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May Meeting

Meetings & Events, Monthly Meetings

As you may know our May meeting is a week earlier than normal to correspond with American Craft Beer Week and initiate the week’s events at Elevator Brewery.  Their week’s events are listed here.

Date/Time

Monday, May 13 2013
7pm

Location

Elevator Brewery (not restaurant)
165 N 4th Street
Downtown Columbus, OH


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Agenda

We have a special guest this month, Don Croucher has arrange for Dan Ramos, the Ohio state legislator who is sponsoring the proposed law to increase the ABV limit for beer in Ohio to 21% to come and speak to us at Elevator. He will speak about the law, the challenges, and the opportunities it presents. It should be a very interesting opportunity for us, and a chance for SODZ to develop a relationship with an interested party in the legislature.  We ask that questions be well reasoned, sensible, and on topic (let’s not get to “political”).  Thanks Don!

Our second talk will be by our very own homebrewer-gone-pro/membership director Mike Byrne.  He will be talking to us about setting up, balancing, and maintaining draft lines.

If you can go early I would encourage you to go to the restaurant at 161 N. High Street for dinner to show our gratitude.

See you there!

Sláinte!

-Will

April Meeting

Meetings & Events

I am pleased to announce that our April meeting will be the 15th at Barley’s Smokehouse (mmmm brisket)!

The meeting will start at 7 as usual but you are encouraged to come early and grab some food as usual, the room should be available to us starting around 6 pm.

Location

Barleys Smokehouse
1130 Dublin Rd
Columbus, OH 43215

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Agenda

  • Competition Day: Bill Bopp
  • Coffee/+Beer: Me

I will also have score sheets from BBF and awards for those who haven’t claimed them.

Sláinte!

March meeting

Meetings & Events

Our March meeting will be on March 18th at the Old Bag of Nails in Westerville, 24 North State Street Westerville, OH 43081. The meeting will start at 7 pm, but people will show up around 6 to get a beer and something to eat. We will be in the upstairs meeting room. See you there!

Learn To Homebrew Day

Meetings & Events

Learn to Homebrew day is Saturday, November 3rd at Buckeye Lake Brewery from 8am to 2pm.

Bring all of your brewing equipment.  Only water will be provided.  Bring hoses!  If you have a splitter, that will be helpful.

Brewing will be in the parking lot outside, so be prepared in case of rain.

There is a bakery next door, so everyone will have easy access to breakfast (pastries and coffee).

Please RSVP using the form below.

If you are free later in the afternoon, we will head over to Zanesville afterwards to start getting our competition entries ready.

 

October meeting

Meetings & Events

The October SODZ meeting will be held at Weasel Boy Brewing in Zanesville. Meeting will start at noon.

This is our Oktoberfest party. The club is cooking brats. Everyone is asked to bring a side dish or dessert. The food should be a ready a little before that.

Please RSVP to the vice.president address at sodz.org.

September Meeting

Meetings & Events

Our September meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 17th at Actual Brewing Company at 7:00pm. The address is 655 N. James Road, Columbus, OH 43219-1837. Look forward to seeing everyone.

The Club Only competiiton style this month is Light Hybrid so if you have a beer that fits into BJCP category 6 and would like to enter, bring a sample.

April Meeting

Meetings & Events

The April meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 23rd at 7:00PM:
Barley’s Smokehouse & Brewpub
1130 Dublin Road
Columbus, OH 43215

The room will be available by 6:00 so show up early and grab something to eat.

We will be judging Scottish and Irish Ales for the Club Only competition. If you would like to enter, please bring a sample to the meeting.

As always, please be discreet.

November Meeting

Meetings & Events, Monthly Meetings

Due to a conflict at Gordon Biersch, we have re-scheduled our meeting to Wednesday, Nov. 16th.  Sorry for any inconvienence.

While the official meeting starts at 7:00pm, we have the back room reserved from 6:00pm on so anyone who likes can show up early and have some dinner or appetizers.  This is the best way we can show thanks to Gordon Biersch for offering us a free meeting location.  This location is more open than some of our other places, so while we can bring homebrew to this meeting, we need to be extra low key about it.

Finally, at this meeting we will be judging Weizens for our entry into the Club Only competition.  If you have a beer that fits into BJCP category 15 (http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style15.php), bring a sample to the meeting.  If your beer is judged the best, it will be selected to forward to the American Homebrewers Association’s Club Only Competition.  As a reminder, you must be an AHA member to enter.