March 2010 Meeting on the 18th at 7:00 PM

[Matt F]

Hello Beer Nuts! The March 2010 meeting is on Thursday the 18th at 7:00 pm. It will be at my house (Matt Franklin) which is on the southeast side of Cedar Rapids between 1st Avenue and East Post Road. It is not your normal location. It is a curvy gravel drive so please drive slowly. Google and mapquest get you close.

The address is 1102 30th Street Drive SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52403.

From 1st Ave, turn at the Walgreens on 29th Street Drive heading East towards East Post Road. Stay on 29th as it curves and becomes 30th Street Drive. My house will be on your left (North side). If you get to Indian Hill Road or East Post Road you went too far.

From East Post Road, turn at the intersection with Lakeside Road and 30th Street Drive heading West on 30th Street Drive. My house will be on your right (North side). If you get to 1st Avenue you went too far.

I have a shared driveway with 1100 30th Street Drive SE. There is a blue Linn County address sign with my house number on it on 30th Street Drive and a concrete sign at the base of my mailbox that says Franklins. Enter the driveway between the blue 1100 and 1102 signs. My neighbor has a large, silver and red grey hound bus in our shared driveway that is hard to miss on the left. You can park on the right side at the top of the drive if it looks too full up by the house. My house is the second house. The road goes down a hill and turns sharply to the left and then back to the right.

Parking is tight, but we should be able to get three cars wide in front of the garage and the rest pull in on the left side perpendicular to the drive. I attached a picture as a guide. Park like you see the white boxes in the attached picture. Try to keep it tight like a parking lot. If we run out of room you may have to park at the top of the hill on the side and in the street. A few cars should fit off the road by my mail box. Car pool if you can.

I am a basketball junkie so I will have the tournament games on as it is the first day for March Madness. As always, bring any kind of beer, especially homebrew, but since it is the day after St. Patrick's day lets get a bunch of stouts at the meeting. Also, my wife will most likely have some good eats for us. Sushi has been her thing lately. Feel free to bring some other food for the group to snack on.

If you have trouble finding the place call my cell at 654-5146. I look forward to seeing you there!

[Mr T]

First off, thanks for Franklin for hosing and as I always dig the visuals he leaves for parking.

should be a very short meeting, unless anyone has anything else they wish to talk about.

- Start taking roll call to help get an idea of club size and trends in attendence (simple check off sheet)
- Talk about name tags, many of these should be distributed at the next meeting.
- Pyment judging hopefully taking place this weekend, BRING ENRTIES if you have not all ready
- BrewBQ, - Independence - August, take a raise of hands if anyone is interested in participating (although participation is pending at the moment waiting for further details)
- BREW CAMP -- start thinking of date, Franklin has a thread started
- Teresa mentioned there special bottling party for the anniversary doppelbock, if interested you get to take a bomber home and beer provided while bottling. Its next month, but have to doublecheck what weekend it is.

as always, if you would like to suggest anything for the agenda, please do.

Hope to see you all Thursday night!

[tompb]

Millstream bottling day is April 3rd if my memory serves me right. She said something about it when we picked up the grain.