Notes from the October meeting

Hey DUFF Club

Not everyone was able to attend the meeting or is on the DUFF Google Groups or DUFF Blog, so I thought I'd send out a follow-up email to Tuesday's meeting. I appologize to those that are and are recieving this for the third time... sorry! But here's a wrap-up of what we decided at the October DUFF Club meeting.....

October 2009 Meeting notes

The October 2009 meeting was held at the Mauston Country Inn on the
13th. Randy, Jim, Clinton and his two little ones and I were there.
Randy had some neat devices to show us that he had made - an
adjustable sparge and volume meter. I wasn't thinking and didn't get
pictures but I will. Sorry! Clinton had some pictures of the new
brewing stand he's making... awesome!!!

We talked some of recent club activities, the show in Racine Wisconsin
and the outdoor brew at The Barn in Baraboo. We also kind of planned
out the next few months meetings so folks will know in advance what
we're up to.

November 2009 - We'll be meeting at the Country in Mauston, 6:00pm on
November 10th. If you've brewed some extra wine over the summer and
want to share, we know of a worthy guy to share it with! Contact
Clinton or bring to the November meeting and we'll explain it there in
person.

December 2009 - We'll once again be meeting at the Country Inn, in
Mauston on December 8th at 6:00pm for a regular meeting. Nothing
special planned at this time but that's subject to change. Maybe it'll
be a good time to make some tentative meeting, brewing, and event
plans/goals for 2010 and access where we're at and where we're going?

January 2010 - New meeting nights on Friday! Meetings will be the
first Friday of the month in 2010 unless it's a holiday such as
January 1st (New Year's Day) and April 2nd (Good Friday) then we'll
move it to the second Friday of the month. We're going to give this a
try and see if more people can make the meetings.

January 8th, 2010 will be our first Friday night meeting and we'll
tentatively plan on an outing at the Barn Bar & Restaurant in Baraboo,
Wisconsin (Friday night fish fry!!!) for our winter holiday DUFF Club
Outing. They have about 130 differant beers there to try so line up a
designated driver!

2010 promises to be an important year for the DUFF homebrew club. With
the threat of a rising tax on beer, the economy in the dumps, and some
DUFF members sneaking off to the liquor store to buy store-bought
Schlitz and the like, we need to set up some Beer-brewing-intervention
teams and help more members get 'off the grid' homebrewingly speaking!
...More to come on that subject!!!