Rock Hoppers Brew Club Agenda

Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:45 PM – Castle Rock Homebrew Supply

Call to Order and Welcome to New Members – Geoff

President’s Report – Geoff

• Support Castle Rock Homebrew Supply.  Buy your ingredients and equipment tonight!
• Elections coming up in March think about positions and potential nominations
• Discussion of Issues/Recommendations/Education Topics to make your club better 

Event Director’s Report – Jeff

• Possible River North Brewery Tour
• Possible side trips to other local breweries (Epic, Crooked Stave, OMF, Mockery, Beryl, etc)
• Tentatively scheduled for February/March
• NHC conference is in San Diego and registration is coming up soon.

Competition Director’s Report – Brian/Billy

• Prior Competition:
  • Big Beers
    • Doug Thiel: 3rd Place Belgian Pale Ale
    • Billy Beeson: 1st Place Baltic Porter
    • Greg Geiger: 2nd Place Imperial Stout
    • Brian Pramov: 2nd Place Fruit Beer
    • Bryan Keas: 1st Place Specialty Beer
    • Ed Moore: 2nd Place Strong Scotch Ale, 3rd Place Dopplebock, and HM Baltic Porter
• Current Competitions:
  • Biere de Rock
    • Need Volunteers to help sort, judge, steward, etc.
    • Sorting Saturday January 17^th (Need Volunteers!)
    • Judging Sunday January 18^th Saisons (Need 2 Judges!)
    • Main Competition Saturday Jan 24^th (Need Volunteers – Stewarts)
  • Intraclub
    • Big Beers (over 8% ABV)
• Future Competitions:
  • Peterson AFB (due Jan 23)
  • Sweetheart’s Revenge (due Feb 6)
  • Dreadhop (due Feb 6)
  • Mazer Cup (due March 6)
  • Brew Hut (due March 15)
  • Peak-to-Peak
  • NHC

Communication Director’s Report – Bryan

• Still recovering from Big Beers just agenda today…

Treasurer’s Report – Phil

• We are in good shape
• Over 50 paid members, exceeding our goal!

Education – Jim

• Jim unable to attend meeting
• Round Robin Beer Q&A

Open Forum