2018-05 (may) General Meeting Minutes

[karl]

Cedar Rapids Brewing Society
General Meeting Minutes
2018 May 17

Meeting was called to order at 8:05 pm with sixteen members plus two guests in attendance.

Old Business

Name Change and Rebranding
Paperwork to reinstate the non-profit registration status is underway.
Graphic artists has been hired and development of new graphicss is underway.

Club Competitions
April competition
Style was Dunkles Weissbier (10B)
Results: tie for 2nd/3rd: Randy Carris and Mark Jensen, 1st: Karl Hoech
Watch the club forums for details and announcements.
July - Czech Pale Lager (3A)
October - American Amber (19A)
Agreed that we will add a fifth competition for mead starting in 2019.

Wort Rally with Lion Bridge Brewing
Remaining Schedule:
Bottle dropoff: 6/1 and at May Happy Hour
Judging at Lion Bridge: 6/5-6/6
Happy Hour/People’s Choice: 6/24
Next year start planning in November/December

“Bunged” Competition
Theme for this year is no hops.
Turn-in for judging will be at the September General Meeting.
Feature and People’s Choice will be at the September Happy Hour at Lion Bridge Brewing.

Benz Festival
Good time again this year. Thanks to all that participated.

Lager Lympics
Will be held June 9, likely again at the NewBo market from noon to five o’clock
Invitations to participate should begin at the March general meeting.
Herokuapp registration page has been posted.

River’s Edge Festival
Quad CIties on July 14
Beer contributions are welcome; Herokuapp has been setup

Iowa Brewing Company ProAm Entries
Too many things necessary to get organized this year. Start earlier next year.

Linn County Fair
This is a good opportunity to get some evaluations from broader judging in each of the BJCP categories.
See the Linn County Fair website for details: http://thelinncountyfair.com

Tech Meetings
We have a number of newer brewers and many varying levels of skill/knowledge in the club. Let’s have some basic technical seminars to help brewers take the next steps. Look for these to begin late summer after the festival rush has let up.
Cleaning and Sanitation
Water chemistry (Randy)
Basic (and inexpensive) all-grain brewing (Karl)
Membership is invited to volunteer to present or request other topics of interest.

CRBS Festival
New idea this year is to have a Pro-Am craft beer theme and invite our local craft breweries to participate with us. Theme is “Drink Local Beer Festival.” Plan on contacting Deb’s Brewtopia, Iowa Brewing Company, Singlespeed, Franklin Street, Clock House Brewing, Thew Brewing, Third Base, Lion Bridge Brewing, Quarter Barrel, Reunion, and Guildwurst. Did we also say Back Pocket and Big Grove?
Would like to get a local charity for this year’s festival.
Agreed to get a DJ this year.
After-festival activities will be at Lion Bridge Brewing this year. Those volunteering for working at the festival will get beer vouchers.
Port-a-potties have been ordered.

New Business

(none)

Upcoming Meetings

The cabinet agreed that the location of cabinet meeting should be that of the next month’s general meeting when logistically possible.

Cabinet Meetings
June - (Tentative) Backpocket C.R., June 6, 7:00 pm
July - (Tentative) Clock House Brewing, July 11, 7:00 pm
August - location TBD, August 8, 7:00 pm
September - location TBD, September 12, 7:00 pm
October - location TBD, October 10, 7:00 pm
November - location TBD, November 10, 7:00 pm
December - location TBD, December 7, 7:00 pm

General Meetings
June - (Tentative) Backpocket C.R., June 21, 8:00 pm
July - (Tentative) Clock House Brewing, July 19, 8:00 pm
August - location TBD, August 16, 8:00 pm
September - location TBD, September 20, 8:00 pm
October - location TBD, October 18, 8:00 pm
November - Officer elections - (Tentative) Longbranch, 8:00 pm
December - no general meeting

Adjournment

Meeting was adjourned by consensus at 8:25 pm.