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The Carolina Brewmasters again would like to
thank the staff at Rock Bottom for their hospitality and excellent
service. We will be back!!
President
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PTC news – The cap has been
popped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep tuned for anything from PTC related
to the governor signing (or ignoring) the bill. Please make note
of the senators that voted for the bill and thank them; please make
note of those that don’t and insure that you don’t vote for them
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Showing the true diversity of the club, one of our
members, John Oshman, was actually at the senate roll call in
Raleigh when the bill was passed; he provided us with his impression
of the process.
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IMPORTANT INFO on the next two monthly meetings.
The September meeting will be held on Wednesday August 31; the
October meeting will be held on Wednesday September 28. Both
meetings will be held at the Mellow Mushroom on North Davison Street
and were move so we could have sufficient meeting time before the
Oktoberfest.
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Is brewing during the
summer dead? Not according to the significant number of beers that
members said they brewed throughout July!
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The Pop the Cap fund raiser to be held in September at
Bruno Wichnoski’s home on Saturday. It will be a Belgian beer
tasting and we will be charging $20 per person to attend. We will
also be holding a silent auction which will consist of some very
fine beers. The club will provide the meat (Bruno’s smoked pork
butts) and side dishes are welcomed. We are limiting the attendance
to 40 people. Contact Todd Bowman to provide any beers for either
the tasting or the raffle as well as any beer related items you’d
wish to donate to the raffle.
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The Palmetto State Brewers are planning an all day
trip to Asheville to visit 4 breweries on August 27; they have
invited any CBM member that would be interested to join them;
contact Gary Cathey for more information.
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Gary Cathey will be celebrating National Mead Day in
style by holding a mead brew session. This will be a really great
event with various varieties of honey to be tasted, beekeepers will
be on hand, commercial and homebrewed meads will be available for
tasting, all will have an opportunity to purchase ingredients to
make a batch of mead (all using a different yeast strain!) and
homemade brats for lunch. The website has complete details.
Recruiting
- Welcome new members! We welcomed 5
new/perspective members/guests.
- Sara Siedel again asked for volunteers to
sign up; by meetings end we had commitments from more than 100
people!
Education
- Bill Lynch held a brew session on Saturday
July 9th. He brewed one all grain (an imperial IPA)
and two extract brews (American wheat and an IPA). The IIPA
was bottled on Saturday; the IPA kegged on Saturday and the
American wheat was racked on to 8 lbs. of fresh peaches awaiting
racking to a tertiary fermentation.
- BJCP study sessions. The fourth study
session was held on June 8; the fifth study session is scheduled
for July 20; attendees, don’t forget your reading assignments.
- Club will subsidize any exam takers
whether first timers or judges looking to move up in the ranks.
- We are looking for volunteers to hold brew
sessions at their homes from August to the end of the year.
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Competitions
- Next competition is MALT in Asheville on
September 24; we need entries to keep our lead! They will offer
on line registration and we will advise when it’s active. We
would like to have a strong presence (attendance-wise) in
Asheville since it is such a huge competition (450+ entries
expected).
- Keep in mind, the MALT competition will
permit entries the day of the competition ONLY by judges that
arrive that day; more info on this later; likely some members
will drive up the night before to deliver entries.
- CBM currently leads in the CBOY brewclub
of the year 104-78 over the Palmetto State Brewers; they are
energized and looking to kick our butts!! DEA is in 3rd
place with 49 points.
- CBOY is seriously interested in hosting
the AHA southern regional competition but it would require
changing the date of the US Open; Todd Bowman, the CBM CBOY
representative, spoke briefly outlining the proposal. A hand
vote indicated overwhelming support for the idea.
- Reminder: The schedule for 2005 AHA Club
Only Competitions is:
- August – French and Belgian Ales –
Category 16
- September/October – European Amber
Lager – Category 3
- November/December – Baltic Porter –
Category 12C
Social Events
- Tony Profera will be accepting Paypal
payments for attendance at the Belgian beer tasting PTC benefit
being held in September. Complete details are on the website.
- We are planning a club sponsored trip to a
Charlotte Knights game on Friday August 26. We will need an
email to confirm your attendance. This will imply that you are
going and a ticket will be purchased for you; if you don’t go,
you eat the cost of the ticket. Bill Lynch will notify members
shortly.
Oktoberfest/Treasurer
- The 2005 Oktoberfest will take place on
Saturday October 1. It will be held at the same site as last
year and we will be incorporating a series of changes to the
event as suggested at the committee’s post-fest meeting.
- Felton gave a rundown of the progress that
has been made to date which is significant. Food vendors have
been selected, we have received commitment from Cabot Cheese to
provide 250 lbs. of assorted cheeses.
- Brewers Support Committee – we currently
have commitments from 16 micros, only 3 short of last year’s
total. We should easily break 20 with 25 not out of the
question.
- Ale Clayson has requested that we supply
him with a number of Oktoberfest flyers and $5.00 off coupons
that he can include in outgoing orders. We will supply them to
Jess also.
- We are also going to post a copy of the
coupon on the various websites which people can cut out and use.
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