January Meeting Notes

Hoppy New year!

The Trubmeisters gathered for their first meeting of 2005 at Silver 
Spring House.  We were hosted by Maria.  She's the other girlfriend 
of Steve.  Or is it the other Steve's girlfriend?  It's one of those 
anyhow.  She let us leave a big mess in their Garden room.  It's a 
very nice room with a great view of the snow covered patio.  Really a 
great place to meet.  Maybe we should make this the place every month.  
Thank You to the Silver Spring House for letting us be there.

Maria brought out a few German Oktoberfest beers for everyone to 
enjoy.  They were lighter than expected, but still a decent beer.  
There were a few homebrews only, since the rule was no commercial 
beers not purchased on site.  Dan had his liquorices beer that had 
nothing like liquorices in it.  It's even better than it was last time 
we tasted it.  Derek brought along some porter and something else.  
George got a nice shower when he opened one of the porters.  It was 
well carbonated, but still good.  Someone else brought a growler, but 
I don't recall who.  It was also very good beer.  Rather than repeat 
that over and over, all the beers were good.  Jim and Sue brought 
along an Elderberry Port.  Wow!  Nice beverage.  There were a couple 
other beers too I'm sure.

We had only three 750ml bottles.  Diana and I brought some Black 
Raspberry Merlot that was sweet and pretty good.  Also a bottle of Mint 
Mead.  High alcohol and so sweet that it balanced pretty good.  
Finally, there was a bottle of our Pyment.  Due to a shifted decimal 
point, it has 10 times too much sulfur flavor in it.  :-(  Hard to 
drink much of it, but I'm working through the bottles anyhow.  :-)

Food was off the menu.  We had an assortment of things.  I will 
"review" the Teriyaki Steak sandwich since that's what I had.  The bun 
was a great soft and fresh tasting piece of bread.  I'm picky about my 
bread, so that's a compliment!  The steak was very tender and had 
wonderful taste.  The teriyaki flavor was a bit lacking, but the steak 
was so good, it made up for it.  I had onion rings with it.  They were 
huge!  Nice sweet onions and not too tough.  They were too big for my 
teeth, so it made it hard to bite once without sucking the onion out of 
the breading.  They were soft enough that 2 or 3 bites did it.  Good 
flavor and over all quite good.  I would say the food is well worth the 
price.

We had a cute little raffle.  Suzie ... er, I mean Debbie, handed out 
cards and drew for winners.  She made up rules for who won as we went 
along.  That ensured that her pre-planned winners won.  Derek got a bar 
of soap for White Trash.  Sue and Steve swapped cards, so Sue won the 
PMS soap.  It would have been better if Steve would have gotten it.  
Maria won the bitch soap, and I don't remember who won the slut soap, 
but it was one of the guys!  Each bar had 3 usage statements.  You 
should scrub for 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 2 minutes depending on how 
bad you are.  The slut soap was 30 sec if you have sex after the first 
date, 1 min if you have sex on the first date, and 2 minutes if you 
don't wait for a date.  Use your imagination for the other bars.  
Thanks Suzie for the raffle items.

No big political movements except that Derek is now President for 
life.  He is hosting next month with his former girlfriend Niki at 
their place.  She will be former after she finds out what kind of 
degenerates he has chosen to hang out with now.

Dan had an interesting shirt I want to have for work.  If I told you 
about it, it would ruin the surprise.  You'll just have to show up at 
meetings to find out about it.  I don't think we had any new members 
this month.  The normal crowd was there including 2 George's, 2 
Steve's, a Tony, a Dan, a Jim, a Jeff, a Derek, a Tom, a Diana, a 
Debbie, a Maria, a Sue, and a MJ.  I want to welcome Tony, Steve, and 
Maria back after a long break away from us!

You've all heard that on a V!agr@ bottle it says if you've had an 
erection for more than 4 hours you should go to a hospital.  Do you 
know what happens once you get to the hospital?  They send you to 
the Head Nurse!

See you all at Derek and Niki's place next month.  They will send 
out directions as we get closer to February.

A Good Beer To All, And Too All A Good Beer!

Jeff Kane