Socials – North Texas Homebrewers Association

January 19, 2024

Reminder! Winter Party THIS Saturday!

Smitty here. Reminding everyone about our Winter Party coming up tomorrow starting at 6:30 PM. The club is providing a BBQ trifecta of pulled pork, chicken, and jalapeno-cheddar sausage. As always, please bring an appetizer, side, or desert. Our address is HERE.

We will award the Brewer Royale trophy and prizes along with the Big Mohunker prize. You must be present to win the Big Mohunker.

Please bring your own beverages of choice, including and especially homebrew to share. The club kegerator is not slated to be in attendance, but we do have a limited number of spare jockey boxes should you wish to bring a keg. Tap space is first come, first served, so please email [email protected] no later than 6PM today to reserve a space. If you do not let me know or we run out of available taps, you will need to supply your own gas and dispensing method.

Texas weather in January is living up to expectations tomorrow with high only in the upper 30’s. Our garage bar is climate controlled and well ventilated, so we should have plenty of room to congregate somewhere inside. Smoking is permitted in the garage bar.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at [email protected].

Cheers!
Smitty

January 11, 2024

Recap of Tuesday Meeting/Socials Update/Upcoming Events

I covered a lot of ground at last night’s meeting and wanted to provide a recap along with a rundown of the events this month.

Brewdays:

Brewdays will be on the 3^rd Saturday of each month unless: 1) there is not a brewday that month, OR 2) there is a special event.
Brewdays will occur at the NTHBS unless someone volunteers to host at their place
Brewdays will require at least one volunteer to brew. Preferably, other brewers participate. You can bring your own equipment or brew on the store Gen 3 35L 240V Brewzilla.
See Club Calendar HERE for dates.

Club Meetups:

One per quarter with possibly one or two others added throughout the year. Stay tuned.
Q1 – Bluebonnet
Q2 – Pub Crawl possibly w/Dallas area clubs
Q3(September) – Oktoberfest @ Bavarian Grill
Q4 – Local brewery, likely Autonomous Society

Events this month:

Saturday, Jan 13 9am-3pm: Brewday at Mike Grover’s. As always, members are welcome to brew. Otherwise, please come by, socialize, and bring your homebrew for sharing and evaluation. More details HERE.
Saturday, Jan 20 6:30pm-???: Winter Party at James Smith’s.
At the time of this post, the club will provide smoked pulled pork, sausage, and chicken.
Bring an appetizer, side, or desert to share, along with your homebrew.
We will award the Big Mohunker and Brewer Royale prizes.
Bring your homebrew to share! Commercial beer allowed also. If you plan on bringing a keg, we have jockey boxes to serve your beer from. Please send an email to [email protected].
More details HERE.
Saturday, Jan 27 8am – 3pm: Big Rig Brewday / Housewarming Party: 5pm till ???
Some of you know that one of our longtime club members Wayne Yandell has a 1.5 bbl 3-vessel system that the club and others brew on from time to time. Several award-winning beers have been brewed on this system in recent years, including Labor of Love best of show and a Bluebonnet stein.
A group from the club will be brewing a Czech Pilsner(BJCP 3B Czech Premium Pale Lager) on Saturday, Jan 27 starting at 8am. Anyone is welcome to attend and even help brew if you want. Wayne and his wife, Jennifer are graciously hosting a house warming party starting at 5pm as they have recently completed construction at their new residence on this beautiful property. Please RSVP to Wayne at his email address HERE. The address is HERE.

Club Parties:

I did not touch on club parties throughout the year for the benefit of anyone new. Last year, we had 4 club parties throughout the year and we plan to continue with that, assuming we get volunteer hosts. Aside from the Winter Party mentioned above, they are presently TBD as follows:

Spring Party: Sometime April-June timeframe.
Limbo Awards/Summer Party: Follows Limbo Judging in August
Fall/Oktoberfest Party: September/October

Stay tuned on these events throughout the year.

In conclusion, we have a busy slate of activities coming up this year. As I stated in the January Newsletter, our success as a club with these events relies on member attendance. We understand everyone is very busy and the likelihood for most of attending every event isn’t possible. Please plan to attend as many as you can. If you have ANY questions about brewdays and events, please do not hesitate to email me HERE.

Thanks!
“Smitty”

December 12, 2023

Club Meeting Tonight – Last of 2023

This is a friendly reminder of our last club meeting of the year.

