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| DB15 Cask Commissioner / club treasurer Brian Lynch (left) and Fritz Maytag, founder of Anchor Brewing, in Mr. Maytag's private barrel aging cellar. Brian is collaborating with Mr. Maytag on a new Anchor brew tentatively called "The Treasurer's Treasure". |
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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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| (L-R) Rando Needham, Dan Hodge, Livingston Hickley |
| Medal winners from our last Home Brew Challenge posing for a picture scheduled to appear on an upcoming special edition box of Wheaties - the breakfast of champions!. Also be sure to listen to their interview on the Hooters weekly podcast the week of 8/5 |
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| August Meeting Notes by Dan Hodge The meeting began with a look at our future schedule: September meeting's theme will be Oktoberfest beers. All members were asked to look for Oktoberfest beers in their travels that are not available in New Jersey. They will be reimbursed from the DB15 treasury. The October meeting will be a homebrew competition with Extra Special Bitter as the style. The usual rules apply. See Dan at U-Brew for necessary ingredients. The November meeting will be a repeat of a meeting done a few years ago when each of the qualifying teams in the MLB post season would be represented by a beer from the city from whence they come. Since we have time to finalize the results, we might try to get brews from the brewery to which the teams were most closely associated, ie: Yankees/Ballantine, Orioles/ National Bohemian or Pirates/Iron City. The December meeting will be the Victorian Dinner. The regular part of the meeting commenced at 4:07 pm and was a presentation of beers by the guest speaker, Kevin Caruso, representative of Radeberger, which now includes a large number of Belgian beers as well as their lineup of outstanding German brews. Mr. Caruso spoke about his company, answered all questions, and then led the club on a tutored tasting of the beers he graciously brought for us. The beers were: 1. Palm Speciale Ale (The former brewer of this beer relocated to Colorado to work at New Belgium and it is thought by some that Fat Tire Ale is a clone of Palm) 2. Estaminet Pils 3.Steen Brugge Tripel 4.Rodenbach Flemish Red Sour Ale 5. Rodenbach Vintage 2011 6.Oude Gueze Boon Special thanks to Mr. Caruso for his great presentation! Beers tried after the meeting were: 1. Doug Vohden's Small English Brown Ale ("Best in Show" at NJ State Fair) 2. Stone Quadro Triticale, provided by Vince Capano 3. Flying Dog Dead Rise Old Bay Summer Ale provided by Tom Nooney 4. Horsehead's Hot Jala Heim provided by Brian Lynch 5.Bell's Amber Ale provided by Tom Nooney 6. Doug Vohden's Double IPA homebrew 7. Dan Hodge's 8/8 Aqua Pale Ale homebrew 8. Dan Hodge's 4/8 IPA homebrew 9. Brandon Einhorn's 2 year old Bourbon Barrel Aged Old Ale homebrew 10. Speakeasy Big Daddy IPA provided by Vince Capano 11.Brandon Einhorn's Chocolate Stout homebrew 12. Dan Hodge's 3/8 Maibock homebrew 13. Dan Hodge's 5/8 hefeweizen homebrew Meeting adjourned after all beer ran out. Meeting resumed downstairs shortly after all beer ran out. ================== A word from Dan Hodge As I write this it's an extremely muggy and uncomfortable day in early August. Therefore, all DB15 members should be elated to know that most liquor stores now have a vast and varied selection of Oktoberfest, "autumn", "harvest" and pumpkin beers available for purchase. These are just the types of brews a discriminating beer connoisseur loves to drink on a day like this. And they won't last so be sure to get some before they're gone. I can't wait for a brisk autumn afternoon to buy some more to drink after raking leaves, but of course by that time the stores' beer shelves will be full of Christmas, winter and "holiday" brews that'll be gone by Christmas to make room for the spring and bock beers that'll be gone by Easter to make room for the summer ales, wit beers and hefeweizens that I could buy today if there weren't so many oktoberfest and pumpkin beers taking up valuable selling space. What's the rush? ------------------- Did you know that Mr. Hodge recently represented our club at a nudist beer festival? Here's the full story- Beers in the Buff ----------------------- July Meeting Notes HERE =========== Did you become of fan of session beers because of our July meeting? Well, here's the tale of one member who didn't -"Hold the Goldfish, Pass the Beer" |
| 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. |
Kevin Caruso
| ============ Special congratulations to club member Doug Vohden for winning the Gold Medal and being named "Best in Show" at the NJ State Fair Homebrew Competition ================ |
| Next Meeting - Oktoberfest Beer Tasting Sunday, September 14 at the Gaslight 4 PM |
| Watch a short promos for the new TV show Beer Snob featuring the Gaslight and a few faces you might know. |