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Lancaster Liederkranz 

Weekly Club News 04.18.18
Club Hours of Operation
Mon-Thur: 4-11pm
Fri-Sat: 4-12am
Closed Sun. except for special events. Guests must be signed-in and accompanied by a member.
Dining Hours   
Wednesday
4:00 Bar & 5:30-7:30 Tables
Thursday
5:30-8:00* Bar & Tables
*7:30 meeting nights
Friday-Saturday
5:30-8:30 Bar & Tables
Members' Corner 
Notices for members by members. Check out items of interest on the Members Corner 
On Tap Beer Newsletter 
Posted at the end of this email.  Past newsletters are posted on the Bar Page
BJ's Memberships 
The Liederkranz has a business membership with BJ's Wholesale Club which extends a reduced annual membership fee to LLK members at $30.
Reply to this email for information. Please note BJ's in subject. 
This Week 
Friday - 7:00 Music at the Bar by Autumn Brew
Sunday - 11:00-1:00 Chorus Fundraiser Breakfast
And- Noon-2:00 Fest Volunteer Sign-up Day - info on events below.
Chorus Fundraiser Breakfast 
Sunday, April 22, 11am-1pm
$10 per person
Tickets are available for purchase a t t he Bar. Enjoy a delicious breakfast prepare d by the Chorus. Desserts will be available for donation, the Bar will feature Mimosas and Bloody Marys and music will be provided for your enjoyment! 
Voluntee r Sign-Up Day 
Sunday, April 22, noon-2pm
Come for breakfast and then stop in the Rathskeller to sign- up for volunteer work at our annual 2018 fest fundraisers: Sommerfest, Parrot Fest and Oktoberfest.
A link for signup is also available on our SignUp Genius site, linked here and also on the Volunteer Page of the website. Fest cake donation sign-up is also listed on the site.
Alter Stamm Luncheon 
Wednesday, April 25, 11am
This event is by invitation.  If you are new to meeting the event requirements and would like to attend, please contact Judy Zodet to be added to the guest list.

Members must have been affiliated with the Prince St. Club location and be at least 70 years young to attend. 
Spring Work Day
Saturday, April 28, 9am-3pm
Come out and help us get ready for the upcoming rental and fest seasons.  Tasks will include light gardening and carpentry as well as maintenance and cleaning.  We will be mulching the flower beds, so we ask that you bring a wheel barrow, rakes, shovels and gloves, if you can.
Food and beverages will be provided.  In order to get a head count, please contact Mary Munster to let her know you are coming.
As always, many hands make light work, so please consider coming out to help get ready for upcoming events and warmer weather.  Come when you can...leave when you need to.
Bus to Philly and the 53rd Saengerfest, Concert and Dinner 
June 2 - Songfest Event
April 22 - Bus Res. Deadline
The Liederkranz Chorus will participate in the 53rd Triennial Songfest along with a dozen other German singing societies throughout the northwest. The event, by the Northeastern Saengerbund of America, will be held at the Canstatter Volkfest Verein in Philadelphia.
We invite Club members to join our trip to Philadelphia for the day. Cost is $45/pp and includes bus seat, concert ticket and dinner.  For more information, please contact Chorus member Laura Schaeffer. 
Parrot Fest Tickets now on sale to general public
Parrot Fest - Friday, July 20, 5-11pm
Table seats and general admission tickets are still available. All tickets are $12/ea. Full tables of 10 seats are $120. Partial table seating may be purchased.
Email the Club for information. A table diagram is available for viewing on the Fest page of the website.   
Upcoming Schedule of Events 
April  
20
  - 7:00 Friday Music at the Bar - Autumn Brew
22
 - 11:00-1:00 Chorus Fundraiser Breakfast
22
 - Noon-2:00 Fest Volunteer Sign-up Day
25
 - Alter Stamm Luncheon for Prince St. Club members - by invitation
26
 - 7:00 Team Trivia
28
 - Trustee Club Workday
28
  - 5:00 Mixed Chorus Spring Concert at Zion Church, Landisville

 * Sponsored event, open to the public.

May   
3
 - 7:00 General Membership Meeting
4
 - 7:00 Friday Music at the Bar - Maria, John & Chip
10
  - 7:00 Team Trivia
12
 * 7:00-11:00 Maitanz music by Joe Kroboth Band
18
  - 7:00 Friday Music at the Bar - Randy Z
24
 - 7:00 Team Trivia
25
  - 7:30 Friday Music in the Ballroom - Kompass Rose
28
  - Memorial Day - Club Closed

 * Sponsored event, open to the public.

