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Sept 2023 - Meeting Minutes

Goat Lab, Lowell

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Meeting called to order with a toast by our President Larry McCallister

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Education Piece: David Johnson - Tasty Bugs: An Intro to Sour Beers

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David did a GREAT job presenting on sours tonight! If you missed it and/or want to go through it again, you can find his presentation HERE

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Old Business:

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  • UofA Hop farm trip was cancelled. We just could not get a good date on a weekend to make this happen. Sorry folks.

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  • New Member Packet - Larry has tokens from Natural State and Goat Lab. James got stickers from New Province.

    • James will make a welcome letter that includes a QR codes for the website, facebook, and email group.

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  • Voting for our Fall Community project - It was voted that the Ale-Truism Oktoberfest Fundraiser would be the fall community project.

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  • Merch was pushed to next year

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  • Canopy replacement: The club voted last month to replace the canopy. Larry anticipates that it will arrive before the Ale-truism event.

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  • There was also a conversation about possible brewer of the year points for joining brew days.

    • Maybe stickers and an extra welcome packet for those who join these brew days.

    • The point is to incentivize more participation.

    • Officers pointed out that any changes to brewer of the year will be tabled until January. Any changes voted on at that time would take effect in February.

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Remaining Iron Brewer comps for the year:

Q3 Kolsch (October 3rd @ OZ)

Q4 English Porter (January 18th @ FLOPS)

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New Members/Visitors:

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  • Geoff Allen joined us in August and became a paid member tonight! We are so excited to have him!

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New Business:

  • Next month's educational piece: Justin Hart will be presenting Festival Season Readiness by showing us his jockey box build

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  • Potential educational pieces upcoming (Please bring your ideas to a meeting and/or consider presenting something)

    • Getting ready for festival season (Next Month)

    • How to brew an award winning Kolsch (Perhaps we can get Randy on this one?)

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Upcoming Events:

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  • NWA Oktoberfest Fundraiser - Sept 23rd

  • Girls on the Run - Oct 6th

  • Rogers Octoberfest - Oct 14th

  • Brewtoberfest - October 28th

  • Germannfest - November 4th

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Closing Minutes:

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  • Identifying beers that were brought (I forgot to get a count of the total brought)

  • Meeting Attendees: 12

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Brewer of the month results:

  1. Justin Hart - Astarte (Bronze Age Beer)

  2. Randy Germann- Imperial Tart Cherry Cider

  3. Larry McCallister- Holy Banannas (Belgian Dark Strong)

  4. (Tied for 3rd) Doc Farmer - Good Night Irene (American Brown)

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  • Equiment Share:

    • David Johnson has an extra Blichmann beer gun he would like to offload. Holla at him if you need it!

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  • Call for Feeback

    • None this time

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