News flash!

By Darryl Barbour, President

Brewers, the Club meeting is just two days away now, and with the ACT Amateur Brewing Championships just around the corner, which are themselves the qualifier for the Australian Amateur Brewing Championships (AABC), we’ll be hosting a presentation this month to help you get your best beers to the judging table, in the best condition possible. And just to show you we are serious, we’ll be rolling out a guest presenter with a host of titles: Former-President; Former-Social Secretary; Club Champion, AABC Champion, all around good guy and the deacon of Dortmunder … It is of course our own Craig Webber.

Craig will be giving a demonstration on the use of counter-pressure bottle filling. In other words, how to get your kegged beer into the bottle without oxidation, infection, or loss of carbonation. These seemingly complicated setups require just a bit of technique to master, and there can be few better to show us how than Craig (who has built a good number of them!).

We’ll also have the committee report (yay!), an update on club competition #3, hot nibbles and the raffle. And of course plenty of homebrew to try and plenty of time talk with other brewers and share recipes.

You know the drill, Harmonie German Club – downstairs, in the Bierkeller from 7:30pm this Thursday night (2 September 2010).