Brewings Brewings Vol 33 Issue 1

SCHELL ' S BORDER BATCH

Volume 33 Issue 1

Some words from the Pres, time sure does fly when your not having much fun. Medical report looks better as we go though time. Missed the first Christmas party cause of you know, bad weather, next one we had tickets to Chanhassen Dinner Theatre. Had a great time and good show, stopped at Floyds in Victoria, Down South or something in New Germany, Neeson ' s, Gaylord, And Dave ' s Place in Lafayette, great day for all that could show. Auction time this winter had been slow to say the least, went to Storden one Sunday with Dan & Barb, not any good beer stuff, but we always find some damn thing to buy that we don ' t need. Had to stop in Darfur for beer to make the day complete. New chapter business we’ ve added a Facebook page to our clubs online presence. If you use Facebook simply look up Schell’ s Border Batch and then hit the“ Like” button to start following our Facebook activity. Feel free to post pictures and comments. Facebook has over 500 million users so this could give our club some good additional exposure to potential new members and collectors. Now some info on some new club things. For those of you that use Twitter on your computer or Smartphone we also have a Twitter account that you can follow us on. Twitter allows the club to post instant news updates up to 140 characters which are broadcast over the internet by Twitter to followers. Followers can get these updates right on their phones and it also allows us to put these“ tweets” as they are called on the front page of our website instantly from anywhere with a Smartphone. Just another way to try and help keep you up to date with chapter news and happenings. The great thing is both of these services are free to use so there’ s no added expense for these services. There are some great chapter events coming up this year. Our spring meeting with be March 26 th at Tom and Judy Terwilliger’ s house in LuVerne, Iowa. Also we’ ll be going to Billie Jo’ s for some beers. This is a local bar / restaurant in Algona that features many Schell’ s beers on tap. Our spring show at the Schell Brewery is again in conjunction with

the Dakota Chapters show. Our show is Sunday April 17 th from 10 a. m. till 2 p. m. in the parking lot and the old tap room at Schell’ s. The August meeting will once again be at Mike and Chris Anderson’ s lake home on Lura Lake near Mapleton, MN. Bring your camper. There’ ll be two pontoon boats and of course the“ boat car” will be on the lake for rides and fun. This is a great time you won’ t want to miss! Stubiefest is back on it’ s now permanent 3 rd weekend of September. The Hamm’ s club has agreed to hold their show a week earlier so we don’ t conflict with CANvention. The one thing we really need to work on for Stubiefest this year is getting the trade show back up. We’ ll place an ad in the New Ulm paper to try and bring in some walk-through’ s that hopefully will buy and maybe bring something to sell? This show will still feature all the fun stuff you’ ve come to expect like the Billy beer can shoot, hayride, camping and karaoke. Don’ t forget Guzzle N Twirl in October one of the biggest brewerianna shows in the country and the Border Batch Christmas party in tentatively scheduled for Saturday December 10, 2011. The chapters latest project is a Schell’ s Border Batch cookbook. This project is being headed up by Lori Johnson( Stubie’ s girlfriend) and Judy Terwilliger. They are looking for all kinds of recipes for this cookbook and need them by March 1 st to be included. They are hoping to have this book printed and ready to sell by the time the Nordlager boys have their Cloquet Show. Speaking of the Cloquet show there will be a pretty good Border Batch presence there again this year. This show is a lot of fun with camping and lots to do in the Cloquet area. Bock Beer Release party ' s are one more thing New Ulm ' s greatest assess the Schell ' s Brewery is doing for use who are lucky enough to partake. New head gear being worked on as I write, for the next fest is just around the corner, make plans to show or be square. That ' s one old and dumb line but it ' s to late I said it! Larry

January 2011

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