August Meeting

The middle of the year has passed and we’re one meeting closer to one of the biggest club nights of the year – Oktoberfest!
But first, we had a meeting in August – and despite the cold a great number of brewers turned out with quite a few new faces in the crowd.

Despite some heckling from the normal crowd at the back of the room, the committee got stuck into the official proceedings for the night and passed on some important information to the members.

Bruce got up and gave everyone an idea of what the club would be doing as part of this year’s Floriade festival – talking about beer, so even if you’re not part of the official team make sure you keep up to date with what is going on and go down there and show some support.

Eugene educated the crowd on malting wheat and barley with plenty walking away with either knowing more about the grains they use for their everyday brewing to those perhaps thinking of giving it a go themselves.

The kegs ran dry pretty quickly, but members had plenty of bottled beer to pass around for feedback – including this editor who is back to first brew status on a new brew system and copped a fair bit of feedback on a “kit beer” – thanks fellas, the day was a disaster but it sort of resembled a beer!

The raffles saw some great beer up for grabs including some bottles Moo Brew from Tassie as well as a bunch of other items up for grabs.

Overall it was another spectacular night for the brewers of Canberra.

For those who don’t know, next month is Oktoberfest!

For us anyway, the club is not available for our normal meeting night in Oktober so we’re celebrating it earlier. Until next time.