Largest Maypole Dance 05.09.15
 
Regards,
Linda Feilmeier, email & website administrator

Lancaster Liederkranz, 722 S. Chiques Rd., Manheim, PA 17545
717.898.8451 (M-S after 4pm)

On Tap 
Lancaster Liederkranz Beer News 
April 18, 2018 
 


The Beer Team at the Lancaster Liederkranz is happy to provide some wonderful beers to you dedicated beer drinkers. Here are some of the current highlights.
In May 1867, the Leinenkugel family brewery was founded in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin by Jacob Leinenkugel. He looked to his German family heritage as a key to his brewery's long term success. Although purchased by Miller Coors in 1988, the sixth generation of Leinenkugels retained management control and continue to brew some of the same recipes instituted by Jacob. Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy is their unique take on Franz Kugler's original Munich tavern tradition, the Radler. A typical weiss beer is augmented with refreshing natural lemonade flavor which makes it the perfect refreshing summer quaff. Plenty of wheat and malt accentuate the classic lemon taste at an easygoing 4.2% ABV. In 2012, Leinie's Summer Shandy won a Silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in the Fruit Wheat Beer category. It pairs well with and fresh summer food; BBQ chicken, fruit salads, watermelon and freshly caught, grilled fish.
La Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes was opened by Jerome Rebetez in Saignelégier, Canton Jura, in 1997, and quickly became a pioneer in Swiss artisan brewing. He was able to fund this project by winning a Swiss homebrew contest and then expressing his brewing passion on a popular television show. BFM has built a reputation for crafting rich beers with complex bouquets, remarkable tastes, and long finishes. Jerome has developed some standard styles which he supplants with special releases. The very highly rated L'Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien is an 11% ABV Biere de Garde that matures in oak barrels for 12 months and is their most popular beer. In addition, visitors to the attached pub can enjoy about 8 BFM ales on tap, local snacks, and "Good old rough Blues 'n' Rock Music"! The √225 Saison Historical was brewed for BFM's 15th Anniversary and has been in periodic rotation since 2012. The "little sister of the Bon-Chien" is a very moderate (5.4%ABV) rustic Belgian style saison matured in Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien barrels for about 4 months. Light, yet very complex with just a hint of sourness, this beer benefits from some warming in the glass.
Stéphane Ostiguy and Jean-François Gravel, opened Dieu du Ciel in 1998. This downtown Montreal microbrew pub (which still operates) was augmented by a production facility northwest of Montreal in St-Jerome at the end of 2006 and its first beers were poured in January 2008. They are well known for the pioneering Peche Mortal, a 9% ABV coffee stout in 2001. Scotch Ales traditionally go through a long boil in the kettle which caramelizes the wort producing a deep copper to brown in colored brew. Compared to Scottish Ales, a "wee heavy" is sweeter and fuller-bodied, and of course higher in alcohol, with a much more pronounced malty caramel and roasted malt flavor. A low tea-like bitterness can be found in many examples. Dieu Du Ciel Équinoxe du Printemps (French for "spring equinox") is the fortuitous marriage of two great traditions: beer brewing in Scotland, and maple syrup production in Quebec. The normal toffee Scotch Ale flavors are sustained by a discrete touch of sweetness and the aftertaste brings out just a hint of maple flavors. Although brewed to 9.1%, this slightly boozy ale is easy on the palate, yet its smooth taste and deep flavors satisfy during the last grip of winter. This is a beer that doesn't "get out" much and is very rare on draft and well worth trying.
The legendary Kulmbach brewing art can be traced back to the year 1349 with the first confirmed references to a brewery in this Franconian town. In Kulmbach - known as the "secret capital of beer" - beer was brewed in 56 breweries in the 19th century. A relatively new (1895!) brewery, Kulmbacher brews a large variety of beers; since 1996 the brands EKU, Reichel, Sandler, Kapuziner and Mönchshof are all under the Kulmbach Brewery roof. When the Reichel brewing family introduced a pilsner - the EDELHERB - for the first time in 1932, beer connoisseurs were getting used to the taste of light lager and export beers, which had previously supplanted the classic dark varieties. The Kulmbacher Edelherb Pils is a very straightforward, quality beer and has quickly gained followers for its finely honed and noble taste.
The Monschhof Kellerbier is a brilliant unfiltered lager from Kulmbacher Brewery in northern Bavaria. Take a couple sips of this luscious beer and you'll immediately understand what traditional German lager brewing is all about. Wonderfully balanced yet packed with flavor, the amber colored and naturally cloudy beer is redolent of the pre-pilsner brewing arts. 12.4 °P of original wort provides a tiny bit of original sweetness on its way to 5.4 % ABV. Sit back, relax, and enjoy with a good friend.
St. Georgen Bräu is a brewery in Buttenheim, in the Franconian section of Bavaria. Founded in 1624, it is one of several in this modest town. From 1814 to 2009, the St. Georgen-Bräu was owned by the Modschiedler family, before it was taken over by master brewer Norbert Kramer who started working there in 2000. The attached pub still pours from wooden casks stored in the brewery caves. St. Georgenbrau Keller Bier is a smooth sipping, traditionally styled keller at a lighter 4.9% ABV.
 
Lancaster Liederkranz beer drinkers enjoy quality regular beers and an array of rotating items. If one of the beers has gone off tap, ask your bartender to suggest a similar, tasty replacement.

Enjoy!
Lancaster Liederkranz Beer Guy - Jim Weber

The LLK beer staff tries to satisfy customer interests at all times by providing a range of beers for disparate tastes, alcoholic content, and budgets. We know beer drinkers at the Liederkranz take their beer seriously! If you have concerns, suggestions, comments, or just wish to send ramblings on the subject, please send to Jim Weber at jimweber.lancaster@gmail.com or Greg Buckwalter at gregbuckwalter@hotmail.com . Enjoy and see you at the club!