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Our next LP meeting will be at Pateros Creek Brewery on Thursday, May 2nd @
7:00 PM. <br>
We will have a beer social for the first ~ 15 min. You can bring any homebrews
you would like to share with the group.<br>
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1) We will be doing a tasting panel. If you have any beers (or meads and
ciders) that you want specific feedback on please bring them. This is an
opportunity to get very direct comments on beer attributes and style for your
good or bad beers. Also, if you have beer that you know has a specific
"problem" - bring it! This is a great educational opportunity to
train other people on beer attributes and taints.<br>
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2) Maibock / Helles Bock (5A) is the May style of the month. If you have a one,
please bring it for the table. We will also have some commercial examples for
this style. These discussions will be led by BJCP judges and are a great
opportunity to really dissect the diversity and qualification for certain beer
styles.<br>
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Also, the style of the month for the remainder of the year is listed below:<br>
<br>
June - Saison (16C)<br>
July - Bohemian Pilsner (2B)<br>
August - Belgian Tripel (18C)<br>
September - Oktoberfest (3B)<br>
October - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable (21A)<br>
November - Imperial IPA (14C)<br>
December - Russian Imperial Stout (13F)</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">3) We will be doing the Iron Brewer
Challenge at the May meeting. The
challenge is a beer that uses bacon. The goal is to brew any style, but you
have to use bacon, and the bacon flavor should be balanced well with the
selected style. If any vegetarians/vegans want to use a bacon flavored
meat substitute such as Bacos, that would be okay too. </span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4)
We will be judging for the next club-only competition at the May meeting.
The competition this time is for extract beers, where 50% or more of the
fermentable sugars must come from the use of malt extract. I know a lot
of you already have some great extract beers brewed, so bring them to the next
meeting if you think you have one good enough to represent the club. For
those of you who don’t know, the club-only competition is where we compete
against other AHA sanctioned clubs. We will select one beer to represent
our club, and the club will pay the fees and shipping costs. You can find more
info about it here: </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/competitions/club-only-competitions" target="_blank">http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/competitions/club-only-competitions</a></span></span></p>
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<b>Upcoming Local Competition News</b></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">5/11/13 - 19th Annual - 8 Seconds of
Froth in Cheyenne, WY ($7 and 2 bottles per entry) - DUE: 4/27/13.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Registration is open now. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.highplainsdrafters.com/8-seconds-of-froth" target="_blank">http://www.highplainsdrafters.com/8-seconds-of-froth</a> </span> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hops & Berries (Old Town
location) is a drop off!</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6/2/13 - Liquid Poetry Slam in Fort
Collins, CO ($7 and 2 bottles per entry) - DUE: 5/24/13. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Registration opens 5/3/13. Several ProAms from this comp!</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://slam.liquidpoets.com/" target="_blank">http://slam.liquidpoets.com/</a> </span> (The website will updated with this year’s
info soon)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Big Brew</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Big Brew Day is coming up soon so be
sure to save the date of Saturday, May 4th. This is one of the most fun events
of the year and you definitely don’t want to miss it! Big Brew is a celebration
of National Homebrew Day. Each year homebrewers around the world invite family
and friends to their brewing site on the first Saturday in May to celebrate the
holiday. Everyone is encouraged to brew, enjoy the fun and join in on a
world-wide toast at noon CDT. Big Brew will be at my house again this year. The
address is 712 Cambridge Dr, Fort Collins 80525. Things will get started at 9
AM. Hops and Berries have been kind enough to sponsor the event again. They
will be providing meat for the grill, and everyone is encouraged to bring a
side dish. There will also be plenty of homebrew on tap to drink. Hope to see
you there!</span><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">New
Website Coming Soon!</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The new Liquid Poets website is
almost complete. We will be going live
with the new site by next week. It’s a
huge improvement over the old site and we are very excited about it! </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cheers,</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Matt Smith</span></p>
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