton Waterfront Park. Nepenthe Homebrew will host a homebrew contest there.
1) Another great turnout with some new faces and lots of great beers from many breweries including Wicked Weed and Russian River.
2) This Saturday 7/23 is the Hometown Brewdown in Catonsville. Some CRABSters will be pouring beer. You can attend even if you don’t bring beer. See http://catonsvillecoop.com/ for more info.
1) Once again, a great turnout with several new faces. There was also a plethora of great commercial beers.
2) The National Homebrewers Conference was great fun. We poured beer on Thursday and Friday night. Joe O’Keefe, Rob Farrell, and John Jester all had beers in the final round of the competition. About 30 CRABSters attended. You can read a recap at http://www.benbrew.com/NHC/NHC2016/nhc2016.html
1) Great turnout again with several new faces. Special thanks to Craig Bryant for bringing two great beers from Troegs.
2) If you ordered a CRABS work shirt and don’t have it yet, contact Joe at jfo363@verizon.net . He also has T-shirts if you want them
3) Big Brew at Maryland Homebrew was a bit smaller than usual because there were events at 5 other locations, so the overall Maryland turnout was quite high. A total of roughly 300 gallons was brewed (93 of it at Maryland Homebrew).
1) Nicely attended meeting with several new folks. Lots of great beer as usual. Special recognition to Jason Heinen for his spectacular Chianti Lambik.
1) CRABS won the club table competition at the Guild holiday party, and we will do the watermen theme again at the National Homebrewers Conference (NHC). The event drew 295 people, and well over $7000 was raised for various charities.
2) Get your 2016 club dues to Don. They are $25 for individuals and $40 for families.
1) A great array of food, beer and people, plus a 750 swap, made our holiday party terrific. We also donated a significant amount of beer to the Heavy Seas staff for letting us use their facilities.
2) CRABS won the club table competition at the Guild holiday party. Kudos to those who contributed, particularly Jeff Adelsberger for all his great work.
