President’s Message
                                One to write
                                Two to read

This month we are going to add another message rating system. HOW many
beers and or meads you the reader should have to read this message. This
will be know as the “to read” rating. This message is rated at Two to Read.


This month’s BOTY competition had four entries with the first place going
to Scott and Denise for their American Brown Ale. Second place was awarded
to Mark Kelly for his American Pale Ale and I slipped in for a third place
with my American Amber. I think we took Russell’s challenge to heart and
improved on the quality of last years American Ale entries.
Next month’s style is open to all styles of extract beers. I hope many of
you can find the time to put together a brew or two.

This brings us to the BIG BREW. We are looking to hold this fine event on
May 13, 09:00am at the Hickey house. The Big Brew is May 6 and can be held
on that date but could not be held at my house due to the fact that I will
be working that day. So please e-mail the group with suggestions. Next,
what to brew? The two beers that the AHA has put out are interesting and as
follows Poor Richard’s Ale and Summer Kolsch. You can look at the recipes
on the AHA web site. So e-mail the group with your choice. We need to order
the ingredients soon.

This month Tech Talk will be on off flavors found in beers. We are going to
do something different. We are asking you the membership to bring beers to
the meeting that have or you think have off flavors. So if one or more of
your beers have an off flavor bring it to the meeting and we will try to
identify the off flavor and the root cause for the off flavor. If you
already know what the off flavor is bring it anyway for the rest of the
members to try. This will be a good learning experience for all of us. You
can bring commercial beers that have off flavors too.

MASH Shirts
Scott Graham has some MASH shirts for sale. The sizes and colors are
limited but I am sure you can find something you like. We will be ordering
more in May sometime.

Ok, till next months meeting keep brewing keep drinking and enjoy life or
drink more.

May your Easter basket be filled with ales.
Happy Easter!

Darryl Jon Hickey
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