- A huge Thank You to Chaos Mountain for hosting!
- Next Meeting
- Tentatively at Blue Ridge Hydroponics either January 19th or 20th
- I will send out an email as soon as we have an answer
- Backup plan is for Harry to host this meeting.
- Treasurer’s Report
- $4573.91
- 138 paid members coming into year’s end
- Competition Updates
- She Brew in Oregon- If any of our ladies have any entries Steve will do his best to get them shipped out there.
- Throwdown! This is the big one in March. Registration will be open in January.
- Throwdown Updates
- No Updates at this time
- Grovelers need to grovel.
- Meeting Locations 2019
- January: Blue Ridge Hydroponics (Tentative) (Dunkels Weissbier Presentation)
- February: Rudy & Diane (Belgian Dark Strong Presentation?)
- March: James & Joan Brown (Dunkels Weissbier Competition)
- April: Chris & Robyn Stevens (Fruit Beer Presentation?)
- May: Southern Hills Homebrew Supply (Big Brew)
- June: Adam & Marcie Kendall (Fruit Beer Competition)
- July: Hammer and Forge (Strong Bitter Presentation?)
- August: Open
- September: Harry & Lynn (Strong Bitter Competition)
- October: Carrie & Justin Cox
- November: Brian & Vanessa Rorrer
- December: Chaos Mountain (Belgian Dark Strong Competition)
- Iron Brewer
- Our Iron Brewers got together to try and come up with a consensus on who used the ingredient best.
- They decided it was a push and the $10 gift card to Southern Hills would be raffled off.
- Congrats, Iron Brewers on creating amazing beers with non-traditional ingredients.
- Thanks to Takumi for the great idea and making it happen.
- Competition Results
- We had 13 entries for the Imperial Stout Competition Results are as follows:
- 3rd Place- Mike Czernicki
- 2nd Place- Carrie and Justin Cox
- 1st Place- Ken and Jen Sharp-Knott
- Raffles
- Paul Mahoney won the Judge/Steward Raffle for a $40 gift card to Southern Hills
- John Merkwan won the Entry Raffle for a beer-stained $40 gift card to Blue Ridge Hydroponics
- Brewer of the Year
- Carrie and Justin Cox won Brewer of the Year with 142 points. That’s an average of 35.5 points per competition. Great job!
- Andy Pascarella was a close 2nd with 137 points
- Steve Lusk was right behind in 3rd overall with 136 points
- Election Results
- Board of Directors (1 year term to finish the vacated seat): Harry Montoro
- Vice President by default: Adam Kendall
- President: Chris Gray
- The Board of Directors now welcomes Allen F. to a 3 year term per the bylaws to join Rudy L. (2 years remaining) and Harry M. (1 Year)
- 50/50
- $181.00 collected
- Scotty Anderson won $90.50! Congrats, Scotty!
- Open Floor
- The guild joined in song and cheered for Rudy’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Rudy!
- Dirty Santa Exchange
- We had 20 participants in the Dirty Santa exchange. The Collective Arts Bourbon Barrel Imperial Porter was a very popular gift. Consequently, Barrel Chest was out on Sunday.
- Matt and Rachel Klumpp wound up with the most interesting gift- Budweiser Copper Lager in collaboration with Jim Beam in a very fancy wooden box.
- Thanks to everyone who participated this year!
- From Allen
- It’s been an honor serving as president this year. We’ve had many successful events and I hope we continue to move forward and grow even more next year. The craft beer scene is evolving and so too is the guild. As a board member I will continue to be growth and innovation focused. I will make it a point this coming year to reach out and grow our industry membership in order to open the door to more opportunities. I am confident that our new leader, Chris Gray, will bring some exciting ideas to the table in 2019.
- We had 13 entries for the Imperial Stout Competition Results are as follows: