UPCOMING EVENTS....MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Mark your calendars for the upcoming months, cuz here's some important dates to remember.......

LEADING OFF:
THURSDAY, MAY 11th: "MAY DAY, MAY DAY.....SOMEBODY'S GOING DOWN". The MAY MEETING will be held at Dogfish Head in Rehoboth on Thursday, May 11th. This will be our last meeting at the pub until October, so get off your ass and get there! 7pm is when the meeting officially starts, but those who love DFH beer know that the pre-meeting starts when the doors open at 4pm.

BATTING 2nd:
SATURDAY, MAY 13th: "LET'S GO WINGS!" The 3rd Annual DUH Wing-Off.......As always, held at The Shipwreck Brewing Company Lounge and Drunk-a-torium. Bring your best version of chicken wings and/or beer, or just come out and join the fun and stuff your face! The beer starts flowing at 4pm, with "judging" starting somewhere around 6pm. Again, get off your ass and come out and have some fun with your fellow homebrewers and local idiots!. If you don't know where The Shipwreck Brewing Company is, call John Novosel at 302-947-2999 and he'll be glad to give you directions...or you can just post a note here....and I'll mock you!

BATTING 3rd:
THURSDAY, JUNE 8th: "GRATEFUL TO BE ANYWHERE". The June meeting will be held right here, in my back yard in scenic Ellendale. Past attendees will tell you, we get to watch some awesome thunderstorms roll through in between games of bocce and horseshoes. AND (as always) the Grateful Dead Groove Lounge will be rockin', as will Dead Terry's shed of tunes......it's fun.

HITTING CLEAN-UP:
SATURDAY, JUNE 17th: "A GOOD TIME GONE BAD 3", or whatever I decide to call it this year. It's Jess & Terry's pig roast/crab feast/beer bash/fun-o-rama. Look for a follow-up email on this......or look in your mailbox.

NEXT HITTER:
THURSDAY, JULY 13th: "DUH DOES MILLSBORO". Yes, the July meeting will be held at Delmarva Brewing Craft (aka Patti & Doug Griffith's) in Millsboro. Details will follow via email, but bring your swim gear if you want to hit the water.

READY TO ADVANCE THE RUNNER:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10th: "DUH GETS WRECK'd". The August meeting will be held at John & Linda Novosel's Shipwreck Brewing Company in Lewes. Details will follow via email, just wanted to let everyone know....I'm starting to sound like a broken record.

AND THE ROOKIE ROUNDS OUT THE INNING:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th: "DOVER REPRESENTS!" Mike Townshend is hoping to host the September meeting.....if things go well...if not, we'll have the meeting/party on his general contractor's front lawn.........look for more info coming.


LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION COMING ON ALL OF THESE DATES.


As always, post a comment........

Peace - Out!

APRIL 13TH MEETING AT DOGFISH HEAD

OH YEAH! It's time for the April club meeting. Sorry to those of you who will be observing Passover, or those who aren't allowed out on evenings when there's a full moon (and you hairy bastages know who you are), but the April meeting is Thursday, April 13th. We'll meet at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats (upstairs) in Rehoboth sometime around 7pm. Bring your latest creations or samples from your latest trip (DUDE!), and we'll pass them around for everyone to try. Unleaven bread welcome, just leave the lambs blood at home (Ok Moses?), and please....no Silver Bullets (of either kind).
On the agenda for discussion will be, first and foremost, the summer schedule for meetings. If you want to host a meeting during the months of June, July, August or September (remember, it's the 2nd Thursday of the month), then bring it.......YO! ALSO, we'll try to finalize a couple of dates for some club events (i.e. Wing-Fest '06, Club Competition '06, Idiot-Fest 2010). We're still looking for club dues also.......
FINALLY, mark your calendars (your 2006 calendars, duh!) for "A Good Time Gone Bad 2006" (formerly known as "The Stone-Cutters Annual No-Homers Picnic"). YES, it's the return of the Crabby Pig-fest held at my undisclosed location in Ellendale, Delaware. The date is June 17th....details to follow......

Hope to see everyone at the meeting........

Peace - Out!
Dead Terry

P.S. LET'S GO RED WINGS!

NEXT MEETING....MARCH 9TH @ DFH...DUH!

The March meeting will be at Dogfish Head in Rehoboth Beach on Thursday, March 9th starting around 7pm.. Bring beer/whatever if you have some to share. Sorry, no fancy quibbles or smart-ass remarks to go along with the monthly announcement. Just show up....and............

DT

DUH in Mid-Atlantic Brewing News

If you can still find a copy, check out the February/March issue of Mid-Atlantic Brewing News (which you should be reading anyway, there will be a test at the next meeting). Delmarva United Homebrewers gets some 'PUB' thanks to George Hummel and his Homebrew News column. A slight error in the snippet about SANDALS, but I have 'corrected' him (ala "The Shining"). I just happened to be reading the latest issue on my flight to Boston (the fest was amazing, as was everything else in Beantown), and there we were.....hopefully just the beginning of the juggernaut that shall become DUH! Do I see in the future "Homebrew Club of the Year"? Probably more likely a featured story on "America's Most Wanted".
SO..........how was the February meeting? Post your comments, or I'll have to 'correct' all of you too!

