Judging and Presidential Brew Day

By Darryl Barbour, President

G’day brewers, last month was a busy one for the committee, with sponsorship arrangements and moving forward on a few of the purchases we talked about at the last meeting. In particular, I’ve been hunting down the oxygen equipment for the proposed club buy. I’ve now sourced a good price on the needle valve and flow-meter assembly, and appropriate airstones so we should be ready to kick this off. Check the forum for more details in the next few days.

Of course, brewing leads to beer which leads to club competitions. The judging on Sunday 28 March was great – not so much in that we, the judges, were great (though feel free to tell is that), but rather the quality of the beers was on the whole superb. It was especially great to see a few new names amongst the brewers at the top of each category. I’ve said it before, but we’ve got a National’s title to defend and looking at the number of brewers producing great beers, we’ve got to have a good shot at it. No resting though, it’s time to get those strong lagers and strong ales in the fermenter, to get them ready on time.

 
 [Ed] Judging beer is a serious business
 

Looking forward though, we’ve got lots of activities planned, not least of which is the Presidential Brewday in late April/early May. I’ll be looking for a novice brewer who wants to brew their first all-grain batch of beer. You get to brew the beer and take it home to ferment. We’ll also hopefully have a few other demo systems (partial mash and the like) going. It should be a great event.

There will be lots of other events coming up so check out the forums, register your interest and get involved… It’s your club!