Greetings Brewers,
A reminder that our meeting will be on Tuesday, February 25th, at Sage Alley Brewing in Coopersburg, PA. They're closed to the public that day, but their kitchen will be open for those who want food. The menu is available here; they will be open beginning at 6:30pm and we have a hard out at 9:30pm this month.
A reminder that it's time for dues! If you're interested in the AHA + club dues bundle at $45, you must pay by the 26th! Otherwise, the rate is $25 for new and existing members. See the website for details and a link to pay.
Malt Madness is coming up! No you're not crazy, we've decided to move the event to May 10th in conjunction with Lehigh Valley Beer Week! We hit out cap of 150 entries and raised it to 175, so if you have a last minute addition enter now. Once we hit that new cap, we don't anticipate expanding it further.
As part of Malt Madness, the Lehigh Valley Homebrewers and Lehigh Valley Beer Week are proud to present CRAFTED, a Malt Madness homebrew tasting event, May 10th from noon-3pm at the Spinnerstown Hotel. This will be a free to the public ticketed event, followed by the awards ceremony for Malt Madness. We will be looking for volunteers to help run the event day of, so watch the Events page for opportunities to sign up!
Valhalla results are finally out and we're happy to announce our winners for Homebrewer of the Year for 2024!
1st Place, John Litak
2nd Place, Joe Eberhardt
3rd Place, Rob Myers
Congratulations to our winners and a reminder that we will be pausing the competition for the first couple months of 2025 while we look to revisit the format. If you have ideas, let us know.
New merch will be available to order at the meeting. We're doing a run on short and long sleeve T-shirts featuring new art from Jon Billet at Wishful Thinking. Short sleeves will be $20 and long sleeves $25.
Finally, the usual reminder that we've been looking for an alternative with a low barrier to entry for notifying those interested in news, festival opportunities, or event reminders, etc. outside of the monthly newsletter cycle. To this end, we've created the "LVHB News" Google Group. If you're interested, you should be able to search for lvhb-news@googlegroups.com in the Google Groups search and request to join.
See you Tuesday,
Steve Anthony
LVHB Club President
Future Meetings:
Meetings are open to anyone (21 and older) who home brews (beer, wine, cider, mead) or is interested in learning about home brewing. Our club has over 30 certified judges and several members who have "gone pro" by opening their own brewery, meadery, or distillery! - So bring your latest craft creation and get some constructive feedback and/or accolades!
UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS
Bucks County Beer Bash - Sat, Mar 08 | The Fuge
Steel Stacks Spring Beer Fest - Sat, Mar 29| Steel Stacks
OUR BREWERS (are awesome!)
Congratulations to our members who placed at Valhalla!
Melody Stout, for taking 3rd on the table with her Pyment mead
John Litak, who took 2nd on the table for his Semi-Sweet mead
Thanks to Bill Roesch, who made it out to Wallenpaupack Brewing to represent the club and help with their collaboration beer to celebrate Jimmy Carter's legalization of homebrewing!
Congratulations to all our members who competed their PLCB RAMP Server/Seller Training this past month!
CLUB COMPETITIONS
Lehigh Valley Homebrewer of the Year
Valhalla results are finally out and we're happy to announce our winners for Homebrewer of the Year for 2024!
1st Place, John Litak
2nd Place, Joe Eberhardt
3rd Place, Rob Myers
Congratulations to our winners and a reminder that will be pausing the competition for the first couple months of 2025 while we look to revisit the format. If you have ideas, let us know.
UPCOMING BJCP COMPETITIONS
Full list is available here.
Recommended Local Homebrew Competitions:
Competition | Date | Registrations Due |
3/8/2025 | 3/1/2025 | |
3/23/2025 | 3/7/2025 | |
5/10/2025 | 4/10/2025 |
OTHER CLUB INFO
The details for most of our happenings (news, events, etc.) will either be included in the monthly newsletter or will be found on the LVHB Website Club Info page. More random thoughts, photos, and links will be shared via the club Facebook page. Find photos of our brewing activities on Instagram! @lehighvalleyhomebrewers
Are you an AHA member? As we prepare to do club membership renewals, it's a good time to consider adding or renewing an AHA Membership for yourself or your brewing buddy. Use our link (click the image below) and the club gets credit for your membership!
Member Benefits
Keystone Homebrew Supply offers 10% off online and in-store purchases for LVHB members as well as a points based loyalty reward program. They offer weekly local delivery on Saturday at Bonn Place in Bethlehem (just place your order by Thursday). Keystone offers full sacks of grain as well as a large selection of brewing and wine making equipment. Also, for most local competitions they provide a drop off point so you don't have to mail in your entries! https://www.keystonehomebrew.com/ Hop and Grain offers members 20% off purchases on their online store, free shipping and flexible local pick-up options. You'll find them very accommodating, even if you require a special order. https://hopandgrain.us/
Brew Hardware offers members a 5% discount as well! https://www.brewhardware.com/Default.asp
GrogTags offers members 15% off with the code on the member page - get creative with your labels and prepare for the 2025 label competition!
There's no excuse not to brew because you can't get ingredients or equipment! Thank you to the local shops that support our club!
See all the benefits of membership as well as how to join here.
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