Meeting #10 - BEER!

Meeting #10 will be held at Ross and Jeff's house at 158 N. Willard St. at 7:3opm on Tuesday, April 3rd. The topic of the meeting will be beer. We will brew our own beer (a stout) and discuss and taste different beers.

Everyone needs to bring a six pack of their favorite beer, or a beer they want to try. Also, if you have not paid your $20 membership fee, buck up.

get thirsty.

Note from Ross...

The format will be
a)discussion about the two main kinds of beer and methods of brewing beer

b)Next we will put together a list of "qualities" for a few of the beers that people have brought, to help illustrate key ingredients. Then we will start drinking said beers.

c)Beginning brewing (we will be making 5 gal of either a stout of a porter)

d)Bottling a batch that I made last week.

e)talking about how awesome we all are (repeat if neccessary)

I'm no expert on brewing, but I've done it 10 times or so. I'm doing my best to put together some info and hopefully lurn y'all some. Come on! It's beer afterall!

BRING: a 6 pack of either your favorite (good) beer or a beer you have always wanted to try. Go out on a limb here.
ALSO BRING: your membership dues if this is your third meeting. Dues ($20) pay for the homebrew beer supplies, so no payee, no get beeree.

Tuesday, 7:30 pm.
158 North Willard St
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Meeting #9 - location

Tomorrow's meeting will not be at the Euro Cafe. It will be held at Ross and Jeff's house at 158 North Willard @ 7pm sharp. BYOB.

Also, for some meetings we are starting to have expenses, if you have not paid already, please bring your $20 membership fee.

Meeting #8 and #9 - details, etc

Getting back on track... Allan is in good health again and Ross is healing well. The last two meetings we have schedule revolved around them so we have had to make some changes.

Meeting #8 will be Tuesday, 3/13 at 7:30pm at Wine Works. This will be another "no topic" meeting, come and have good drinks with good friends and think up some good ideas.

Meeting #9 will be Tuesday, March 20th at 7:00pm at the Euro Cafe (location to be confirmed). We will be screening the movie "The Player", Directed by Robert Altman. Our own Allan Nicholls was the Assistant Director and will give us a "directors cut" walk through and discussion after. Please be on time because we need to start the movie.

Here are the next six meeting times and topics:
3/13 - no topic
3/20 - Screen "The Player"
4/3- Beer tasting and home brew session
4/17 - Peaceoneday.org
5/1 - Idealization of social democracies
5/15 - idea/topic session

Meeting #7 - update

Allan is under the weather and will not be able to make it tonight, so we will not be screening the player.

We will just get some drinks at the wine bar at 7pm and just chill out and have some good conversation, no particular topic.

meeting #7 - topic/details

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 27th at 7:00pm at the Euro Cafe. We will be screening the movie "The Player", Directed by Robert Altman. Our own Allan Nicholls was the Assistant Director and will give us a "directors cut" walk through and discussion after. Please be on time because we need to start the movie.

We've also had a change in structure that I will write about this weekend, but in the meantime, here are the next six meeting times and topics:
2/28 - Screen "The Player"
3/13 - Beer tasting and home brew session
3/27 - Peaceoneday.org
4/10 - Idealization of social democracies
4/24 - idea/topic session

meeting #6 - details/topic

Meeting #6 will be on Tuesday, 2/13 at 7:30pm at the Euro Cafe at 61 Main St.

Topic: living sustainably/dealing with the post-oil world/global warming/etc.

Why? check this out:

http://stepitup07.org/

Bill McKibben started this. Groups around the country will join him on April 14 to participate in the largest global-warming rally in history. It's a call to action. Maybe this is something some GIS members would want to spearhead here in Burlington (though I bet there are already groups making plans for this). Plus, the IPCC just released its report on climate change...and the news ain't good.

Meeting #5 - recap

The topic of "the last book you read" was a lot of fun. Allan did a good job recaping below. At this point we would like everyone to make a comment to this post with the last book they read.

From Allan...

Without the participation of Jeffrey Adam things weren't quite the same...you were missed. The discussion of all the books covering Clinton's life, the Bosnian uprising, the memoir of Jennifer Walls, the Chef's book, Nick Hornby's suicide stories and my South African cop story showed some pretty interesting diversity....not to forget Ross' house buying guide ( and his other book which I cannot recall) and my "reading to my child" books which are always offering up something of a treat to me.I am looking forward to the change of venue suggested and also the topic to be dealt with at our next get together, which may or may not include the evasive Phil Tucker. oh yes...I forgot to mention the most interesting book of them all Lovell's "comments from a spy"or something, that apparently poorly written but well received because of family ties...I can relate to that. All in all it was low key and stimulating conversation...there were no "fart jokes" thank you very much!

meeting #5 - details/topic

Meeting #5 will be on Tuesday, 1/30 at 7:30pm at the Wine Bar.

Topic: Come ready to discuss the last book you read.

Location?

Do we want to continue at the wine bar?
We could move to the Euro cafe (on Main st) and have the place to ourselves as long as we spend $100 on beer, wine, food, etc.
Or is there another location that you're interested in.
Speak your mind, have a good idea or at least an opinion.

Meeting 4 Re(cap)solutions

Here are some bullet points right from the source - wine works napkins (best note paper ever). We hope to hear resolutions at the next meeting from those who couldn't attend this week's meeting. Next meeting will be January 23rd and get some ideas in the bank.