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Welcome to HoPS Club
HoPS and MASH
 HoPS is very excited to announce a new sponsor, MASH! MASH is a homebrew shop that opened in the summer of 2012 and promotes a close community of brewers where they can come to learn the craft at any level and exchange ideas. HoPS and MASH share many of the same views and ideas in homebrewing.
In addition to being the primary sponsor of HoPS, MASH will be hosting our monthly meetings. We have moved the monthly meetings to Saturday afternoon/evening. Meetings will start at 4pm and usually last around two hours. As always, you are welcome to bring snacks and some of your brew to share with the group.
A huge "Thank You" to Jason & Jenn....and congratulations to you both!
HoPS 3rd Annual Cider Press
 On October 27th Garry & Traci Lienhard hosted the HoPS 3rd Annual Cider Press at their home, Winter Creek Farm. This year we had 24 adults and 7 kids from homebrew clubs throughout Western Washington. Our apple of choice again this year was Honeycrisp. We started the pressing activities at 9am and finished pressing all 2.5tons by 4pm! Everyone took turns, rotating from cutting the apples to running the presses. There were three presses; an antique press from the late 1800's, a newer press that was built by Correll Cider Press and a brand new press built by HoPS member, Rick Davidson. The group did an amazing job and we got great efficiency from the three presses. After seven hours of pressing, we yielded about 275 gallons of fresh cider. This fresh cider is destined to be consumed fresh, made into hard cider, apple wine or any number of other things.
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