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The PSB Newsletter Club Meeting at Zorbas on Monday, March 10. Be there at 6PM. Meeting Agenda: From the President: It’s time to wear green, look for lucky four leafed clovers, cross your fingers, and hold your breath. Congratulations and thanks to Joseph for hosting a fun, tasty, and educational brew session. What a crowd of home brewers! This month’s meeting should prove to be interesting. With the infamous Hop Shortage of 08’ swirling around us, we plan to discuss possible substitutes for hops in beer. Have you heard anything or have been gutsy enough to experiment? Come share with the crowd. We will also taste, and select a Porter to represent PSB in the AHA Club only competition. Bring your home brewed Porters. It is time to PARTY! The spring club party, The “WurstOyster”, is scheduled for Saturday, April 12 at the police hut on the river. Bratwurst, beer and oysters, Oh My! Sign up on the forum or at Monday’s meeting. Do you have a keg of home brew to show off? Sign up and bring it along. You’ll be everyone’s hero. COME PARTY! There’s lots of fun stuff going on… See you Monday, March 10th at Zorba’s. Dinner at 6:00, meeting at 7:00, and be sure to bring home brew. Competition Corner: Shamrock is this Saturday the 15th. Maybe some of you lucky brewers will be able to attend and judge. I hear they put on a very good comp. No word yet on the number of PSB entries but I know there was a quite a buzz on the forum about getting everybody’s beers there. A big thanks to Harold for taking the time to get our entries from Bet-Mar to Charlotte for pickup. That was a fine gesture and someone should buy him a beer at Monday’s meeting. The next competition will be the U.S. Open in Charlotte on the 10th of May. Make sure you don’t drink your entire stash before setting aside a few for this important competition. Last month Dr. Leach won the club only competition in the Dark Lager category. Sadly he did not win, place or show. I suspect the bottles were broken or some other misfortune befell them. Hopefully he has received his score sheet by now explaining why exactly they did not choose his beer. If you would like more information about the Club-Only standings please follow this link This month’s AHA club only competition is the Perfect Porter Challenge. We’ll critique them all and send the best to Indianapolis, Indiana where this category 12 competition will be hosted by Ron Smith and the Foam Blowers of Indiana (FBI). The entries are due March 21 so in order to guarantee they will arrive at the competition on time it will be necessary to mail them on the 11th. For that to happen you will need to bring two for the club to try plus two more to send off. Bring out your best (and your worst) for the fun! Next month is the AHA All Extract Extravaganza. Entries can be from any category from 1 to 23 but at least 50% of the fermentables MUST be from extract. My kind of competition! We have a lot of very good extract only brewers so this will be a great meeting to attend even if you don’t have a beer to enter. 2008 has started out with a bang. We’ve had some great speakers covering a variety of topics and they keep coming! This month’s topic will be hop substitutions. Talk about a timely topic! We’ve also had a request to cover appropriate glassware, different types of grain, beer and cheese pairing, etc.. etc…. Further topic suggestions are always encouraged! Let’s all learn from one another. There’s a wealth of information in the club, time to take proper advantage of it! Report from the VP of Social Events: It’s March! Already? Yes! By the time you read this, the Aiken Brewing tour will be behind us. Hope your head is alright! Here’s what’s going down in the area. This month is short on homebrew events but there are a few commercial beer happenings. March 19th Greenville Come on down to Barley's Taproom and Pizzeria in downtown Greenville, South Carolina on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, starting at 7:00 pm for the Flying Dog Garde Dog Release Party with Adam Mundy from Flying Dog. This is the newest seasonal and the first time this style has been released by Flying Dog. There will be giveaways throughout the night, so get there early! March 20th, Asheville Bruisin' Ales hosts this six-course beer dinner featuring the beers of Unibroue and the delectable tapas of Asheville's Zambra. Chef Adam is cooking with the beer in every single course! We can barely contain ourselves. This is one bad*ss menu. March 21st, Asheville John Wetzel will be representing the brewery on Friday, March 21 from 5-7pm where we'll be sampling: Finally, the March brew session will take place March 29th behind Bet-Mar. Check the forum soon for details. Hope to see you all out there!
Secretary/Treasurer's Report: There are 49 paid club members: Membership Update: PSB currently has $4472.90. We still have T-shirts for sale. If you are interested,let me know and I can check to see if we have your size. Local Homebrew Store News Bet-Mar Liquid Hobby Shop MARCH 29, Stop by Bet-Mar for the next brewsession. We're predicting it'll be an ideal day to brew. Mark's making an all-grain Vanilla Cream Ale. Enjoy brats & snacks & share some beer... If you've not yet marked MAY 3, Saturday, on your calendar, do it now! That's Big Brew Day & you're welcome to be one of our brewers out on the patio. We'll discuss details at the meeting Monday night. Have a pint-fully Happy St Pat's day, and remember -- still 10% off for paid-up PSB members. Support your local homebrew store,
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