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Tonight is our rescheduled regular December meeting at Muggsy's.

There are a few topics to discuss:

• What/Where to brew in January
• Last week's Guild Holiday Party — outcomes & opinions — plus! what about next year?
• Next month's regular meeting — January 6th work for everyone? Everyone back from holiday?
• How does Baltibrew proceed in 2011? Elections? Treasuries? — You tell us

The thought is that we'll try to take care of these items quickly, and then move on to some revelry.

Thereafter, let's hang out and share some holiday cheer against the frigid onslaught outside.

Bring your significant other and we'll all do our best to avoid alienating them with too much beer geekery. As usual, we are privileged, and welcome to bring homebrew to be shared upstairs — Holiday beers preferred! — but of course, don't forget Muggsy's fine selection of beers and eats!

We had a great meeting a couple weeks ago and if you couldn't make it, check out what we talked about:

• November Brew - It was decided our november brew, which would be our competition brew for the holiday guild party, will be a spiced doppelweizen since our club theme is Griswold Christmas and wanted to go for a egg-nog ish beer.

• Guild Christmas Party - December 4th (tickets about sold out) at the Heavy Seas Brewery.  The overall theme is German and our club theme is Griswold Family Christmas.  We have to make some appetizers (jello mold/turkey jerky, etc.) to go along with our theme and help set up decorations as well.  Some possible volunteers were: Greg, John, Ian, and Matt.  Also of note to significant others is that there is more than beer available at the party.

• December Meeting - December 9th @ muggsy's.  The idea is for this to be more of a holiday celebration where we can bring some friends/wives/gf's/bf's and have some drinks, listen to some christmas tunes, etc.  Open to ideas.

• BJCP Classes - The BJCP classes are about to start in February and we get 2 spots for our club.  People that were interested in doing this were: John, Shawn, and Josh.

• January Brew - We will be holding a poll to decide our January brew style, suggested so far are: Imperial Stout, Eisbock, Double IPA, Nut Brown Ale.  Please add in the comments any more additions.

• Chilibrew II Wrap-up - Ian informed us that ChiliBrew II was a huge success with about 200 people showing up to help the causes and enjoy homebrew and great homemade chili.  We helped raise $1,400 for Velocipede and Baltimore Free School.  Thanks to everyone who helped, and a HUGE thanks to Ian for putting it together and offering up ass his beer when everyone else ran out.  We are looking at April or May for possible dates for ChiliBrew III so stay tuned.

Baltibrewers:
Got the official word that Guild Holiday Party Tickets are ON SALE NOW. Buy them here: http://www.mdhomebrewers.org/holiday

Tickets are only available online, cost $25, and proceeds go to charity.

If you are interested in going, get on this ASAP. Tickets ALWAYS sell out.

Our theme for "Club Hour" is "Griswold Family Christmas." We have a subcommittee that should get going soon to help get this in order. Individual emails about this will go out on Monday-ish.

Further details about the party after the jump.

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Our November meeting will be this Thursday 11/4, 8 p.m. upstairs @ Muggsy's
At the meeting we'll be discussing the following:

• When/What will be our November brew (for submission into the guild xmas party competition)
• Guild Holiday Party 12/5 @ Heavy Seas Brewery (Tickets, what we're brewing and pairing the resultant brew with, etc.)
• Options for the December meeting (Comp? Food and Beer Pairing? White Elephant? Secret Santa? — You tell us.)
• Next year's BJCP class (Who wants in?)
• What to brew in January

As always, you are welcome to bring homebrew.

As our normal first Thursday meeting coincides with the opening tap ceremony and kickoff of Baltimore Beer Week we will be skipping the Thursday in favor of Friday's Chilibrew competition at the 2640 space, an event we're sponsoring as part of BBW. We encourage you to come out and support your fellow Baltibrewers by trying some beer, and tasting some chili. More details can be found on the Chilibrew event site.

Hope to see you there!