Location: Lakewood Brewing Company

Address: 2302 Executive Dr, Garland, TX 75041

We will be arriving around 6:30pm with business starting at 7:00pm

Hope to see all 73 Club Members there

Saude, Marcio

September 30, 2023

PUB CRAWL!

Join us for a NTHBA pub/beer crawl on Saturday, October 28th from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm. We will board the bus from 3 Nations Brewing Co. in downtown Carrollton at 1:00 pm and then head south to Peticolas Brewing Co., Manhattan Project Beer Co., Autonomous Society and Four Corners Brewing Co. We will return to 3 Nations by 7:00 pm.

Members may purchase a ticket for themselves and a guest for $10 each. Member’s guests do not need to be a member. Additional non-members may purchase their own ticket for $20. Your receipt will be your ticket to ride.

Ticket may be purchased here: https://nthba.org/product-category/pub-crawl/

September 13, 2023

Oktoberfest Tickets sent by email

Hello NTHBA – Some of you attended the club meeting yesterday and received your Oktoberfest paper tickets.

For the list of people below, I have sent your Oktoberfest ticket by email in a pdf format. Please reply back to me acknowledging you received your tickets

Harry	Anderson	2
Brian	Beyer	2
Mike	Dwyer	2
Jason	Garland	2
Leroy	Gharis	1
Michael	Grover	1
Scott	Parker	1
DB	Van Gilder	1

Thank you

Marcio Fazzani

August 31, 2023

Oktoberfest Waitlist Status

Hello everyone – We currently have 3 names in the Waitlist – If we can get total of 5 more in the waitlist and table at the event are still available we can get another table. Please click in the link below and add your name in the list if interested.

Eventbrite Link

August 30, 2023

Tickets are now for Sale!

Hello everyone – 2023 Addison Oktoberfest Eventbrite tickets are now for sale. We have 16 tickets and they are first come first serve. Click the link below to buy your ticket.

Eventbrite Link

There is a waitlist. If the 16 tickets sell out and we get 8 on the waitlist and tables are still available, we will get another table.

Tickets are $15 each and include:

One single day general admission for Friday September 15 only.
One reserved seat at one of our tables in the Partyhalle deck table.
One commemorative 0.5L Stein.
One Paulaner beer.
One commemorative lapel pin.
Access to private bar.

August 28, 2023August 29, 2023

2023 Addison Oktoberfest

The month of September is just around the corner so is the Oktoberfest.

On behalf of the Officers team, I would like to announce that our September club meetup will be at the 2023 Addison Oktoberfest on Friday September 15.

NTHBA has two tables reserved on Friday September 15 at the Partyhalle deck table area with a total of 16 seats. NTHBA will partially subsidize this event, and the remaining will be paid by the members that would like to attend the event.

Members will buy an Eventbrite ticket for $15. Each Eventbrite ticket includes:

One single day general admission for Friday September 15 only.
One reserved seat at one of our tables in the Partyhalle deck table.
One commemorative 0.5L Stein.
One Paulaner beer.
One commemorative lapel pin.
Access to private bar.

Tickets will be available for purchase starting on Wednesday August 30th at noon, first come first serve, in the Eventbrite link below:

Eventbrite Link

IMPORTANT NOTE – Members must be current with your dues to be eligible to purchase the tickets.

August 28, 2023

Summer Party / Limbo Award Ceremony

This past Saturday we had an amazing Summer party which included the Limbo award ceremony. As Bill stated on his speech, this competition has received great quality beers. Besides all NTHBA members that attended the party, Chris Daily from San Antonio Cerveceros club was also present and ended up receiving his two third place medals live. Congratulations to the NTHBA brewers Terry Olinger, Reed Smollar, Mark Rendon for your winning medals.

Thanks for all NTHBA members that entered the competition and those that volunteered for judging, we could not have done without you.

Thanks for our 2023 Limbo Director Bill with the overall competition organization and Jimmy “The Data Guy” to make sure the backend system was properly working creating a great customer experience for the entrants to register/pay/check results online.

Last but not least – A Big Thanks for Brian & Melinda hosting this event, dedicating extra time on preparation and cleaning, making the swimming pool available during the 100F+ heat, smoking ribs, sausage, brisket, chicken and more – THANK YOU.