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Our February brew — a clone of Oliver Ales 3 Lions strong brown ale — came off pretty well. So well that we swept the top spots in CRABS/Oliver Ales Clone Wars Comp; with Kevin Berry's winning closed ferment all-grain version, and Greg Slack's second place closed ferment extract version.

Kevin wins a gift certificate to Pratt St. Ale House, a sixtel of 3 Lions Ale, a brew day with Steve Jones — head brewer at Oliver Ales, and last but not least, the awesome tap handle trophy in the picture!

Greg won a growler of 3 Lions, and a gift certificate to Pratt St. Ale House.

This is a big achievement for Baltibrew. It's also proof that extract brews can compete head-to-head with all-grain brews. Greg started brewing about a year ago, hosted our first big extract brew at his house, and has progressed from a relative newbie to having a three keg system, and moving up to all-grain brewing after our workday this Sunday. This is a great success for Greg, and a great success for the club and its mission of helping people with an interest in beer become great brewers.

Let's keep up the good work, Baltibrewers!

3 Lions Winner Announcement Party

It's time to find out how we did with our February brew, a clone of Oliver Ale's 3 Lions Ale. We entered 4 different versions — one each open and closed fermentation of an extract and all-grain clone of Steve Jones' Strong Brown Ale. Our versions turned out pretty nice, here's hoping we get the win with one of our beers.

Party at Pratt Street Ale House starts at 6, with the winner announced around 7. They've know for about two weeks now who won, let's find out ourselves and have a few pints. It's the least we can do to help support local brewpubs that are involved with the homebrew community.

Equipment Build

Baltibrew will be hosting a club work day to prep new equipment for our April 10th brew day with Brian Strumke. We'll be completing a second 60 quart mash tun, putting together the fittings for two new keggles (keg kettles), and generally getting everything cleaned and prepped for the following week's big event.

Work day starts at 1 p.m. at SoYeahDood HQ, and we should be finished by 6. Come hang out, learn how to build a mash tun, and help us double our brew day capacity.

Bring beer to share, and something to throw on the grill.

This week:

1. Tuesday 2/1 6 p.m. at Pratt St. Ale House — 3 Lions Clone War event.
   This was an RSVP event, but I know a number of Baltibrew members inlcuding John Jester, and myself will be in attendance. Hope to see some of the rest of you there.
2. Thursday 2/3 8 p.m. at Muggsy's in Federal Hill — Regular Monthly meeting.
   We'll go over last month's business and prepare for a vote on dues.
3. Saturday 2/5 after 9 a.m.  Greg Slack's house — February Brew day.
   Being that we did not have any other nominations for a brew, we'll be cloning 3 Lions as part of the Clone War competition mentioned above.
   Bring something to eat, and beer to share.

Hope to see you all there. If you've got questions, or comments to make, here's your thread.