May 2013 Newsletter

In this edition:

• Blowoff from the Prez
• Secretary’s Report
• Birthdays
• 2013 Dues
• SAAZ Library
• Upcoming Events
• Next Meeting – May 19th
• Upcoming Competitions
• REWARD!
• Beers Available in the Area
• SAAZ on Facebook
• Raffle
• Feedback

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Blow off from the Prez

Q: How do you know when a bee has had too much to drink?

A: He starts to have a buzzzzzz.

Cheers

David Webb

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Secretary’s Report

Q: What’s the difference between the NC State football team and Cheerios?

A: Cheerios belong in a bowl!

~Kevin

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May Birthdays – Happy Birthday!

Marie Hieronymus
Aaron Guittar

Don’t see your name (and your birthday is in May)? It could be that Kevin doesn’t have a completed membership form from you. Ask him for one at the next meeting so we can include you!

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2013 Dues

The year is almost halfway over! That means you have surely renewed your membership so you can continue to enjoy all of the fun that comes with it!

Individual Membership = $15
Couple’s Membership = $25
Lifetime Membership = $150

Dues can be paid to the Treasurer (Anne Gregg) at any club meeting or online at our website via PayPal Click here to pay.

You don’t want to miss out on the benefits of membership!

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SAAZ Library

Have you ever wanted to read up on how to make different styles of beer?

Or perhaps you would like to see different techniques for brewing.

If so, the SAAZ Library may have what you are looking for!!

You can view the entire list of publications Here.

If you see something that interests you, simply send an email to SAAZLibrarian@gmail.com with your name and the publication title, and the Librarian will bring it to the next monthly member meeting.

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Upcoming Events

Beer School @ The Broken Barrel Tavern

It may be graduation time for many out there, but class is in session at The Broken Barrel Tavern. We’ll have the next installment of Beer School on Saturday, May 18th.

Beer School 101 – Intro to Beer. This overview class will provide the basics of beer, styles and the brewing process. There will even be samples of each of the topics. Class begins at 12:00 noon, don’t be late or you’ll have a detention. Cost – FREE! *All participants must be 21 or older*

Beer School 202 – Sour Ales. This class will dive into the tart and tangy styles of sour beers. We’ll discuss, learn and sample (that’s right, there’s a practical component to this class too!). Class begins at 3:00pm. Cost – $10.00/person. *All participants must be 21 or older*

Be sure to sign up for these classes, space is limited. Call us at 321-728-4755, emailinfo@brokenbarreltavern.com, or come on in – it could be a good time to do a little homework 🙂

See you in class!
© 2012 The Broken Barrel Tavern
321.728.4755

Bottoms Up Beer Run

SAAZ has a new fundraiser and needs your help. We want to raise money to support club brewing, education and fun trips/pub crawls.

We are hosting a 4K beer run with homebrew at the start, end and each 1K along the way. We need lots of help to make this successful.

Everyone mark your calendar to help volunteer or run the Bottoms Up Beer Run 8/17/13 at 6:30pm.

I need brewers to help brew the beer for the run, SAAZ will reimburse you.

Please email Anne Gregg if you can help (annecgregg@earthlink.net).

**Keg Donations**

Attention Members

We realize that the beer you provide for events such as those above does not magically appear and cost you nothing. Therefore, SAAZ will be implementing a new policy to help reimburse you for the beer you bring to events.

1/2 keg – $20
Full keg – $40

All reimbursement requests can be given to the Treasurer.

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Next Meeting – May 19th (Sunday)

This month’s meeting will be at Crispy’s Beer and Wine Bar in Rockledge.

When:
Sunday, May 19th at 2pm

Where:
Crispy’s Beer and Wine Bar
604 Barnes Blvd
Rockledge, FL 32955

Click Here for directions.

As always, bringing homebrew to share is strongly encouraged, but please respect our gracious host and leave commercial beers at home.

Next-Next Meeting: June 15th (Saturday) Summer Party, 10:30am setup, noon party!

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Upcoming Competitions

AHA Club Only

Think your homebrew club makes some pretty good beer? Have you ever wondered how it stacks up against other clubs’ beer?

The American Homebrewer’s Association Club-Only Competition (COC) program offers AHA-Registered Homebrew Clubs an opportunity to compete with other AHA-registered homebrew clubs. Each competition concentrates attention on a specific style of beer or mead, giving our club the opportunity to educate club members in these styles by focusing on them at club meetings or tasting events.

All AHA-registered homebrew clubs are eligible to compete in the COC. Each club may only send one entry per competition.  So, bring your homebrew to the April meeting for the next COC!!

May 2013

Extract Beers

Hosted by Stan Backlund and the Hangtown Association of Zymugry Enthusiasts club of Placerville, CA, this competition covers BJCP categories 1-23 where 50% or more of the fermentable sugars must come from the use of malt extract.

So, bring your eligible homebrew to the April meeting and some of our resident expert judges will determine which beer should represent our club!!  If your beer is chosen, SAAZ will reimburse you for shipping!!

Upcoming  Florida Competitions:

A Walk on the Wild Side

Special Hoperations invites you to come take a walk on the wild side.

Special Hoperations, a homebrew club in Tampa Florida, would like to pass along the follow information regarding our upcoming Sour and Brett Beer (mead and cider, too) competition. In order to make it easy for all to enter, we are asking for only two bottles and most bottles are accepted regardless of size or manner in which the bottle was capped. It means extra work for us, but we don’t mind. We know these are time consuming beers to make and therefore we accept the extra effort and care it will take to logistically handle different bottle sizes and caps during cellaring and judging to ensure your beers are stored and served properly.

Registration opens May 3rd and closes on June 1st.

Visit http://www.specialhoperations.org/wildside/ for more details.

The 2013 Hogtown Brew-Off

Will be held again at the beautiful Kanapaha Botanical Gardens May 24-25, 2013.

Kanapaha will be the site of judging Friday and Saturday, the Wild Boar Keg Competition Saturday afternoon, and the gala awards banquet Saturday night.

Entry Window Will Open On April 22, 2013

http://www.hogtownbrewers.org/Brewoff

Details of locations, times, etc. are available at http://miamihomebrew.org/

Meadllennium

Meadllennium is one of the nation’s premier, MEAD-ONLY competitions.

Meadllennium will be held this year on June 8, 2013 in Sanford Florida.

Registration is now open!

http://www.cfhb.org/meadllennium/

To submit entries, be sure to read the Entry Requirements, then go to Reggie
to register your entries online.

If you are interested in coming to help judge these delicious meads, visit
our Facebook Event Page for all of the details and late breaking news.

Nice weather and good mead – what a great combination!

Thanks
Sheila Jackson
CFHB Competitions

Check out the homebrewers association website for a list of the 2012 club-only competitions on the schedule.

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REWARD!

Attention all SAAZ members!

Once again we will be rewarding our member(s) that has the highest point total in the Florida circuit in both the Beer and Mead categories.

Be sure to submit your favorite brews to the various statewide competitions.

Current list of competition winners:

Name	BFBC	Coconut Cup	Hurricane Blowoff	Totals
Sean Gregg	1	6	2	9
Andrew Carpenter		1	1	2
Dave Webb		1	2	3
Glen Weimar		1	1	1
Rob Saunderson			3	3
Mead
Andrew Carpenter		3	1	4
Dave Webb		1	1	1

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Craft Beers Available in the Area

Coasters Pub (Indian Harbor Beach) – Facebook

World of Beer – Viera – Facebook

Crispy’s Beer & Wine Bar – Facebook

Complete beer listing for Crispy’s is available using Findmytap.

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