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Coming
up
Randy Mosher will
lead a beer tasting and sign copies of his new book, Tasting Beer,
May 19.
RSVP by Monday, noon.
Cigar Dinner and Outing in Lake
Geneva. (Description below.)
RSVP
before Wednesday, May 20.
Billy O'Hara, a.k.a. "Jack Schwarz", will lead
a discussion about cigars—how
they're made, what they're like, and how they should be smoked—over
cocktails and cigars in the Board of Trade Building, Thursday,
June 11.
Bill Daley,
Wine and Food Critic for the Chicago Tribune, will talk about
wine and smoke, June 23.
Events sponsored by the
Cigar Society of Chicago include cocktails at
5:30pm, a lecture or reading starting at 6:00 sharp for about
thirty minutes, followed by discussion. We meet privately in
the second-floor lounge of the
Iwan Ries Building
19 South Wabash.
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Tuesday, May 19, 5:30-8:30pm
Tasting
Beer with
Randy
Mosher
 For
all beer lovers who have known the pleasure of draining a pint,
Randy Mosher explores and explains the complete tasting
experience as it applies to all the wonderful brews of the
world. Hundreds of tastes can be detected in beer, from resin to
toast, and from apple to smoke. Randy will lead the Cigar
Society through a tasting of the major beer styles and
tell us how to identify them by their scents, colors, and
flavors. For the Cigar Society, Mosher will focus
on big, high-alcohol beers that have enough character to stand
up to a range of
cigars. Among the possibilities: Goose Island Matilda, Schlenkerla Rauchbier Ur-Bock Bock, Dogfish Head Palo Santo
Marron or Raison d'Etre, Green King Old Suffolk Ale, Lost Abbey
Judgment Day or Lost and Found, and an Imperial Stout.
He'll also have copies of his new book,
Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World Greatest Drink,
available for signing and sale.
Beer may be the common beverage of
the people, but it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of
history, more than 900 identified flavors, dozens of styles, and
thousands of breweries around the world, beer is as complex as
its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores.
Randy Mosher is also the author of Radical Brewing:
Recipes, Tales, and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass
and Brewers Companion: Being a Complete Compendium of Brewing
Knowledge.
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Iwan Ries Building, 19
South Wabash, Second-floor lounge.
$40 inclusive
covers the cost of the room, drinks, cigars, and snacks.
Cash only. Jacket and tie recommended;
reservations required. RSVP to the
Secretary. |
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Cigar Society of Chicago
Spring Outing to Lake Geneva, May 29-30
Join the Cigar Society for
an event-packed weekend in Lake Geneva at the end of the month (the
weekend after Memorial Day). The events are itemized below
by cost and can be attended independently, but
reservations are required. You may stay one or two nights.
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Cigar
Society of
Chicago
Cigar Dinner and Outing
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin |
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RSVP to the Secretary before May 20 |
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Friday, May 29 |
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or later |
Check in at
your hotel. Bella
Vista Suites and the
Cove are both
walking distance to the Cigar Dinner and on the lake. The Cove has suites
that can accommodate up to six people. (There are
many
other hotel options in all price ranges.) You should
make your own hotel reservation, but all other events will be
managed by the
Secretary. |
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7:00-8:00 |
Cocktail
Hour at
Celebration on Wells,
422 South Wells. (Cash bar.) |
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Cigar
Dinner. BYO Cigars. $60 (including
tax and tip!) for a 3-course dinner with red wine. (Cocktails and
special wines are extra.) BYO Cigars. Lots.
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Salad
Iceberg Wedges with Maytag Blue
Cheese Dressing
OR
Hand Tossed Caesar Salad with Lemon
Wheels and Anchovies |
Main Course
Prime Rib Roast with Morel Sauce, Twice-baked Potatoes,
Seasonal Vegetables, and dinner rolls. |
Dessert
Individual Apple-Strawberry Pies with Whipped
Cream
OR
Chocolate Confusion Cake drizzled with Ghirardelli White and
Dark Chocolate, finished with Crème Fraise
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Coffee
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After-dinner speaker. Chuck
Hannon, on a provocative topic. |
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Sat, May 30 |
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Breakfast (on your
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Tour of
Stone Manor,
the largest house on the lake, by Chuck Hannon (no charge, but
reservations are required).
Chuck has a modest apartment (6000 sq-ft) in the manor. |
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Tour of the
Richard Driehaus Estate and Gardens, by
John Nelson (no
charge, but
reservations are required).
John was the architect for the renovation of the house and
gardens. |
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Lunch at the Richard
Driehaus Mansion (lunch is on Mr. Driehaus, but reservations are required). |
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Lake boat tour
(optional, extra charge). More information to follow. |
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Golf (optional,
extra charge). More information to follow. |
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Dinner (on your
own). |
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Night Life (on your
own) |
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Sun, June 1 |
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Return to Chicago |
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About
the Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST
AND greatest traditions of the city clubs of Chicago was the discussion of intellectual, social, legal, artistic,
historical, scientific, musical, theatrical, and philosophical
issues in the company of educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the beneficent influence of
substantial amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition
and extends it with its fortnightly Informal Smokers,
monthly
University Series lectures, and quarterly Cigar Society
Dinners, in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important component of our version of
the classical
symposium. To be included in the Cigar Society's
mailing list, write to the
Secretary
at
CigarSociety@logicophilosophicus.org.
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