As you are well aware, the MHBA's BIG HOLIDAY EVENT is this Friday, 6-10, in the CSPS Hall above the Glockenspiel in Saint Paul. Please bring a potluck dish (and recipe, if you want to win the People's Choice award for food item-there's prizes!). Bringing your own table service isn't a bad idea, but plastic plates, etc. will be available. Bring beer! Bring labeled homebrew for the Beer Exchange. Bring beer for public consumption and perhaps win the People's Choice award. (prizes!) Bring families. This is a great event to share with the significant other and the wee ones. Bring money! Paul Dienhart, the first-ever membership secretary, will be on hand to take your 2007 renewals. Remember-every renewing membership expires 12/31/06, so bring $15 to cover your 2007 dues. 2007 membership cards will be available. Members in good standing are eligible to use the new club library, administered by Joe Gerteis. He has tons of cool books and a counter-pressure filler available for check-out. Chris Smith is using the new filler for a club bottle-filling event before Upper Mississippi Mash-Out. Bring your inquisitive nature. At Teach a Friend Day, three nearly-identical brews were made. Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to attempt to figure out which brew had the extract added at which point. One had extract added for the full 60 minutes of the boil, one had extract added 30 minutes in, and the third had extract added at flame-out. Bring yourself to the CSPS Hall Friday night (the 8th) at 6:00! See you there. John