| Date | Event |
| August 9 | The HOPS Mid-Summer Wet Weiss Dream will be held this year in the wilds of New Jersey. Bring the bug spray. Stay tuned for more details. |
| August 14/15 | HOPS Camping - There are still limited spaces available for the HOPS Annual Camping Trip to Dingman's Ferry, August 14 & 15th. Contact Laura for info and reservations. |
| August 18 | August's HOPS Night Out - at Zorba's in Fairmount for some excellent Greek food, at the popular price of $20 per person. |
| August 19 | Monthly HOPS meeting - at HomeSweet Homebrew . We are making plans for HOPS-BOPS 1998. It will probably be a 'transitional' competition, leading to the moving of HOPS-BOPS to the spring for 1999. |
| August 31 | August 31st-September 2 Thunder - Tentative plans for a group excursion to see the Reading Phillies play the Trenton Thunder in Trenton, during the Thunder's last homestand. Cheap baseball and a brewpub nearby! |
