Brew Haven Monthly Meeting Minutes 3/27/19
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Meeting Agenda/Minutes
3/27/19
No Worries Brewing Company
2520 State St, Hamden, CT 06517
7:00pm-9:00pm
Business:
- Welcome New Members
- Monthly Style: Bitter European Beers
- Kolsch, German Pils, Vienna Lager, Altbier
- Joe B brought a pilsner that used Fuggles which elicited a few gasps and I think someone fainted. By all accounts it was delicious. Correction- Joe went home and realized he used tettnanger (don’t skin him alive!)
- Website Articles & Content (Joe)
- Leadership committee will be publishing website content once a month to the website. Feedback is welcome.
- If you have something you’d like to write about that’s beer or Brew Haven related, send your article in to the BrewHavenCT@gmail.com.
- Articles are needed for August or later so plenty of time to draft something up!
- HomeBrewCon ‘19 Providence – Club Planning (Pat)
- Club will participate in Club night! Committee is working on booth design to be revealed later.
- Survey will go out later as well to know who’s coming and for what dates and times to help coordinate everyone.
- BH Swag pack for purchase is being put together. Will include a BH work shirt, bag, and other goodies. Will be an all or nothing purchase and only available to those going to HBC 2019. pricing to follow.
- If you’d like to register a beer to be served at club night or social, follow the link below for instructions
- Sign up
- AHA Big Brew Day – May 4, 2019. Recipes to be announced. Do we want to do an event?
- Pierre offered to host a a day on his 20gal system
- Reach out if anyone else is interested in hosting as multiple sites are an option.
Competitions:
- Recent Winners:
- Matt Knight
- Krzysztof Lasocki
- CT Brew Club Competition
- Results, comments
- Bad Sons Brewer’s Ball
- Saturday April 27th
- Charter Oak Wort Share
- Friday April 12 7:00pm
- South Shore Brewoff
- Mansfield, MA
- Entry deadline is Friday, April 5th, 2019 at 4 pm.
- Judging date is Saturday, April 20th, 2019 starting at 8:30 am.
- See website for more details
- Register
- Stormville Airport’s 2nd Annual
- Stormville/Poughkeepsie NY
- Hosted by Hudson Valley Home Brewers
- Entries accepts between 3/1 and 4/30
- Judging on June 30th at Stormville Airports Food Truck and Craft Beer festival
- Register
Club Events:
- Homebrew Days
- Using the AHA Big Brew Day as a launching point, the club would like to encourage members to get together and Brew more often!
- If your interested in hosting a Homebrew day Meetup where you Brew reach out to BrewHavenCT@gmail.com
- Westville Artwalk
- May 10th
- Reach out to Andy or Mike for more details. Looking to get head counts sooner than later for the event organizers
- Ice will be provided.
Planning Committees:
- Homebrew Con ’19 Providence, RI June 27-29
Next Meeting
- Next meeting will be on April 17th at
Counter Weight Brewing Co
23 Raccio Park Rd, Hamden, CT 06514
- Monthly Style: Trappist Ales
- Brush up on your BJCP style guidelines before the meeting so we can have a fun and educational conversation
Have a topic you’d like to discuss next meeting? Got an idea for an event? Let us know ahead of time so we can get it added to the agenda! Contact BrewHavenCT@gmail.com
Monthly Style: Bitter European Beers
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