Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Did anyone volunteer to host the March meeting? And are we having it on the normal day? (The 3rd Thursday happens to be Maundy Thursday this year, which could be a conflict for some people.)

-Jim

I will be hosting the meeting on Thursday March 20th starting around 7:00pm. More details to follow.

Dave

All:

I will be hosting this months CR Beer Nuts Meeting on March 20th at 7:00pm. My home is located at:

3370 Jonquil Ln
Marion, IA 52302

Here is a link to google map showing where it is at: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g ... iwloc=addr

Here is what we are hoping to cover at this months meeting:


Club competitions
Website redesign - we need to get this done so we can post meeting minutes, have new events on front etc.
Name who the hosts for the next few months are
New club shirt order - who wants shirts
Plan a trip to a brewery as a club (pub city maybe) How we are going to get there. Who can drive
Ideas for what we can do with club funds - no one has posted any ideas.
Upcoming events - do you know of any?
Since Third base has a party room, do we want to try and create our own open brew competition...similar to Thirsty's maybe get an AHA sactioned event.

Here is another idea, we could see if there is any interest in learning how to judge beer.
Buy commercial beer with club funds, find an expert judge who has reviewed it previously, have everyone judge it for themselves then compare to the judges.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thanks

David Coughlin

I'll be there. Thanks for hosting Dave.

Is there a specific style this month? I can't remember if we named a style last month or not. Red Ales, or Irish Ales might be appropriate. Anyone else have any ideas?

Very rough March 2008 Meeting Notes

• Website redesign – who can do it, what to change?
o Need to add a home page – with user friendly (next meeting, member outing). Jim Potts will create a demo.
o Add post about website changes. Invite discussion about changes.
• Use of Club Funds
Club buy calibration beer for judging each month?
• Decided that club funds will be used to do this.
• Sierra Nevada IPA and (yet be determined) will used for May. 3 bottles of each.
• Larry will print out BJCP guide lines
• Dues:
o Charter bus: To Madison(Matt will check with Teresa at Millstream and Aegon bus to see how much it will cost).
o Brian and I will also check on this.
• Bring Bad beer. Guess why it is bad?
• Post how we want to spend our club funds.
• Iowa fest beer: What are we going to make?
o Need to assign styles that members will brew?
o Make iron on t-shirts(Brian A will check on this ).
• David Coughlin($40) and Jim Potts($20 – domain costs.)
• Club Competitions: Larry will print out BJCP guide lines
April – Pale Ale
June – Wheat Beers
November – Spiced Beers
• Meeting hosts for the next few months
April – Matt
May – Mark
June – Larry
July - Pete
Aug – Tony
Sept - Jeremy
• Upcoming Events:August Fireworks (Tom Burns will check on this.)
• Madison Brewfest (send teresa an email).
• Brewery Trip? Post a sign up on the website June Saturday til Sunday morning. Dark Lord in April 26th (http://www.threefloyds.com/events.html ) or Madison trip. Add a poll for both events to see what we want bring.
• Make the meetings pot luck to make hosting easier? Add a post for the next meeting to sign up to bring food.