Thursday, March 14, 2024

March meeting recap

Late recap of last Sunday's March 
meeting.
20 to 25 people met at the New Albanian Brewing Company.
Very successful Stout beer tasting and education by Dennis Barry. 

Three bottles and cans of stout:
Murphy's imported Stout
Dragon's milk
Deschutes obsidian
Samuel Smith oatmeal Stout
Dan Flaherty Russian imperial Stout
Left hand milk stout nitro
Brooklyn Black chocolate Stout
Founders breakfast Stout
Founders KBs
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
Stone Xocoveza imperial Stout 

And a bonus bottle of 1994 Samiclaus just for the experience. As expected, highly oxidized, with muted flavors, but many expressed that they felt it was still fairly tasty and drinkable. This is a beer that ages well but 30 years it's just a bit too long.

Many items in the raffle. Lots of fun and overall, a great meeting! Next April 14 meeting, Todd Antz will come to talk about the upcoming "Rolling on the River" beer festival, and discount tickets.

Monday, March 4, 2024

March FOSSILS meeting

This coming Sunday, the 10th, at 2:00 is our March FOSSILS meeting. 

Todd Antz is giving FOSSILS members the opportunity to purchase discount tickets for the "Rollin' on the River" beer festival, June 8th.

Per Todd, "I'll do a Fossils discount of $15 off per ticket (regularly $55, $40 for Fossils) I'll check my VIP Count, if we can do those, they'd be $50 (regularly $65) "

Cash and credit cards accepted. This discount is for dues paid FOSSILS members only, but you are welcome to pony up dues that evening. Dues are $20 per year.

Nine Stouts are the beer of the month for our beer tasting. We will also be doing  Belgians one more time in April. 

The FOSSILS Club will be having a Christmas in July party once again, at Gary and Cindy Pages house. More to come as plans are finalized. You know it's going to be a good time though. Be sure and Express gratitude to Gary and Cindy for making their home available. We are very lucky to have them in the club.

We will have a Review of the Patoka Lake brewery visit.  

We will discuss future events and meeting locations. The club has printed a whole bunch of coasters to advertise fossils. We have been encouraging members to spread these coasters around when they visit different pubs or breweries. Coasters will be available to those who want to share them to get the word out.


https://rollinontheriverfest.com/?fbclid=IwAR2LXsPZ1I_IxqFbC3PEewhdllE6Ohqof5Ru4t6LrjDil1YTmlYAZR0EaAM

We will have a raffle as usual. Bring items for the raffle, and money to buy tickets. It's a lot of fun and sometimes you go home with some pretty cool stuff.

Remember to always drink responsibly and arrange for a sober ride home if necessary.
 

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Sorry to report

It is with much sadness that I have to report that one of the long-term FOSSILS members and a past president, Larry Hovekamp, passed away suddenly several days ago. Let's all hoist a pint to one of the good guys.