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| DB15 Cask Commissioner / club treasurer Brian Lynch (left) and Fritz Maytag, founder of Anchor Brewing, enjoying Eisenbahn beer at the brewery in Brazil as they attend the World Cup as special "Beer Ambassadors" sponsored by the Cricket Hill Foundation. |
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| Sign up a new member, win a beer! The DB15 is the largest beer appreciation organization in New Jersey, but what about the East Coast? Well it's time to make our move. Bring a new member to the next meeting, have them officially register, and get a Gaslight beer compliments of the DB15 Cask Commissioners. -------------- |
Why sign up for the club dues full payment plan? Enjoy the many benefits available to club members on the full-payment plan. A one time fee of only $50 covers all meetings, plus discounts for DB15 special events. This year members received benefits that totaled well over the dues amount. Substantial discounts were provided for the TAP NY beer fest trip, the Newark Bears baseball outing, the NJ Brewers Festival, and the Victorian Dinner. In addition members on the full pay plan are exempt from the individual meeting beer fee. Ask club treasurer Brian Lynch, or any Cask Commissioner for the full details at the next meeting. |
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| Don't Be A Loser - Bad Bar Behavior 20 Rules to Follow ----------------- Read the story of the DB 15 Membership Card Here Check out the story of the Gaslight Jukebox Here ----------------- |
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| (L-R) Rando Needham, Dan Hodge, Livingston Hickley |
| Medal winners from our last Home Brew Challenge appearing at Hooters in Wayne to promote their new business- jewelry shaped like their brewing medals. Potential investors can speak with them at our next meeting. |
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| July 12 Meeting 4 PM at the Gaslight Did you know that April 7th was "Session Beer Day"? Not many do despite the fact that the date commemorates "Little Repeal Day", when the Cullen-Harrison Act was passed. In reality that act simply permitted the resumption of the manufacture and sale of 3.2% (by weight) beer and light wines in those states that were then legally considered wet. It was not an amendment to the Constitution, merely a revision of the Volstead Act which defined any beverage with an alcoholic content of .5 % or less by volume as "intoxicating": The total repeal of national Prohibition occurred with the ratification of the 21st. Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933. Under the amendment states could have their own individual versions of Prohibition. Mississippi kept theirs for another three decades. Even today, over 1/3 of Mississippi’s counties are "dry" while only 17states forbid any of their counties to ban alcohol. Although the U.S. Constitution provides two methods for ratifying constitutional amendments, only one had been used up until 1933. That process required the ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures. However, many supporters of the 21st Amendment feared that state lawmakers were either beholden to, or simply fearful of, the temperance lobby. So when Congress formally proposed the repeal of Prohibition on February 20, 1933 (with the requisite two-thirds having voting in favor in each house; 63 to 21 in the United States Senate and 289 to 121 in the United States House of Representatives), they chose the other ratification method established by Article V, that being via state conventions. With it's passage, the 21st Amendment became (and remains) the only one ratified by state conventions rather than by the state legislatures. In honor of the April 7th Session Beer Day and the return of beer to the USA, the Draft Board 15 will have a belated holiday celebration at our upcoming meeting, this Sunday, July 12 at 4 PM. While there seem to be many different definitions of what exactly a session beer is, most agree it's one with lower alcohol and more flaovor than mass-produced light lagers. There are vociferous British beer fans who insist that anything over 4% ABV doesn't qualify while most Americans put the top limit at 5.0%. That's the one we'll be using at the meeting albeit with a slight tweak - our beers will all be 4.9% ABV or less. Although low-alcohol beer - sometimes know as "small beer" - has existed for centuries, the term "session" is fairly modern. Some people point to early-20th-century British laws restricting pub hours to lunchtime and evening "sessions" as the origin. Whatever the case, Europe has a long-established tradition of low-ABV beers, typified by Czech pilsners, German kölsch, and British beers of all kinds. The continent also has more relaxed drinking customs than the United States, with multiple daytime pints a not-uncommon occurrence. Don't miss this first ever DB15 session beer meeting - Sunday, July 13, at the Gaslight, 4 PM (Complete list of beers - selected by Dan Hodge- TBA) (Rumor has it that member Tom Nooney is bringing a few special beers from upstate NY for sampling.) ================== Prohibition Trivia The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, the legal measure that included the instructions for enforcing Prohibition, never barred the consumption of alcohol– just making it, selling it, and shipping it. Two states rejected the 21st amendment -North Carolina and South Carolina. Another eight states didn’t even act to vote on it: Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota The Budweiser Clydesdales eight-horse hitch-and-wagon took the first case of post-Prohibition beer along Pennsylvania Avenue to President Roosevelt in the White House. Yeungling Brewery, America’s oldest, also delivered a truckload of their "Winner Beer" beer to FDR. ----------------------- June Meeting Notes HERE =========== |
| Keep you eye out for DJ and Dan Soboti plus "three colorful gents" who all appear in the pilot episode of the forthcoming TV series "Beer Geeks." Filming atGaslight was recently completed Viewing info TBA. |
| Did you make it to the picture booth at TAP-NY? Click HERE to see eight from our trip who did. |
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| Remember - All meetings are generally held on the second Sunday of the month, 4 PM, at the Gaslight. |