FeBREWary 2020 Meeting Notes – Sunday 02/16/2020
Thanks to Southern Hills Homebrew Supply For Hosting!
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- Always a good time with Robb & Jenn! Thank you!
- Next Meeting: James & Joan Brown’s Home – SUN 03/15/20
- Near Oak Grove Plaza, neighborhood behind McDonald’s
- Irish Extra Stout competition!
- 2020 Meeting Locations:
- All months booked except November
- Possible hosting offered by Parkway.
- Chris Rill to reach out.
- 2020 Style Presentations: Asking for volunteers
- 10A German Weissbier (Q2), Rudy Lyon & Matt Klumpp
- 14B Scotch Heavy (Q3), Ken S-K
- 17C Wee Heavy (Q4), Brian Rorrer
- Treasurer’s Report?- Mike U.
- 88 Paid members, 6 comped members
- $7429 in bank
- Throwdown 2020 Committee Update – Ken S-K
- Judge training session for Throwdown and our own quarterly comp
- 13 members attending
- Hope to have off-flavor training soon
- Entries almost full, 10 spots left
- Please remember to PAY for your entries
- Looking for volunteer for food coordination during the event
- Just needs to pick it up and setup/tear down, food is already donated
- Looking for volunteer to do prize coordination
- Just make sure that prizes get handed out to right people and don’t get lifted
- Competition Updates – Steve Lusk
- Throwdown! Get your entries in and PAY for them.
- Need stewards. Please reach out to Steve to volunteer.
- Newsletter on website.
- Coordinating anyone who got accepted in Philly, Feb 25th
- Member of the Year Committee (Carrie, Steve, Adam)
- Step 1. Get a slip of paper, write a nomination, be VERY specific
- Step 2. Put it in the box
- You can nominate anyone, including yourself
- Still need to work out prize structure, this is a good way to get your input in.
- Frankenyeast Project – Robb B.
- A huge starter of expired yeasts
- 4th iteration of Frankenyeast
- English/European clean yeasts, no odd flavors (saison, etc)
- 62 packs of yeast in a 5 gallon starter
- Packed in 50ml vials, FREE if you’d like to try one (65 vials total)
- Past batches written about, Brulosophy, elsewhere
- Only requirement, send updates about your beer to Robb ( or better, drop some off! )
- Absolutely no guarantees.
- Would be great to bring samples to Big Brew
- Will probably NEVER get clear beer, even with irish moss/gelatin
- New Work Shirt Order: Work Shirts, T-shirts, Hats
- Open to other clothing, especially t-shirts and hats
- Will get pricing and see what minimum orders are
- 50/50 Raffle – Harry
- $117 total, $58.50 to winner Adam K
- Google Nest Mini consolation – Ken S-K
- Foothills Hefe tap handle consolation – Mike U
- Fermentis t-shirt consolation – Dennis Stevens
- GABF t-shirt consolation – Eric Shelton
- Open Floor
- Chris and Dennis S have booked hotel for National Homebrew Con
- First time that hotel can house every attendee
- Grand Oprey resort hotel
- Chris and Dennis willing to transport Big Willy + kegs for club night
- Consider setting aside your Scottish heavy for Highland Games
- Thursday @ 3 Notched, pack the pub for Justin & Carrie elderberry beer
- Last weekend of March, 5 year anniversary event for Southern Hills
- Please come out, volunteer
- Guild to help cover expense for brewing up a batch of beer specific for an event
- Half the cost for brewing (up to $30).
- Must reserve the beer for the event, keep leftovers.
- Highland Games coming up in August
- Really appreciated what we did last year!!
- Attendance: 34
