| |
Carolina Brewmasters Club
Meeting
September 28, 2005
President
·
The next meeting will be held at the Mellow Mushroom
on North Davidson Street at 6:30 on Wednesday November 2
·
Again, even with
Oktoberfest staring us in the face, a significant number of brewers
continued brewing!
·
It’s almost election
time!! Please consider submitting a nominee for one of our
officer’s positions. Contact Roman Davis (xzymurgist@aol.com)
to submit a nominee. All positions are up for election; President,
VP Oktoberfest, VP Competitions, VP Recruiting, VP Social Activities
and Secretary/Treasurer
·
The Pop the Cap fund raiser was held in September at
Bruno Wichnoski’s home on Saturday September 10. The Belgian beer
tasting raised more than $800.00 for PTC!
·
Information was circulated to the women brewers on the
club roster related to the Queen of Beer Women’s Homebrew
Competition being held on October 22 at the Northern California
Homebrewers Festival. Entries need to be received by October 9.
Details can be found at
http://www.hazeclub.org/QOB/QOB.html.
·
Creative Loafing ran a story written on the Carolina
Brewmasters. A few members were interviewed lately for their input.
Thanks to Jason Teeter for allowing the photographer to attend his
brew session. The story can be found at
http://clnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050928/CHATALK06/509280385/-1/CHA.
I also provided input to 2 journalism students at UNCC who were
writing articles on the Oktoberfest
·
Upcoming beer events: The world Beer Festival in
Durham (October 8) and the Asheville Brewgrass Festival (October 22)
Competitions
- The MALT competition was held on Saturday
September 24. They had about 325 entries (significantly down
from the 450+ last year). Thanks to the 5 CBM members that
attended. If we’re going to expect judges and stewards to make
the trip from out of town to assist in the US Open, we’re going
to have to show more support to other competitions
- Winners were Kevin Deaton (1st
place Belgian Golden, 2nd place Dunkelweizen), Tom
Henderson (2nd place Imperial IPA), Charles Scheffer
(1st place English Special Bitter; his first brew!!)
and Bill Lynch (1st place Wee Heavy, 1st
place Heather Ale, 3rd place Imperial IPA, 3rd
place Coffee Stout)
- Big winners were the Chicken City Ale
Raisers of Gainesville, GA, MALT, DEA and Palmetto State
Brewers. The CBOY standings will be posted shortly
- Next CBOY events are TRUB in Durham on
October 29th and Palmetto State Brewers on December
3rd
- Todd Bowman will recap the current CBOY
standings
- Reminder: The schedule for 2005 AHA Club
Only Competitions is:
- September/October – European Amber
Lager – Category 3
- November/December – Baltic Porter –
Category 12C
- January 2006 – Belgian Strong Ale –
Category 18
Recruiting
- We welcomed two new or prospective members
to the meeting
- Sara Siedel did an excellent job of
organizing volunteers for the Oktoberfest. We have more than
200!
Education
- BJCP study sessions. Session 9 is
scheduled for October 19th ; German Wheat and Rye
beers as well as Strong Ales will be covered; attendees, don’t
forget your reading assignments
- Club will subsidize any exam takers
whether first timers or judges looking to move up in the ranks
- We are looking for volunteers to hold brew
sessions at their homes from October to the end of the year
Social Events
- This year’s holiday party will be held at
Bruno Wichnoski’s home on Saturday December 10
Oktoberfest/Treasurer
- The 2005 Oktoberfest committee met on
Monday evening to finalize a lot of the details related to the
fest.
- Report from the Event Site Committee
- Report from the Brewers Support Committee
- Report from the Promotions Committee
- Report from the Food Committee
- Report from the Hospitality Committee
- Report from the Visual Design Committee
- Report from the Webmaster
|
|
