March 2025 Lehigh Valley Homebrewers Newsletter
- Steve Anthony
- Mar 22
- 4 min read
Greetings Brewers,
A reminder that our meeting will be on Tuesday, March 25th, at Two Rivers Brewing in Easton, PA. They're open to the public that day, so stop by early and grab something to eat before the meeting.
Thank you to everyone who paid their dues. We were able to make our AHA minimum for the group rate for 2025. Those of you who selected that option should see the term update reflected in your account or received an email from them if you are a new member. In either case, remember to login and set your club to Lehigh Valley Homebrewers! If you've not paid your dues yet, you can do so on the website for the non-AHA rate of $25.
Malt Madness planning is progressing! The bottle sort is scheduled for Sunday, April 13th from 1-4pm at Hijinx Brewing Company. We need volunteers to come out and help unbox, label, and organize entries that afternoon. This is very much a case of many hands make light work, so we hope you can join us so we can complete this quickly.
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!
We did not hit our minimums for new merch, and so you will have another opportunity to order at the meeting if you missed out last month. 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
Steel Stacks Spring Beer Fest - Sat, Mar 29| Steel Stacks
Malt Madness Bottle Sort - Sun, April 13| Hijinx Brewing Company
Big Brew Day - Sat, May 3| Yergey Brewing
OUR BREWERS (are awesome!)
Thanks to everyone who came out for the Bucks County Beer Bash!
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! Read the article about it here!
CLUB COMPETITIONS
Lehigh Valley Homebrewer of the Year
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 |
4/26/2025 | 4/12/2025 | |
5/10/2025 | 4/10/2025 | |
5/17/2025 | 4/29/2025 |
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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