June 28, 2009 - Big Ole Wrap-Up
Well our first Big Ole Festival has come and gone. We were fortunate enough to meet
quite a few people who were interested in brewing. All of the brews are fermenting away
and fun was had by all, despite the rain yesterday. I'm also happy to report that our
first ever homebrew competition as a club was a success! We had 45 entries total, which
is about the number that we were equipped to handle.
Click here to see the list of winners!
On a side note, UPtoberfest planning is trucking right along. Expect to see the website
completed by the end of the month at
uptoberfest.org. Now that Big Ole is done we can really focus all of our efforts
here and make this a great event!
June 8, 2009 - Stuff from all over
I admit I've been a little lax in keeping this site updated. As most of you know, we
have many pans in the fire!
-Big Ole's Pioneer Days - This is coming up very quickly! Don't forget to join
us at the UP State Fairgrounds June 26/27 for brewing demos. Also if you have any beer
to enter in the competition, please get that ready!
-Bay de Noc Brewers on the radio - Tune in to these stations to hear Josh discuss
the club on-air!
6/12 @ 8:30AM - WDBC 680AM
@ 8:45AM - WYKX 104.7
@ 9:45AM - Radio Results Network (unsure which station exactly)
6/17 @ 10AM - Eagle 107.3
6/18 @ 8AM - Mix 106.3
-Border Worts I - Judging is this Saturday, 6/13 at noon. We're having a meeting
to go along with this event as well, so be there!
-UPtoberfest - Initial planning has begun! If you'd like to help, the next
meeting is 6/16 @ 6PM.
April 27, 2009 - AHA Big Brew Day 5/2
I probably should have posted this sooner, but the Bay de Noc Brewers will again be
celebrating Big Brew Day on 5/2. Hopefully the weather will be better this year! Jeremy
Drury is hosting at his home, 930 South 17th St in Escanaba. We plan on mashing in for
the all-grain batch at 11AM and will start the extract batch around 12:30. We'll also
have food, so bring a dish to pass if you like!
April 13, 2009 - April 25 Meeting Announcement and AHA Big Brew Day
Hi there brewers, we covered a lot of stuff at our last meeting--so much that we went a
little long with the business end of things and never got to do our talk on "getting
started with extract brewing". So if you missed the last meeting and are still wanting
to learn a little about extract brewing, you didn't miss it. We will be going over that
at our next meeting which will be held on Saturday April 25th at Hereford & Hops, 7:00 PM.
We will also be getting everyone signed up for judging at the Big Ole Homebrew
competition.
March 23, 2009 - Impromptu Brew-Day on March 28
Jack Mellinger has invited us to come out to his farm on Saturday to brew an all-grain
Maple Nut Brown Ale. Maple sap will be used instead of water, which lends about 4% sugar
content. Brewing will begin at noon.
Directions: From Rock, go West on Maple Ridge Road 5.5 miles to Homestead Road. Turn left
and follow until the road ends at a farm house. 13340 Homestead Road. A map with directions
from Escanaba located
here. If anyone is interested in carpooling, throw a post up on the forum!
March 13, 2009 - March 21 Meeting Announcement
Bay de Noc Brewers meeting. March 21. 7 PM. Hereford and Hops. Be there or be...
less educated about brewing than otherwise? We have updates on the Big Ole Festival,
UPtoberfest, National Mead Day, and more. I've also heard a rumor that there will be
beer as well.
February 4, 2009 - February 21 Meeting Announcement
Our next meeting will be February 21, same bat-time, same bat-channel (H&H basement,
7:00 PM). We flipped back to a weekend this time but will definitely have more weekday
meetings after a strong turnout in January. Hope to see you there!
January 18, 2009 - A little housekeeping
Well the BdNB's are entering our second year and I think that last year exceeded the
expectations of literally everyone. Our meetings were much larger than ever anticipated
and we were able to survive solely on the dontations of members. We now actually have
elected officers (see the Contact Us page) and are working diligently to make the club a
little more structured so that it is more enjoyable for all. With structure comes
structured dues so we can have a solid budget to work with for the year. Click on the
Join Us link on the left for more info on that if you didn't pay dues at the January
meeting. Lastly I implore everyone to join the forum and contribute! This site is
getting almost 500 visits/month yet the forum has comparatively little activity. Don't be
shy, get on there and start posting about your brewing experiences/questions!
January 4, 2009 - January 13 Meeting Announcement
This has been out there for awhile but I've been slacking in posting due to the craziness of the holidays. It's
a new year and we're going to try something a little different for our first meeting - a weekday! We'll be
meeting on Tuesday, January 13 at 6:30 PM at the usual locale (H&H's basement). Hope to see you there!
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