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CANBERRA BREWERS MARCH MEETING PREVIEW

Here’s a bit of a preview to what’s happening at next Thursday’s meeting (March 5) at the Harmonie German Club in Narrabundah. We’re going to kick the meeting off at 7.30pm sharp with a demo on counter-pressure bottle filling (details below).

National Multicultural Festival report

President Joel Baines will update members on the takings from this major fundraising event, and outline what it means for this year’s budget.

Memberships are due now.

It’s super easy to pay via Paypal, cash at the meeting or direct debit but you must fill out a form. Everything you need is just a click away.

Club competition 1 for 2015
Entries are now open. Judging to take place at Lawfo’s house on Sunday, March 29. Enter your beers BEFORE MARCH 21. You can also sign up to judge or steward on the forum it’s a great way for new brewers to learn about competitions.

The club library’s online catalogue is up and running!
If you haven’t yet received an invitation to join the library at https://canberrabrewers.librarika.com/ email patrick.baggoley@gmail.com asap. All Library book requests MUST be made via this system before Wednesday, March 4.

This month’s raffle
We have a sack of grain from Belco Brew Supplies, Little Creatures merchandise, Fullers bar mats, a stainless-steel mash paddle, Russian River beers, caps from anhc, stainless steel keg disconnects and an oxygenation kit.

Counter-pressure bottle filling demonstration
Starting at 7.30pm ON THE DOT in the bierkeller. We will show several methods of filling bottles from kegs in the lead up to Comp 1. The results will be tucked away for two months to see how the beers hold up.

Brewer’s Showcase
Canberra Brewers stalwart Craig “Stagger” Webber will bring in a keg of his Stone and Wood clone, and discuss the recipe and brewing methods.

BJCP
Interested in taking on the Beer Judge Certification Program? We’re calling for expressions of interest, keep an eye on the forum for details or email the education officer patrick.baggoley@gmail.com

Save the date!
International Homebrew Day is on Saturday, May 2, from 10am, assistant social secretary PhatTony will discuss where plans are at.

And don’t forget the education survey

We’ve had 51 responses to the club education survey and given we’ve sent out 130 invites to our club library, we know there are more of you out there. Get on there and have your say so we know what sort of activities to deliver at meetings and beyond.

See you all next week!

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As in previous years the Canberra Brewers are involved in the National Multicultural Festival.

Come and see us at stall A36/A37, we are located near MacDonalds / diagonally opposite from King O’Malleys.

This year we have a partnership with BentSpoke Brewing Co. to serve you Canberra’s freshest craft beer. On tap we will have Crankshaft (IPA), Morts Gold (Hoppy Pilsner), Adam’s Cider (Apple Cider) and a tap that will cycle through different BentSpoke beers.

Come and support both your local home brewing club and a local brewery by enjoying a fresh beer while at the Multicultural Festival.

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Growler – A Happy Raffler

Canberra Brewers shivered their way into the Harmonie German Club on a cold winter’s night in July for another fun/beer filled meeting. Once again, we left the miracle boxes on the sideline for a bottle sharing night. Ciders, Schwarzes, and IPAs were bandied about. Diacetyl was criticised, hops were appreciated. Cheeks were made red. It was good.

The committee ran through the latest with ANHC (tickets now on sale!) and reminded members that this year’s Oktoberfest will be more of a Septemberfest, before compsec Steve ‘Lawfo’ Lawford handed out all the certificates from competition two. Co-social secretary Jeremy Michael kicked off planning for the club bar at the ANHC Club Night before a bunch of spring rolls and fried chicken came out.

Full of spring rolls and fried chicken, brewers sat down for the ‘going for gold’ talk, where former champion brewers Craig ‘Stagger’ Webber, Ross Mitchell, Kevin Hingston, and Mark Overton shared their varied approaches and attitudes to competition success. Hopefully brewers can find some barley and/or wheat among the chaff of that talk and really rep the club at the ACTABCs and AABCs this year.

With the talking well and truly behind us, we called the humoungous July raffle. With a brand new Keg King Keg via Mashematics, half a kilo of Hop Dealz hops, books, an infrared thermometer, and a bunch of swag from the Lord Nelson brewery, tickets went like hot cakes. Chris ‘Growler’ De La Rue wanted to win so bad, he broke his arm rushing to the front, but in the end it paid mad dividends for him.

IHBD Beers
IHBD Beers

The June meeting showcased the Big Brew Day beers. Brewed on May 3 at The Make Hack Void, the beer this year was American Pale Ale with each brewer allocated a two hop combination for flavour and aroma. The brewers who lined up (and their accompanying hops) were:
Scotty T (Cascade + Nelson Sauvin)
Chekkie (Amarillo + Citra)
Bainesy (Ahnatum + ?)
Gazza (Kohatu + Southern Cross)
Coops (Waimea + Kohatu)
Geoff Swan (Sorachi Ace + El Dorado)
Anton Wood (Southern Cross + Wai-Iti)
Patrick Baggoley (Mosaic + Vic Secret)

After a brief talk about the actual brew day, the members settled into sampling the 8 kegs of APA for the evening.

Other highlights of the meeting were a host of new members turning up and an epic amount of gear up for grabs in the raffles.

IHBD Brewers
IHBD Brewers