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Carolina Brewmasters Club
Meeting
August 31, 2005
President
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The next meeting will be held at the Mellow Mushroom
on North Davidson Street at 6:30 on Wednesday September 28; a mere
three days before the Oktoberfest
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Again the meeting was attended by Bill Marren of the
Gambrinus Company and a representative from Cunningham Distributing
who introduced Bridgeport IPA and Blackstrap Stout to the group.
Both are new to the Charlotte market and samples along with pint
glasses were available to members
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Apparently our extremely
hot August didn’t deter many members from brewing as was evidenced
from the monthly polling
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The Pop the Cap fund raiser to be held in September at
Bruno Wichnoski’s home on Saturday. It will be a Belgian beer
tasting and we will be charging $20 per person to attend. We will
also be holding a silent auction which will consist of some very
fine beers. The club will provide the meat (Bruno’s smoked pork
butts) and side dishes are welcomed. We are limiting the attendance
to 40 people. Todd Bowman was nice enough to send a list of the
beers and it will be one hell of an event!!
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The Palmetto State Brewers conducted a brewery tour of
Asheville last Saturday. A few CBM club members were in
attendance. Everyone who attended had a great time with the star of
the day to be Carl Melissa’s Belgian Strong (Green Man Brewing)
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Gary Cathey celebrated National Mead Day in style by
holding a mead brew session. About 18 members signed up to do a
three gallon batch using different yeasts. There were commercial
meads, homemade meads, a variety of honey to be tasted, a
presentation by Steve Paynter on beekeeping and a selection of great
food including Gary Kunes’ homemade brats.
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A small but enthusiastic group of Brewmasters attended
the Charlotte Knights game on Friday August 26. They were treated
to Bill Lynch’s IPA, Karl Keyes’ Rye IPA and a few Flying Dog high
gravity beers brought by Justin Mitchell. The Knights actually won
the game on a night on which the weather was perfect for baseball
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Upcoming beer events: The world Beer Festival in
Durham (October 8) and the Asheville Brewgrass Festival (October 22)
Recruiting
- Sara Siedel is organizing the volunteer
list for Oktoberfest. A sign up sheet was passed around for
those who have yet to sign up. Looks like we’ll have more than
enough volunteers
Education
- BJCP study sessions. Session 8 is
scheduled for September 21; stouts 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 September to the end of the year
- Lee Eskridge has volunteered to hold a
brew session at his home on Saturday September 17. Details and
directions are available on the website
Competitions
- Next competition is MALT in Asheville on
September 24; we need entries to keep our lead! They will offer
on line registration and we will advise when it’s active. We
would like to have a strong presence (attendance-wise) in
Asheville since it is such a huge competition (450+ entries
expected)
- Keep in mind, the MALT competition will
permit entries the day of the competition ONLY by judges that
arrive that day; all other entries need to be in by September
10. We will likely have someone drive up with any non-judges
entries
- CBM currently leads in the CBOY brewclub
of the year 104-78 over the Palmetto State Brewers; they are
energized and looking to kick our butts!! DEA is in 3rd
place with 49 points
- 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
Social Events
- The last tickets to the PTC Belgian beer
tasting have been sold. It should be a great day of tasting
some of the world’s finest beers
Oktoberfest/Treasurer
- The 2005 Oktoberfest will take place on
Saturday October 1. It will be held at the same site as last
year and we will be incorporating a series of changes to the
event as suggested at the committee ’s post-fest meeting.
- Report from the Event Site Committee –
Initial set up is scheduled for Saturday September 17 at 8:00
am. The almost final site layout was shown
- Report from the Brewers Support Committee
– Currently 116 beers from distributors and national breweries,
76 beers from 22 southeastern microbreweries and approximately
20 kegs of homebrew. More to come!
- Report from the Promotions Committee –
David Jones passed out promotional materials and gave a
presentation on how members can more effectively distribute the
material
- Report from the Food Committee – Food
vendors have been chosen
- Report from the Hospitality Committee –
Jason Randall mentioned the details related to the hotel and
spoke about the need for members to play up the pre-event being
held at the Hilton
- Report from the Visual Design Committee –
Report was given on advertising progress to date
- Report from the Webmaster – The website is
up to date as of today including the brewery info
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