Presidents Message for April

I know that the April Presidents message is later then usual but after our March meeting my family and I went on vacation. I am back now and writing.

At our March meeting we had eleven members present and one returning member, that member is Bob Fischer. Welcome back Bob.

The topic that took up must of the time was the up and coming Big Brew it will be held on May 5, 2007 at 09:00am at the Hickey Family Brewing and Meadery. We had decided to brew Griffin Spit IPA all grain and extract, Striking Gold Belgian Strong Ale all grain and Hailbrau Dopplebock all grain. We will need brewing equipment to accomplish this and Russell, Bob and Scott have volunteered to bring theirs. Anybody else that would like to bring their equipment can do so.

OK HERE IS THE BIG ONE. Bring beer to drink. Last year we had a very bad showing of beers to taste. All who attend bring beer. I was the only one with a keg last year, come on you all have beer bring it.

Everybody is asked to bring a cover dish so we can have a great lunch. In this department we do really well so remember bring food and BEER. If everybody would call or e-mail me and tell me what you are bringing I will make sure we have the basics covered.

NEXT remember the spirit of the Big Brew, to gather brewers and non-brewers for a brew session, food and fun. If you know anybody interested in brewing bring them.

March’s BOTY style was Porter category 12. We had two entries and second place went to Bob Fischer his brown porter. First place went to me for my Porter’s brown porter. Next months style is a fun one, any style of Extract beer. Remember an extract brewed beer is not all gain beer with some extract in it. The base malt is extract and it may have specialty malts added.

Let’s make April a good month and have ALL MASH members attend the meeting at the ship.

Let’s go have a homebrew, Darryl Hickey