[COHO] June update

[Mike T]

Well, the Oktoberfest is still bubbling away. It was a great brew on Sunday. 
Thanks to all that helped out. Everything went fairly smooth considering 
that the Big Beaver kicked our asses. If anyone has a fridge that’s set at 
48-58 degrees, and can fit a carboy, please let me know. I have them in 
swamp coolers now and have to keep on adding ice to keep the temps within 
range.
Next Wednesday, June 14th, is our next COHO meeting. There was discussion at 
the last meeting of holding this one outside somewhere. Does anyone know of 
a good location? I’d like to do it somewhere like the back patio at 
McMinniman’s, but doubt that they’d let us drink our beer there. We should 
have some beers ready from the Big Brew. We made the Kolsh and the Poor 
Richard’s Ale.
We will also be collecting entries for the Deschutes homebrew contest. 
Entries are due on Thursday, the 15th, so if you don’t bring them to our 
meeting, you’ll have to drop it off at the brewery. Brett, do have the 
lady’s contact info that’s running it? Entries have to be from an all-grain 
recipe and you have to be an AHA member to enter. That being said, I don’t 
know how they would know if your beer was all-grain or extract. The winner 
gets their beer brewed on the Bond St. system, so make ‘em good!
The main topic of our next meeting will be our summer campout/ beer 
festival, the COHO Hoedown (this is just a working title). Please bring 
ideas and suggestions.
The next COHO brew will be on Saturday, July 1st. Paul, did you still want 
to host this one? Not sure what recipe we’ll do yet. I was thinking of maybe 
a high gravity beer that can age for winter drinking.
Brett, Jim, and I went to Corvallis for the Heart of the Valley 24th Annual 
Homebrew and Microbrew festival. We had a great time and will tell you more 
about it in the upcoming newsletter.
I’ll be in touch on the location of next week’s meeting.
Brew on!
-Mike