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.
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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.
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Maybe stickers and an extra welcome packet for those who join these brew days.
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The point is to incentivize more participation.
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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:
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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)
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Getting ready for festival season (Next Month)
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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
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Girls on the Run - Oct 6th
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Rogers Octoberfest - Oct 14th
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Brewtoberfest - October 28th
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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)
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Meeting Attendees: 12
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Brewer of the month results:
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Justin Hart - Astarte (Bronze Age Beer)
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Randy Germann- Imperial Tart Cherry Cider
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Larry McCallister- Holy Banannas (Belgian Dark Strong)
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(Tied for 3rd) Doc Farmer - Good Night Irene (American Brown)
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Equiment Share:
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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
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None this time
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Motion to close