[COHO] June update

[nastinad@bendbroadband.com]

sorry mike.....read yer email and went by yer house on Sat..like an
idiot....nobody there at 10:30 a.m.  :)    Sunday was on call and
worked most of the day......

---- Original Message ----
From: miketaliercio at hotmail.com
To: coho at lists.bendtel.net
Subject: RE: [COHO] June update
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:44:23 -0700

>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
>
>