Tra-la-la-la-la,
Dead Terry

P.S. Best Beer @ Extreme Beer Fest 3? Adam Avery's Mephistopheles' Stout! I must have more of this beer......

February Club Meeting.....Thursday, Feb. 9th

The February meeting of the Delmarva United Homebrewers (DUH) will be held on Thursday, February 9th at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach. As usual, the meeting will be held upstairs starting around 7pm. Anyone and everyone is welcome to attend, and if you are interested in joining the club, and getting in on our club-only activities, the membership fee is only $20 per household annually.
As always, you do not need to bring your latest batch to attend but if you want to get feedback on your latest creation from fellow homebrewers, by all means bring it to the meeting. We are a homebrew/wine-maker/meadist/???/beer enthusiast organization, which means come and have some fun and if you have a good time and want to join DUH......all it takes is $20.
One note about the February meeting....Jessica and I will not be attending the meeting due to the fact that we will be in Boston for the Extreme Beer Festival (www.BeerAdvocate.com). If anyone wants to pay their dues at the February meeting, please give them to Mike Townshend, Mark Corea or John Mereider. They will forward the names (and dues) on to me so the member list can be made current. Jess and I will drink a toast (or two....or 3) to all of you on Thursday evening.
REMEMBER.....Thursday is $5 pizza night at Dogfish Head, so come in for dinner and have a great time getting to know (and make fun of) your fellow area homebrewers. Have a great time and I'll see everyone at the March meeting.....or at the Dogfish Head Chocolate Dinner, which is February 19th.
Any questions, simply send me an email or post a response here......

Peace-Out!
Dead Terry

P.S. LET'S GO RED WINGS!

Beer Maps!

For me there is nothing better...

Some of y'all may have seen this one already. It combines things near and dear to my heart, my work in internet mapping applications and my hobby in beer and brewing.
Check it out! Maybe we can get a google maps mashup together for homebrew supply shops.

Here is the link:
http://beermapping.com/us-brewery-map/

Sure, the folks who published this daily calendar could have picked some beer with an unfortunate name. But NO, they’re into the Olde School thang!

JANUARY MEETING

The first OFFICIAL meeting of the Delmarva United Homebrewers (DUH) will be held on Thursday, January 12th. We'll meet upstairs at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach, starting around 7pm. Please remember, we'll be collecting annual dues at this meeting so bring some extra cash or your checkbook. Dues remain the same as previous years...$20 per household.
Thursday is $5 pizza night at Dogfish Head as well, so come on out for dinner, have some beer and enjoy the evening with your fellow homebrewers and beer-heads. Any questions? Just post a comment....otherwise we hope to see you on Thursday!

Peace-Out!
Dead Terry

P.S. Don't forget about the Chili Cook-off on Saturday, January 21st at the Shipwreck Brewing Company Brewhaus.

a star among us

My wife brought home a copy of last week’s Cape Gazette from the office.  Our own Doug Griffith and the Delmarva Brewing Craft were featured in an article in the Business and Real Estate section.

 

Nice story Doug!

3rd Annual Chili Cook-off set for Saturday, January 21, 2006

John and Linda Novosel will be hosting our 3rd annual chili cook-off on Saturday, January 21, 2006. The event will be held at the Shipwreck Brewing Company Brewhaus in Lewes, starting at 5pm.
Bring your best chili to be judged by all present in a blind tasting. Bring your chili in a crock pot (if possible), though there is now a 4-burner cooktop in the Brewhaus if you don't have one available. There will be plenty of Shipwreck beer and wine on hand, but feel free to bring along your latest creation or whatever goes good with chili...in your opinion.
As always, I'll be sending out an email about the event to everyone on the club list, as well as the folks who signed up/showed up at the event at Fordham Brewery. That message will detail directions to the Shipwreck Brewing Company, as well as the telephone number there. If you have any questions or would like to let us know you are coming, simply post a comment to this message. Happy Holidays Everyone.

Peace-Out!
Dead Terry

Fordham Meeting.

I don’t know about everyone else but I had a blast last evening at Fordham. Mike and Walter were very gracious hosts and it was great to meet other Delaware brewers. Highlights for me were the Belgian Triple (Corny Keg in the middle) the vanilla porter, both from our friends up north, as well as John Novosel’s Pumpkin. Also a highlight was the return of Degroen’s Dopplebock. I told many of you last evening that I had an annual tradition of heading down to Baltimore Brewing Company right around the holidays to pick up a growler to two. Without it Christmas would not be the same.

I’ll be writing up a big old fat thank you letter for the folks at Fordham and I’ll be sure to post the text here.

Here are a few photos from the meeting.

Introductions
More Introductions
The sign says it all
The Tour
First State Brewers
Billy Dee

Cheers!

--Mike

Logo

Here is what I came up with for a new logo.
Let me know what you all think.

DUH.... That name was already taken.

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