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The new year has arrived so time to brew a new batch of Homebrew ! ! !

January 2009

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The 2009 Officers are :

President - Rick Benfield
VP Oktoberfest - Justin Mitchell
VP Education - Brian Beauchemin
VP Competition - Bill Lynch
VP Social - Wes Kemmerlin
VP Recruitment - Lisa Johnson
VP Communication - Michael Shomate

For job descriptions of the above offices- click here

Click here to see how to enter a Homebrew Competition !

Welcome to the Carolina BrewMasters Website

Want info on joining the Carolina Brewmasters ?

Click here to contact VP of Recruitment with your questions !

The new year has arrived so let's make some Homebrew !

Club Christmas Party at the Discovery Place was and excellent event !

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December Meeting

Photos by Tom Henderson and Gary Cathey

The December meeting had a good crowd on hand. Rick started things out and VP of Oktoberfest, Jason Randall, talked about the great Oktoberfest and presented a check to Laurie Schwartz from A Childs Place for $25,000 and another $25,000 check to Shannon Hinson from the local chapter of The National MS Society. These are our charity gifts from the proceeds from Oktoberfest. We are so glad to help these wonderful charity's. There was a competition for Belgian and French Ales for the AHA Club Only event and David Jones came away as the winner. Elections were also held and the 2009 officers are:

President - Rick Benfield

VP of Recruitment - Lisa Johnson

VP of Competition - Bill Lynch

VP of Education - Brian Beauchemin

VP of Oktoberfest - Justin Mitchell

VP of Communication - Michael Shomate

VP of Social - Wes Kemmerlin

3rd Quarter Newsletter is now out.

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The 2009 Great Belgian Beer Tour

& Ultimate Belgian Brewery & Castle Crawl

10 Breweries, 3 Castles, Chocolates galore,

The Zythos 24 hours of Belgian Ales Festival,

The Pub without Thirst Gueze & Lambic Dinner,

3 nights Ghent and 3 nights Brussels

March 02 - 09, 2009

Click here to download the 5 page document with info on this fabulous trip !

Click here for the Registration Form to sign up for the trip

Member of the Month

New Member of the Month

Michael Shomate

Josh Hartmann

Michael got into brewing in August 2007 because he liked good microbrews and was looking for a hobby to get into. He did an internet search on brewing and found the CBM site and emailed Rick Benfield who was VP of Recruitment at the time and got info on how to join. He came to a meeting in September 2007 and joined. His favorite commercial beer is an Ommegong Abbey and his favorite style to brew is a Belgian Dubbel. Mike was elected as 2009 VP of Communication at the December meeting.

Josh started brewing in 1997 when he lived in Utah. Homebrewing was a necessity for him at that time because beer was hard to find in Utah. He then stopped brewing for a number of years but picked it back up and wants to go to all grain brewing in the near future. He has lived in Charlotte for about 8 years and found out about the club at the Oktoberfest. His wife got him a membership to the club for his Birthday. His favorite commercial beer is a Pike 5X Stout from Seattle and his favorite style to homebrew is an IPA

Welcome Josh !

Next Meeting will be

January 7th

at :

Fox and Hound

on North Tryon St.

starts at 6:30 pm

Be there !

Next Brew Session
Host: David Jones

When: January 31, 2009

Where: More to come soon !

Brew: ???

Plan to attend !

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Have you seen the Quarterly Newsletters ?

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CBM Homebrew Safety Announcement

Click here for the Rules and Regulations for the Club Only CBM Brewer of the Year Competition