CSPSaturday Afternoon, February 1, 2003

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings MHBA Club members and future members. Rick here with an = exciting announcement that may influence your early afternoon plans - = BEER. Who says you can't buy votes? =20 Before we get involved with the beer, remember today defines the next = year of club business; financial, locations, opportunities, and = participation levels. If you would the club to think about something, = this is your day to speak up. OK, now the beer At the CSPS Hall, starting around 1:00 four tap beers will arrive from = the Garden View Brewing Brewing Company. OK, It is actually from my = basement brewery but it is a fun name and it matches the view of Dawns' = rose garden. =20 What are they? There are red ones, violet ones, roses with unique = names... No, not the roses - the varieties of beer? =20 1.. Steam Beer=20 2.. Pale Ale (controlled hop level)=20 3.. Pale Ale - (IBU contender)=20 4.. Big Red. =20 The first three are typical beverages produced to style guidelines (for = the most part) and represent containers that are almost ready for = recycling. Big Red, on the other hand, is a beer produced more along = commercial style guidelines of an Irish Red Ale. It was produced with = moderate (for my brewery) original gravity of 1.055, very low hop levels = in flavor and aroma, and a very nice balanced red color, malt, lace. = The fun thing about this beer was pitching it on the stout dregs and = seeing it achieve high krausen in about 30 minutes! The beer was winter = fermented in a cold water bath and it was a challenge keeping the = fermenting temperature below 70=B0f. The challenge didn't last long = however - it finished in about 2 days! =20 So there you have it. At least 10 reasons to show up and enjoy the = meeting. Remember, this is the beginning of the new club year and as = Vice President, I am breaking out some of our classic original club = glasses. New members with paid memberships - would you like to claim = your glass? =20 Please attend this afternoon or you will never know what you're missing. = =20 Regards and fun stuff Rick Oftel VP MHBA -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: image/gif -- File: Emoticon37.gif