Mashing Maineiacs

The next club meeting will be a brew day on Sunday, May 20th at Andy Souza’s house. Brew day will run from 10:00 AM until 4:00 or 5:00 PM, but if you are not brewing feel free to show up at your convenience. Andy, Chuck, and Garth are planning to brew Oktoberfest biers. There is probably room for one other setup if anyone wants to brew with us.

If you like, bring something to throw on the grill, or chips, pretzels or other snacks.

ALSO, PLEASE NOTE… In appreciation to Nathan and Rising Tide Brewing for helping us out with the club malt order, I would like to suggest that everyone bring a couple bottles of Rising Tide beer. THANK YOU, NATHAN!!

Of course, please feel free to bring some of your own homebrew as well.

Lastly, anyone entering the club homebrew competition can drop-off their entries and entry fee with Chuck on May 20th if convenient.

The internal club competition is slated for June, with judging taking place on 6/23 and winners to be announced at the June meeting on 6/24.  You can find more details on the competition and how to enter your brews at the following link.  Registration is open from now until June 13^th.

https://www.portlandmashingmaineiacs.com/club-sponsored-competitions/

April 29th at 2:00 PM – Meeting at Eric Befeler’s place in Portland.  Look for an upcoming email from the listserv with address.  Thanks to Eric for volunteering to host!

May 20th – Club Brew Day at Andy Souza’s house.

Jun 24th at 2:00 PM – Club competition winner to be announced, meet at Andy’s house.

Brew day is postponed due to weather.  March 25th meeting will be at 2:00 PM at Chuck Warner’s house.

The next homebrew club meeting will be on Sunday, March 25, 2012 – club brew day at Andy Souza’s place starting around 10:00 AM.  If you can’t come by earlier, feel free to stop by at the usual meeting time, 2:00 PM.  More details will be posted on the club brew day page.

Notes from last meeting:

Club-only competition coming up in June.  See competition page for more details.

Reminder – Brew your Oktoberfest bier sometime between now and July to have it ready for the Fall fest.

Club malt order is in the plan for later this Spring.  More to follow soon.

Any other ideas for a club logo?  Any artists or graphic artists out there?

Club-sponsored competition possible for September in conjunction with Portland Beer Festival.  Need to discuss further.

Other items?  Please drop me a note if I missed something that you would like posted.  ~Chuck

The next meeting will be on Sunday Feb 26th at 2:00 PM at Chris Falk’s house.  Look for an email with address and/or directions as the meeting gets closer.

As usual, bring some homebrew or commercial beer to share and a glass, or just come to socialize and talk about beer and brewing.

Notes from previous meeting / Agenda for next meeting:

– Next club brew day is planned for March 25th at Andy Souza’s place, starting around 10:00 AM and continuing well into the afternoon.  Chuck and Andy will be brewing Oktoberfest biers.   Suggest others brew an Oktoberfest as well so that we have a variety to sample / judge in the Fall.  All are welcome to show up at your leisure to help with or observe the brewing.  Let’s discuss details and who will be brewing at next meeting.

– Club-Only Competition planned for April or May.  Andy Souza to register the event with BJCP and possibly host the meeting.  The competition will be official but small to provide our club’s BJCP judges (Andy and Gregg) and other members with some additional judging experience.  All styles are welcome – basically whatever homebrew you have on-hand, in bottles, and would like to enter – is fine.  This is a great opportunity to get some written feedback on your beer.  To enter the competition, please get your entries (1-2 bottles per entry) to Chuck Warner no later than date TBA.   More details to follow.

– Possible club-sponsored competition in conjunction with Portland Brew Festival in September 2012.

– Trip to Valley Malt in Hadley, MA sometime next summer.  Any interest in making an overnight pilgrimage to check out Valley Malt and surrounding breweries or brewpubs?

– Other suggestions welcome for agenda

– How Beer Saved the World

Thanks to all who attended the Jan 8th meeting.  We had a good turnout and some flavorful brews for the first meeting of the year.

Meeting Notes from Jan 8^th:

–          Now the holidays are past, we decided to get back on our normal meeting schedule – the last Sunday of the month.  Next meeting will be Sunday, January 29, 2:00 PM at Novare Res Bier Café in Portland.  http://novareresbiercafe.com/

–          We are planning a club brew day for the end of March.  Location to be confirmed, but likely at Andy Souza’s home in South Portland.  We generally agreed to brew Pilsners or similar styles like American Pils or Helles with possible variations on type of hops, to be discussed further at next couple of meetings.  Tentatively, the following folks will bring brewing rigs:  Andy Souza, Gregg Carine, Garth Russell, and Chuck Warner.

Hope to see you at Novare Res on January 29^th.

The next meeting will be held on January 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM.  Location will be Chuck Warner’s house in South Portland.  I will send an email with directions as we get closer to the date.

Agenda will include planning for annual club brew day in Feb or March.

As always, bring a beer glass and some homebrew or commercial beer to share.  If you want to bring snacks or something to throw on the grill, that’s great too.

The next meeting of the Portland Mashing Maineiacs Homebrew Club will be on Sunday Dec 4th at 2:00 PM at Jimmy the Greeks near the Maine Mall in South Portland.