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| May/June
2004 |
Fermental Order of Renaissance Draughtsmen | Volume
12 Number 5/6 |
The next meeting will be held back at Bailey's Pub 'N Grille in Dearborn on Tuesday, June 22. Bailey's is located on the southeast corner of Michigan and Mason. Their address is 22091 Michigan Avenue and their phone number is 313-277-3212. As usual, the thirsty hardcore who want dinner will start arriving around 5PM, people will drift in for an hour or so, and we will start our meeting around 6PM.
We will be meeting in the lounge in the basement at Bailey's. Management at Bailey's has asked us to try to use the door closer to Michigan Ave on Mason. This door is right by the stairs to the downstairs lounge.
April's Bitter and English Pale and Irish Red Ale competition results are tabulated below.
| Mead & Cider Competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Brewer | Style | Points |
| 1st | Tyler Barber | English Pale Ale 1 | 38/50 |
| 1st | Mike A & Kathy L | Irish Red |
38/50 |
This month's competition is Wheat Beer, BJCP category #17 and 19b & 3b.
Some of you may remember that last year the F.O.R.D. club passed on a summer picnic and we instead had a very agreeable multi-club Christmas party - an instant tradition that we will do again this year. During that evening, we spoke with the AABG members and they offered to integrate the FORD club into their summer picnic and that we would integrate the AABG into the annual holiday party.
Well, circle your calendars for July 10th - this will be the picnic
date!
Fellow AABG'er Randall deBeauclair will host this years affair. It
begins at 1:00ish and goes till after dark. For directions Randy
suggests contacting him directly - he says MapQuest can throw you for a
loop when you put in his address. Also - if you pretty certain you will
attend, he would appreciate a call or email with who, how many and all
that so he can prepare appropriately.
debeau1@provide.net
2134 Copper Cove
Pinckney, MI
Home phone: 734-878-3472
Cell phone: 734-657-8748
Randy writes:
Mike O'Brien is cooking a pig (should be ready around 4:00pm) but
the official start time is 1:00pm. Some other attractions that were
confirmed at Friday's meeting: -Jason Henning will be delivering and
setting up Mike O'Briens soft serve ice cream machine. -Mike O. will be
bringing his 20 x 30 tent to set up. -Mike O. said he will try to
procure the inflatable moon-walk that he had at last years Beer-B-Que.
-Mike's tap wagon will be here, as well as a four handle jockey box of
my own. -After dark there will be a bonfire, in the fire pit only
please
Ouch! That tinyurl link seems to be having problems.
Here is the full url directly to our section: (may have to be pasted together)
or you can get to it from
http://www.doubleklix.com/cgi-bin/forum_mta/ikonboard.cgi
Tinyurl is so much smaller, but flaky!
Next month's competition style is European
Lager, BJCP category 2.
My cousin and her family took me out to dinner for my birthday at the new brewpub in Northville called the Bonfire Bistro & Brewery. Located on the north side of 7 Mile Rd., west of Haggerty (in front of Home Depot), phone 248-735-4570. I understand that this brewpub is owned by the same people that own Grizzly Peak in Ann Arbor. Upscale, on the expensive side for brewpubs (similar to Copper Canyon in that respect, but they both serve much more than the basic pub fare), very friendly wait staff. They also have a kids menu and supply each kid with an "Etch-A-Sketch" to play with (big bonus for moms & dads).
Impressive for a new
brewpub, can't wait to see how they develop...
Editor's
question - I haven't traveled up to the "Bonfire" recently.
How are they doing ??
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