Our minutes from the August meeting are below.

• • 6:30 – 7:00 – Social Hour
    • have a beer while everyone arrives!!
  • 7:00 – 7:00 – Brewers Corner – Skipping for Broken Hydrometer Judging
  • Broken Hydro – club comp with themed beers
                    Winner at BH gets beer showcased at booth at NCHF
                    This year is camping theme; there was a wheel of fortune
                    John went over the judging rules

 

• 7:00 – 7:15 – General Business

 

• • • Welcome Everyone – greet visitors and new members
    • Recap from July
      • NonProfit Adventures – it is a slog but I know what we need to do now.  By the end of August we should be officially incorporated as a nonprofit social club, which is not the conclusion but the start of a bunch of other things we need to do.  But it’s happening!
      • Awesome Food & Beer Pairing!
    • Coming Up Soon
      • September Meeting = Return of I’d tap that & NCHF Planning
      • October Meeting = SWAP MEET
      • November Meeting = Holiday Party Planning & New President!

 

• 7:15-7:30

 

• • Diversity Track Status – Toni & Lisa
  •                 Had second Women and Beer mtg last week – 70 people signed up for emails                Lisa came up with good bingo game                Then invite participants to regular WoW meetings after they are more comfortable
  • Excellent work!
  •                 Have two more meetings planned – Sep and Oct
  •                 Had 3 repeat people the second time, 5 new ones

 

• 7:30-7:30

 

• • • • Education Track – Dwight
        • Skipping for  I’d tap that

 

• 7:30-7:45

 

• • • • Beer of the Month – Alvaro: Marzen
      • Alvaro gave a great presentation and we sampled Gordon Biersch Marzen and Keith Kost’s homebrewed Marzen
      •                 Next month is a style from the horn of Africa called suwa or telle                Woman that runs an Eritrean store sold him the authentic ingredients
      •                 Includes honey and other stuff

 

• 7:45-8:00

 

• • • Competition Report – Jon Kissinger
      • Chili Cookoff
        • Updated Website Info
        • Entries to date!
        • Judging on Saturday! – bottles; keg comp is August 26

                Jon Kissinger gave an update

                Entries received, assigned to flights, bottle comp is next Saturday at the 21A in San Leandro, could use stewards

                                There may be SM County FF pins for judges/stewards

                10 keg comp entrants at this time, there is room for more, email Jon Kissinger if you still want to get a keg in

                Keg comp is people’s choice on the day of the chili cookoff

                Winner of keg comp gets the firefighter’s hat

                BOS – MoreBeer gift cert

                                BSG and Gordon Biersch may provide prizes

• • • • •              BOS for the bottle competition will be at the chili cookoff on August 26   54 bottle entries, 10 kegs

 

• 8:00 – 8:15

 

• • Event Report – Jim Schmalzried
    • NCHF:
      • Who is going? (Raise your hands)
      • Booth Food is covered (thanks Scott A.!)
      • Volunteers for the NCHF Committee – weekly meetings for planning
      • Beer and tap situation
        • Dave is coming!
        • Separate cobra taps for anything “funky”
        • Need a sign with lights that can be read after dark
      • Booth setup and decorations?
        • Do we want to pull off a camp theme?  This topic always gets glossed over at meetings.  Need to decide ASAP so we can attempt to pull something together.  
      • Campsite setup:
        • We reserved several campsites (thanks all!) for the night before, so we should have a nice area for WoW to cram into and setup basecamp
        • Potluck again for Friday evening? Seems to work out nicely. We’ll have signup sheet available soon.

 

 

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• Broken Hydro
• Winners are:
  First place: Pine Marzen – Will and Owen
  Second Place – Whiskey barrel dark sour – Keith Kost
  Third Place – Lemon Rosemary Saison – Jim S

  Thanks to all for participating!  It was fun as always.