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Queso Diego October Meeting Announcement

October 17th 2023 Queso Diego Meeting

Potluck at 6:30 & Meeting at 7:00

AleSmith Brewery
9990 AleSmith Ct.
San Diego, CA 92126

We have a wonderful guest speaker this month. Zoe Brickley form Jasper Hills Farm will be speaking about the creamery and cheese making processes. She is an excellent speaker and Jasper Hills Farm is one of the best creameries in the country. Check out the website,
jasperhillfarm.com

We will enjoy our potluck and socializing prior to the meeting. The meeting will be upstairs instead of the barrel room, as AleSmith has Halloween festivities going on.

Members are encouraged to bring homemade brews and cheese. If you do bring something for the club to enjoy, please provide everyone with a short description about it prior to the commencement of the potluck.

Once again, board elections are in November, so if anyone is interested in serving on the board let us know. The club has specific needs for Treasurer and Education.

There are chairs in the upstairs area, so no need to bring one, Looking forward to seeing you!

Cheers!

Queso Diego October Meeting Announcement

MOVIE NIGHT at Queso Diego, October 18.
Potluck at 6:30, meeting at 7:00.

Our topic will be a bit different this month as we will be watching the Cheese Nun documentary. Here is a brief news item about the Cheese Nun: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cheese-nun/ .

This thrilling documentary tells the story of a Benedictine nun who finds her passion in making cheese and earns a doctorate in microbiology along the way.

Mother Noella Marcellino has a wonderful story and we want to share it with the club.

Bring your popcorn, bring cheese, bring your habit.

We’ll be meeting in the back warehouse at AleSmith instead of our normal barrel room.
To get there go to the right of bar when you walk in, past the museum and through the doors.
Follow around to the left and you’ll find us. This is where we started meeting years ago.

Bring your chair, coat, and movie munchies. There might also be an outside door open to the right of the grain silos.

Queso Diego October Meeting Announcement

Please join us for a great meeting this month:

Queso Diego October Meeting
“Celebration of Cakes Made from Cheese”
Tuesday, October 19th at 6:30 PM

The Barrel Room
AleSmith Brewing Co.
9990 Alesmith Court
San Diego, CA 92126

Greetings Queso Diego,

To kick off our celebration of cakes made from cheese, we are asking guests to share a cheesecake during the potluck portion of the meeting. Remember, cheesecakes can be sweet or savory so maybe we can make this a meal. Of course, we wouldn’t want to eat only cheesecake for our meal, would we? So, if you don’t want to make a cheesecake, please feel free to contribute a dish to round out our meal.

Following the potluck, at 7 PM will proceed with the usual club business followed by a presentation on “Cheese Celebration Cakes” by Curt Wittenberg. These are cakes that are actually constructed from cheese. We will discuss design considerations, decoration ideas, serving and, somehow, we will work in opportunities to taste more cheese. And, of course, members who bring cheesecakes will also have an opportunity to talk about their contribution.

Regarding the noise:
I’m sure everyone is aware that the back room can be a bit noisy. They have so much beer to can that they’ve been running 24/7. Peter is aware of the noise.
They are in the process of getting a faster canning line that will be installed a little further away. This should hopefully be done within the next couple of months.
Thanks for putting up with this but it will get better.

Queso Diego October Meeting Announcement

Gianaclis Caldwell

Be sure to join us for our October meeting. This will be a special meeting as we’ll have a Skype presentation with Gianaclis Caldwell.

Please RSVP to: https://forms.gle/Xw8BNYUkNj4cTgMTA

From Curt’s notice:

“…we will have cheesemaker, goat farmer and author Gianaclis Caldwell as our virtual guest for a presentation on the challenges of amateur cheesemaking and how to beat them followed by the opportunity to pose your questions to one of our most cherished cheesemaking educators.

This is a special opportunity for those of you interested in goat husbandry, amateur and professional cheesemaking and related topics to an expert who’s goal is to share her knowledge with others. What did you always want to know about cheesemaking? Do you have a question you have posed at Bix’s Corner that stumped everyone? Have you always wondered how to preserve your goat milk, how to choose a starter culture or which type of rennet is best for a particular cheese? Bring your questions to the meeting or, better yet, send them to me and I will call on you to ask it at the meeting. Too shy to pose your question? I will pose it for you!”

The meeting order will be a bit different, with the presentation right at the beginning and then the normal club business.

As usual, Social half-hour starts at 6:30 with the general meeting starting at 7. Please consider bringing a tasty treat to share.

Bring a friend and a chair. It may be getting a little cooler this month so consider bringing a coat.

The meeting is in the Barrel Room, where it has been for a while. Go down the hallway between the bar and the store and through the doors at the end of the hall.

See you on Tuesday.

Queso Diego October Meeting Announcement

October is American Cheese Month and we thought it would be fun to present a selection of
award winning cheeses from Central Coast Creamery in Paso Robles. Cheeesemaker
Reggie Jones took home four first place ribbons at this year’s American Cheese Conference,
and Jenny Eastwood from Smallgoods will present those winners, and fill you in on the state
of American Cheese. We are also trying to arrange a surprise guest – so stand by and make
sure to come celebrate American Cheese Month at our meeting on October 16th!

Please RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScup6KsGERY5_jHLYTVDmRVHpVDFOdlyZ_dNqx2l4HwcoE6bg/viewform

Queso Diego October Meeting Announcement

The October meeting of Queso Diego will feature a presentation by Curt Wittenberg entitled “Animals Make Milk, Microbes Make Cheese”. We will learn how bacteria, molds and yeast help us make our cheese and why understanding their roles can help us improve our cheesemaking. Along the way we will get some insight into how scientists are using cheese to understand how these microbes do their job and what that can tell us about the world around us.

Queso Diego October Meeting
Tuesday, October 18 @ 6:30PM
AleSmith Brewery
9990 AleSmith Court
San Diego, CA 92126

Please RSVP using this form as soon as possible so that we can get an accurate head count:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf3YURJBBIx86xOcyn64JubR0ieJnEsORh1AQAacHFxGbjdQ/viewform