Brewers,

The committee has decided that, in the interest of public safety, we are postponing the monthly meetings until further notice due to Covid-19.
We’re brainstorming ways to reach out to our community while we’re in isolation, particularly since many brewers will have some extra brewdays on the horizon. The forum, or our Facebook group “Canberra Brewers Members” is the place to go to post about your latest brewdays, ask for advice, or just show off some brew gear.
Keep an eye on www.health.act.gov.au for the latest advice and guidance. Stay safe, wash your hands, feel free to panic buy some Tooheys Extra Dry in case you need to distill something for sanitizer.

MTB

Due to a stuff up we’re unfortunately unable to confirm we can unlock the hall tonight. If you have ACT Championships beers to drop off committee members will be there to receive them. Apologies, we will post further information about re-scheduling the meeting.

We’ve changed the settings on our site for your protection to only allow access with the https protocol, or securely. There are portions of the site where users input data so we want to make sure we’re doing what we can to protect it. Members might be asked to log in again on the forums, if you have any troubles accessing the forums (I’m not sure what will happen with others but my access still seems to work fine) please let me know.

Cheers – Scotty, webmaster@canberrabrewers.com.au.

Education Session @ 7:30pm

Stu Whytcross of Voyager Craft Malt fame is back this month to take us through a malt sensory evaluation process using a hot steeping method. Stu will also give us a rundown on all the exciting things happening at Voyager. Stu’s had a long association with the club and his presentations are always popular so make sure you get to Gorman House at 7.30pm hear from this local legend.

2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

A reminder that we have our Annual General Meeting (AGM) in March where all positions are up for re-election as per Rules of Association.

The office-bearers of the club are:

·         The president;

·         The treasurer;

·         The social secretary;

·         The competition secretary;

·         The education officer;

·         The editor;

The ordinary committee members of the club are:

·         (The webmaster;

·         The Assets Manager;

·         assistant committee member.

If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else for one of these positions, please send an email to Tom Dixon at Dicko on the forum or speak to him at the start of this month’s meeting.

Memberships!

Ladies and gentleman we are going to be much swifter in asking for you to pay you membership dues this year. You will have until the end of March before we start the cut off of non-paying members. A reminder the all membership renewals are online through our payment portal. http://www.canberrabrewers.com.au/about-us/become-a-member/

Another Multicultural Festival done and dusted

The 2019 Multicultural festival was a great success thanks to the help from our members and club supporters. We will announce how we went at this month’s meeting.

Raffle Prizes

Another great raffle this month with bags of grain courtesy of Voyager, a Gift voucher for you and friend to enjoy a meal and beers at “To all my friends”. Some Evil eye from local brewers Capital brewing.

Library

Make sure you check out the library account.  Visit: https://canberrabrewers.librarika.com/ and check out some great resources and reserve a book or two to read over the next month.  You can reserve a copy of something and we’ll deliver it at the meeting.  If the book is on loan, email education@canberrabrewers.com.au and we’ll arrange it to be brought back for you to borrow.  Don’t have access to the library? Email us and we’ll hook you up.

NOOKIE !

Bring beer, get NOOKIE. Remember every time you enter the raffle at club night and buy $5 or more of tickets you get an entry into the Nookie, bring a bottle(s) of beer of 750ml or more and get another ticket, bring a keg get 3 Tickets! Get on it!

Six-Pack Swap

You contribute a six pack of your beers and get to sample a mixed six pack of styles, flavours, brewing techniques and ingredients, all packaged up by your fellow brewers. (It doesn’t matter if your beers will need a bit more time in the bottle before they’re ready to drink, join the swap and just suggest a ‘don’t drink before’ date). Add your details in the forum. Please put some kind of identifying mark or label on your bottles and bring them along to swap on Wednesday night.