Brew Haven Homebrew Club

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.
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Planning Committees:

• Homebrew Con ’19 Providence, RI June 27-29

Next Meeting

• Next meeting will be on April 17^th 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