Category: Website Update

NEW Jockey Box Rental Option

The club owns and maintains two jockey boxes that we’ve used at various events and festivals over the years.  They were previously only set up for Sanke kegs, but they’ve recently been re-fit with fresh beer lines and universal connections that allow easy changeover between Sanke, Ball-lock, or Pin-lock connections.

If you’re interested in renting a jockey box, you can find all the details on the Jockey Box Rentals page

Election Results

The President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Competition Coordinator positions were uncontested.  Me, Tyler, Paul, and Steve will continue in our respective roles for the 2025-2026 season.

Luke Thiessen stepped up and ran for club Secretary, and won the election held at the meeting.  Welcome to the team, Luke; we look forward to working with you.  Thank you to Ryan Gren for doing an awesome job filling the Secretary role for last year.

Club Kit Style

There were some great options discussed and we landed on Pilsner being the style for next year’s club kit.  But in a twist, it’s going to be a “Manitoba Pilsner”, with made-in-Manitoba malt and hops.

Creative Competition Theme

Continuing with the local theme, next year’s creative competition will be “local clones”.  Is there a Manitoba brew you’ve always enjoyed or thought it would be fun to try to replicate? This will be your chance!

Detailed rules and guidelines will be sorted out later, the idea is that whatever you’re cloning must be produced by a Manitoba company.  Also, this won’t be restricted to beer… ciders and meads will also be allowed!

Memberpress

After discussing the pros and cons of using memberpress on the website, the decision was made to stop using it for the 2025-2026 season.  Instead we’ll be going back to the old-school way of collecting member dues with cash, credit/debit on the Square, or e-transfer to the Treasurer in September.  We’ll manage the member list manually. Over the summer break we’ll work on disabling memberpress.  Some of you who have later renewal dates which don’t align with the start of the season may be hearing from me.

Updated Club Mission

We have updated the “About” page of the website with a mission statement for the club that more clearly outlines who we are and what we strive to achieve.

NEW Membership Terms & Conditions

We’ve spent the past year defining Membership Terms & Conditions.  This is partly an expansion of the existing Code of Conduct, but now covers things like member classes, joining/ending memberships, and includes a blanket participation waiver.

If you were at the AGM and have already reviewed and signed, then no further action is needed.  If you weren’t at the meeting and plan on continuing as a member, be prepared to sign your name at one of the first meetings next season.

If you didn’t see the web site post or the facebook post, the in person meeting RSVP form is live. You can sign up by logging into your account on the website and going to Member Area -> Member Events (same as before).

To attend you must be RSVP’d on that form.

Tonight’s meeting at Oxus (at 7pm) will primarily be a social event, so be sure to bring your home brew!

Cheers,
Sean.

Hey Everyone,

For our mailing list, we’ve hit a snag with the new provider. They only allow 50 emails per hour to be sent The extra emails get deleted and not sent. So that renders our mailing list useless as most people don’t get them.

So I’ve setup a google groups account and migrated the mailing list there… however, there’s a limit to how many new addresses you can add per day… ugh…

So tomorrow I should hopefully have the last of the members added and can start emailing everyone again.

In the meantime I’ve opened the registration for members once they log in.

Cheers,
Sean.