Club Updates & November Meeting
Hello Brew Bombers!
A bunch of updates for you all. As usual I’ll try to keep things to the point.
CMBTC Competition Winner
Congratulations to Chuck Mackenzie for winning the CMBTC competition. Sherwin and Aaron really loved his American Porter “The Night Porter”. The main prize is a brew day on the CMBTC brewing system using his recipe, and the beer will be served at the CMBTC Christmas Open House. Thanks again to everyone who participated!
Pro/Am Brew Challenge Registration is OPEN!
If you have any homebrew ready, you’re highly encouraged to enter. Even if you don’t think it’s a particularly good brew, enter it anyway! You’ll still get valuable feedback from BJCP certified judges. All details found at https://beerawardsplatform.com/2024-pro-am-brew-challenge.
Judging is November 2-5. If you’d like to volunteer as a steward or a judge, even for just a day, please reach out! This is the 10th Pro/Am, so let’s make it a great one!
Tap Handles
You have one more week to pre-order your tap handles. Click Here to place your order before October 15th. We currently have 16 pre-orders, but we need to hit 25 to make sure we get our discount. It might be a while before we do this again so don’t miss your chance!
Creative Competition
We’re still working on finalizing the location for the creative competition, but you should start planning your brews now as judging will be happening during the January meeting.
This year’s creative competition is all Spice, Herb, Vegetable Beers. Since the style is inherently creative we’ve decided not to have rules around dollar/spend limits and no restrictions on where you shop. Just make sure you understand and follow the BJCP style guide – have a base style and provide a description of added SHV. If you have debatable ingredients, be prepared to defend them (i.e.: you used a fruit, but there are more dominant spices).
Club Kit
The votes are in and this year’s club kit will be a German Weissbier! If you have a recipe you’d like to share as a starting point, please let me know. Steve will be hosting the rest of the exec to do a test brew at his place in a couple of weeks.
Once we have done a test batch and make final decisions on the recipe we’ll place our order. If all goes well we hope to have the kits ready for pickup shortly after the holidays.
November Meeting
Our next meeting is on Tuesday November 5th at Oxus. Since we have the Pro/Am permit, If you have some homebrew you think is great and you want to share, or if you’re just looking to get feedback and advice from others, plan to bring some samples! The meeting will be all about “evaluating homebrew” so we’ll be going through the five main areas of assessment found on typical judge scoresheets: appearance, aroma, flavor, mouthfeel, and general impressions.
Cheers!
Dan Molinski