[THC] Black Sparrow meeting ready to go -- AGENDA (roughly)

[Linda Swihart]

We have a good group, about 18, planning to attend tonight.  Please 
arrive at 6 if you can so we can start (a few people have to arrive a 
bit later).  Here is the idea and the plan.

We hope for this to be the first of what will become a fairly regular 
"business and beer education" type of meeting.  We are very thankful to 
Paul for letting us have it at the Black Sparrow this time and we 
promise to behave ourselves and still not be too boring.

We who have it will bring a little homebrew and *will not* start opening 
it up right away and passing bottles around.  All beer will go into 
labeled pitchers and we can have five or six of them going at a time; I 
gotta see how many pitchers we have.  Paul said they have some too at 
the BS. 

AGENDA, roughly

Ongoing -- The "Pitcher People," Nancy, Lloyd, and/or Victor will, in 
some more or less organized fashion, pour your beer into a pitcher, or 
give you the pitcher to pour it into, and make sure that you have a 
label and indelible marker. 

At 6:15 or 6:30 we will begin a short presentation and tasting of 
Morland's "Old Speckled Hen," which is regarded as a classic commercial 
example of the style called "8C" also known as "English Pale Ale" also 
called "ESB." by the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP).  My 
intention is that the cost of the samples of Old Speckled Hen will be 
borne by the club, although I haven't cleared it with the other board 
members yet.  There will be handouts of the BJCP style guidelines for 
attendees.

At 7-ish might be the right time to have a break and if people want to 
order food then this might be the time.

If it is necessary to order food or drink during a presentation, please 
do this in a way that is quiet and doesn't interfere with others' 
ability to hear the speaker or the discussion that might accompany the talk.

At 7:15 or 7:30 I'm hoping that Nancy and/or Lloyd.will tell about our 
experiences at the Cincinnati National Homebrewers' Conference and the 
THC table at "Club Night."

Probably around 8:00 we will have a short round of "NAME THIS BEER."  An 
un-identified (but fairly well known and commercially available) beer 
will be poured around, and adventurous and/or knowledgeable folks will 
answer:
1 -- is it an ale or a lager?
2 -- what is the general category? (porter?  bock?  wheat beer?....)
3 -- what is the specific category? (Southern English Brown?  Russian 
Imperial Stout?....)
4 -- what is this beer exactly?  (Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter?  
Negra Modelo?  Kalamazoo Stout?)

And THEN..... we'll have some mead tasting.

At least I hope it all works out a bit like this.

See you soon.

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