WHAT'S BREWING?

Well June was a pretty uneventful month, except for the monthly meeting that is. So in case you weren't there I'll bring you up to date. A new sort of pub crawl was scheduled for Saturday August 1st. This pubcrawl will carry the lucky crew down to Pro Player Stadium, to watch your Florida Marlins defeat the unsavory visiting team. Of course there will be beverages on the bus and maybe some snacks also. Ticket price is still to be determined, but should be fairly inexpensive as we are trying to work a deal for the stadium admission. We also set March 13th as the date for the 1999 Hurricane Blow Off. More details on that to come. This years Oktoberfest is set for October 3rd at John Prince Park. As always there will be lots of fun, food, and beer. Some of the events for this years celebration will include, the keg toss with an added round for the children (smaller lighter keg of course), the new and improved Tasters Choice homebrew competition, horse shoes, and more! So don't miss it and don't forget to tell your friends. We also had to discuss some unpleasantries. Lets start with the smoking rules. There will be a designated smoking table(s) by the double doors to provide adequate ventilation for the cigarette smokers. There will be no cigar or pipe smoking during the meeting! After the meeting is complete you may feel free to smoke cigars and pipes. Hopefully this will be a workable compromise. The next issue dealt with newsletter content. Although I personally support free speech and freedom of the press, this newsletter is not a journalistic news source. It is however a publicity device for our club and will portray that with it's content. We offer full apologies to anyone that might have been offended by last months newsletter. To this same subject it has also been resolved that there will be no use of profanity during the meeting. I would like to thank everyone, in advance, for their support and compliance. The next meeting is July 9th, see ya there.

Editor--------Jamie Latimer

Co-Editor---Patti Latimer

5332 Courtney Circle

Boynton Beach, FL 33437

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President----------------Drew Griffin

Vice President---------Gorman Selph

Secretary----------------George King

Treasurer---------------Andy Rodusky

Education----------------Victor Sears

Activities-----------------Betty Turso &

Dan Oliver

Oktoberfest--------------Troy Webster &

Vince Yeck

Hurricane Blow-Off---Mel Thompson &

Tiffany Griffin

Membership-------------Victor Sears

Newsletter----------------Jamie Latimer

PBD Web Page----------Jan Lobota

Membership Information

Applications for membership

are available at Homebrewer’s

Outlet, at 4734 Okeechobee Blvd.,

West Palm Beach.

Or write to Palm Beach Draughtsmen,

Inc. at PO BOX 210174, Royal Palm

Beach, FL 33421-1074

Visit our Web Site at:

For club information contact:

Sunshine Challenge May 15-17 1998

Palm Beach Draughtsmen Results

English Bitter

1^st Palce – Paul Wilson

2^nd Place – David Mathews

German Dark Lager

3^rd Place – Joe Hughes

German Wheat Beer

1^st Place – Joe Hughes

Herb & Spice Beer

2^nd Place – Andy Rodusky

4 Year old Belgian Style Oud Bruin

Ron Raike – Central Florida Home Brewers

1^st Runner Up

Jim Layton – North Texas Home Brewers

2^nd Runner Up

Steve Vallancourt – Central Florida Home Brewers

Sunshine Bowl

1^st Place 66 Points – Central Florida Home Brewers

10 Gold, 9 Silver and Best of Show

2^nd Place 55 Points – North Texas Home Brewers

10 Gold, 8 Silver and 9 Bronze

3^rd Place 11 Points – Palm Beach Draughtsmen

Ingredients for 5 U.S. gal

6.6 lb. Northwestern Gold Malt Extract

1 lb. Pale Malt

.5 lb. Black Malt

2 lb. Roasted Malt

.25 lb. Cara Malt

2 oz Fuggles hop pellets,4% alpha acid (60 min)

1 oz Fuggles hop pellets,4% alpha acid (5 min)

Wyeast Irish yeast

3/4 cup Dextrose (to prime)

Original specific gravity 1.052

Final specific gravity 1.018

Boiling time: 60 min

Primary fermentation: 15 days

Mash grains for 60 min. At 155 degrees F

Ingredients for 11 ½ U.S. gal

15 lb. Muntons Pale Malt

.5 lb. Muntons Chocolate Malt

.5 lb. Muntons Roasted Malt

4 oz Goldings whole hops (90 min)

.5 oz Goldings whole hops (30 min)

.5 oz Goldings whole hops (10 min)

.5 oz Goldings whole hops (2 min)

Wyeast British/Bohemian yeast

Original Specific gravity: 1.058

Final Specific gravity: 1.014

Boiling time: 90 min

Primary fermentation: 14 days at 62 degrees F in glass

Secondary fermentation: 30 days at 39 degrees F in glass

Mash grains for 60 min. At 154 degrees F

Ingredients for 5 U.S. gal

6.6 lb. Northwestern Gold Malt Extract

1 lb. Pale Malt

.5 lb. Black Malt

2 lb. Roast Malt

.25 lb. Cara Malt

2 oz Fuggles hop pellets,4% alpha acid (60 min)

1 oz Fuggles hop pellets,4% alpha acid (5 min)

Raspberry Chocolate Extract

Wyeast Irish yeast

.75 cup Dextrose(to prime)

Original Specific gravity: 1.052

Final Specific gravity: 1.018

Boiling time: 60 min

Primary fermentation: 15 days

If government is going to put health warning labels on beer,

wine and liquor, let's at least have a little truthfulness about

the matter!

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to wake up with

breath that could knock a buzzard off a garbage truck at 100 yards.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing

like a Fool.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that

ex-lovers are really dying for you to telephone them at 4 in

the morning.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the

same boring story over and over again until your friends want to

smash your head in.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay things

like thish.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the boss

what you REALLY THINK while photocopying your butt at the office

Christmas party.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what

ever happened to your underpants (panties) anyway.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in

the morning and see something really scary!

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of

inexplicable rug burn on the forehead.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that

you are tougher, more handsome, and smarter than some really,

On The Lighter side of beer

Anonymous...

Beer Wisdom:

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Frank Zappa

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemmingway

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

His reply

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

Oscar Wilde

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.

Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Dave Barry

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Dave Barry

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

Homer Simpson

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.

David Moulton

People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.

Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan

They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.

Homer Simpson

Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.

Catherine Zandonella

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

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