Silverado Calendar of Events

2010


Silverado

Note – all Silverado club meetings take place starting at 7:30 PM on the third Thursday of each month at the Tap House Grill in St. Charles. The Tap House is located at the corner of route 64 (West Main Street/North Avenue) and Peck. (Exactly 1 mile west of Randall Road in the Westgate Shopping Plaza.)

http://taphousegrills.com/location.html


COC” designates a “Club Only Competition”


For more detail about all American Home-brewers Association Club Only Competitions, go to:

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/competitions/club-only-competitions


For more details about the BJCP style guidelines, go to the 2008 style guidelines:

http://www.bjcp.org/stylecenter.php


Silverado Monthly Calendar

Date

Event

Comment

March or April

Brew

Brew sub-category 22C (wood aged beers) for 4/21/2011 COC.

4/15/2010

April club meeting

COC – Extract beers (all BJCP categories 1-23)

5/1/2010

Big Brew

Silverado location TBD For more information on Big Brew, go here:

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/events/national-homebrew-day


May

Brew

Brew category 5C and 5D (Dopplebock and Eisbock) for March 17, 2011 COC.

May

Brew

Brew any style of beer for sampling at the North Aurora Beer Fest in August and the Great Lakes Brew Fest in September.

5/15/10

Geno’s beer tasting

Geno’s Fine Wine and Spirits (located in Elgin) is having a beer tasting on this day. Call Geno’s directly for more information at (847) 695-6688. They are located at:


300 South McLean Blvd

Elgin, IL 60123


http://www.genosfinewine.com/index.html


5/20/2010

May club meeting


5/22/10

Silverado Fox River bike tour

The club is starting in St. Charles at 11 AM and biking down the Fox river trail to Walter Payton’s Roundhouse. For more details, see this Google map…which details the bars we’re stopping at as well as the times we’re stopping:


http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_d&saddr=Filling+Station+Pub+%26+Grill+%E2%80%93+St+Charles,+IL&daddr=Little+Owl+-+101+West+State+Street+-+Geneva,+IL+to:12+North+River+Street,+Batavia,+IL+60510-2667+(O'Brien's+P ub+%26+Grill)+to:Stop+Lite+Inn+-+105+East+Wilson+Street,+Batavia,+IL+to:Walter+Payton's+Roundhouse&hl=en&geocode=FSOMfwIdxmO8-iF2KE7aMwqNEykL6DHcrgIPiDG8GbeXUcGNxA%3BFR0nfwId7ZO8-iFz0jGpbbti4ymVtdEGQP0OiDH0wffoGC7MgQ%3BFaSWfgId0Y68-iG1iMg6WLzY7Smnke62wfwOiDE3Y4yneaJatw%3B%3BFfk2fQId_4K8-iGZ9BSAh-G8LCnLIuaGvPoOiDFn3Xx3YrgMuA&mra=ls&dirflg=d&ie=UTF8&lci=bike&msa=0&msid=117123661686944084265.0004842048ed75b8d5e1f&ll=41.8941,-88.410416&spn=0.372609,0.615921&z=11


For more information, go to contacts page and e-mail the president.

6/17/2010

June club meeting


6/17/10 – 6/19/10

AHA National Home-brewers Conference in Minneapolis, MN

Silverado to attend as a club. For more details, go here:

http://www.ahaconference.org/


July

Imperial Cream Ale Fest

Dave Star’s House (if we can convince him to have this)

7/15/10

July club meeting

COC – Mead (BJCP categories 24, 25 and 26)

August

Brew

Brew categories 5A and 5B (Maibock/Helles Bock and Traditional Bock) for March 17, 2011 COC

8/19/2010

August club meeting

COC – Sour Ales (BJCP category 17)

8/28/2010

Brew-B-Que

Dave Star’s House

More information to be provided at a later time

9/16/2010

September club meeting

Dues are due

9/18/2010

Silverado to attend GLBF in Racine, WI

http://www.greatlakesbrewfest.com/foam_facts.html


10/8/10 to 10/10/10

Scarecrow Fest in St. Charles, IL

For more information about Scarecrow Fest in St. Charles, IL, please go here:


http://www.scarecrowfest.com/


10/21/2010

October club meeting

COC – Strong Ales (BJCP category 19)

October

Brew

Brew category 8 (English Pale Ale) for 1/20/2011 COC.

11/18/2010

November club meeting


12/16/2010

December club meeting





Other Local Beer Events

http://beeradvocate.com/

Date

Event

Comment

Web Site

May 2010

Blessing of the Bock

Milwaukee beer festival. Be sure to arrive for the 12 PM kickoff when a priest blesses the beer and the imbibing begins.

http://www.milwaukeebeerfest.com/info.html


5/1/10

Great Taste of the Midwest

Mail sent in to order tickets must be postmarked on 5/3/10 or later.

http://www.mhtg.org/great-taste-of-the-midwest



8/14/10

Great Taste of the Midwest

Madison, WI

http://www.mhtg.org/great-taste-of-the-midwest







Local Breweries, Pubs, or bars with a lot of good beer on tap

http://beerme.com/breweries/us/il/index.shtml

Brewery

Location (City)

Web Site

Emmett’s Tavern and Brewery

West Dundee, IL

http://www.emmettstavern.com/index.php


Two Brothers Tap House

Warrenville,

IL

http://www.twobrotherstaphouse.com

Charlie’s Ale House

Wheaton, IL

http://www.charliesalehouse.com/


Map Room

Chicago, IL

http://www.maproom.com/


Walter Payton’s Roundhouse

Aurora, IL

http://www.walterpaytonsroundhouse.com/




Other Useful Links

Site

What’s great about this site

URL

Mr. Malty

Lots of great brewing information

http://www.mrmalty.com/


HopsDirect

Great variety, low prices.

http://www.hopsdirect.com/


Grape Stompers

Anything for wine-making

http://www.grapestompers.com/


Gordon’s Food Service

All kinds of food products you can add to your beer

http://www.gfs.com/en



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