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Forest
City Brewers
Barley News
OKTOBERFEST
This year's Forest City Brewer's Oktoberfest celebration will be at the home of Lynn and Barb Foster,
3855 Hermitage,
Rockford. Click here for map.
Take East Riverside Blvd. to Applewood (across from Merlin Muffler), turn South.
Go to stop sign, take first right after the stop sigh (Foxboro).
Take the next right (Fox Point)
Take the second left (Kildare)
Take a right a the dead end at a stop sign (Hermitage)
The Foster's are the last house on the right.
The festing will begin at noon with a genuine Door County Fish Boil at 2:00 pm.
Tours of the Foster Family brewery will be available on the half-hour. Purchase your tickets at the front gate. (member discount available)
All kidding aside, this WILL be a grand time. |
NOTE FROM PRESIDENT (PRO TEM)
Thanks to everyone who helped with the Burpee program! Of course Ken Schulz deserves special praise. He did a great job of organizing the event and making a terrific summary presentation. The program drew 20 interested potential brewers. Through the generosity of Ken, Lynn Foster, Alan Novak, Steve Robinson & Anita,
David Burdick, and Pat Cunningham we had enough beer and braggot to satisfy everyone's thirst. (If I forgot to thank anyone who donated beer, please forgive me.)
Our next meeting is this Wed (17 Oct 2001). Please bring your Oktoberfest for the Style Competition and whatever for the open. Also, please be thinking about the people that you want to lead FCB for the next year. We will be asking you to nominate a slate of candidates.
Our next event will be the annual FCB Oktoberfest (Saturday - 20 Oct 2001). It promises to be another memorable event. Lynn & Barb Foster have offered to hold this year's party at their home (3855 Hermitage Trail). In addition to our normal 'dish-to-pass', Lynn will provide an old fashioned "Fish boil." This event will begin at noon and run till 6pm. Please set your Palm Pilots or other organizers to insure that you and your family will be able to join us. And, set aside some of your homebrew or special favorite to share with your thirsty friends to help wash down great quantities of food.
See you on Wednesday.
Roger Hosfeld, President pro tem |
COMPETITION RESULTS
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Winners
for October
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Style-Oktoberfest
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David Burdick |
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Open
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1st
Andy
Friedl Raspberry
Amber
1st
Mike Teefey Pale
Ale
2nd
Steve
& Anita Braggot
3rd
Ken Schultz Jalapeno
Ale |
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SECRETARY'S NOTES FROM LAST MEETING
I've decided to try a new category in the newsletter this year. I'm actually going to try to take notes on the important information conveyed at each meeting and share it with those who were not fortunate enough to attend. Hopefully, people will communicate the critical information early in the meeting, when my note-taking skills are less suspect.
At the September meeting, we discussed changing the location of our Wednesday meeting from LT's to Old Chicago. Josh, a manager at OC, came to give us a convincing presentation on switching over. We'll plan to discuss this at the meeting Wednesday.
Mike and Mary Kay Teefey gave a short talk on their plans to open a homebrew store here in Rockford. They also joined the club-welcome! They were looking for input from us-what we wanted to see carried (Liquid yeast! Bulk honey!) They plan to be open regular business hours (they are guessing 10-7) and maybe offering "brewing classes" through Rock Valley. They are looking to open up in the spring of 2002. Sounds great to me!
We have a new website! You can get there by going to (well
your already here!). We can post newsletters and messages at the site, etc. Thanks to Andy for all his hard work!
We are considering a pub crawl to Western Illinois and Iowa this fall. Ken Lonergan plans to work out some ideas and talk about them at the meeting this week.
Topics for this weeks meeting include Oktoberfest, next months meeting (it happens to fall the Wednesday before Thanksgiving-do we want to move it up or back by a week?), new officers, etc. Come prepared with ideas, if you can!
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TREASURER'S REPORT
OK-so I'm not really all that good about timely deposits and all that sort of thing. I'm going to try to keep this posted in the newsletter every month so I keep up with it. We'll see how it goes.
Beginning checkbook balance as of 9/6/01--$638.66
Judging $18.00
New Memberships $25.00
Ending checkbook balance as of 10/01/01 $681.66
And that's all there is to it! |
STYLES
FOR 2001-2002
2001
Nov. Pale Ale
Dec. Open
2002
Jan. Porter
Feb. Bock
Mar. Irish Amber
Apr. Belgian Ale
May Maibock
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