May SAAZ BREWZletter
May SAAZ Meeting
Sunday, May 17th, 2pm
The Broken Barrel Tavern
4700 S Babcock St, Palm Bay, FL 32905
Come early for the Spring Fling – we need BJCP Judges & Stewards
SPRING FLING with SMOKED WINGS COMPETITION
May 17th, 10AM @ The Broken Barrel Tavern
To help Keith and our judges prepare for another Epic Commander SAAZ, we are holding a smaller SAAZ only SPRING FLING competition.
We need judges, stewards, entries and club participation! Entries will be picked up at Brock’s on Friday, May 15th.
Entry Information:
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3 Bottles per entry
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Cost $4 per entry, please pay the entry fees at the meeting (or prior) or you will be disqualified from any awards.
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Accepted BJCP (2008) Categories:
10: American Ale & 14: IPA
12: Porter & 13: Stout
24-28: Cider & Mead
23: Specialty – this is the catch-all category! You can enter any beer you want to here – Belgians, English Mild, Smoked Porter, your Hunahpu Clone…
Awards will be given out at the SAAZ Meeting. Winner of Best of Show will take half of the entry fees home! Other prizes awards for Gold Medal winners in each category.
Click here for the Reggie Entry Link – Don’t forget to bring your entries to Brock’s by Friday May 15th.
Competition Volunteers:
Please arrive at 10AM to help set up and we will start judging ASAP.
We have 2 rounds for each category and a Best of Show to get through in a few hours so we need all of our BJCP judges and some stewards.
For your help you will be rewarded with Smoked Chicken Wings for lunch!
Bottoms Up Beer Run – June 13th, 2015 @ 6pm
Save the date & tell your friends to join us for an awesome 4K with homebrew along the way!
Proceeds from the run support St. Baldrick’s!
Please email Anne or sign up at a meeting to help. We need help with PR, sponsors and event volunteers.
Please plan to take more postcards and coasters to area businesses to help promote the run!
SAAZ Intraclub Brew Challenge
CHALLENGE #3 – SPRING FLING with SMOKED WINGS COMPETITION
See above for all the details
CHALLENGE #4 – Sch-WHEAT on Homebrew
The next next challenge will feature WHEAT BEERS, perfect for summer time drinking.
SAAZ will provide the wheat for your brew and you provide the rest.
We have space for 8 All-Grain Brewers and 4 Extract Brewers. Sign-up at the May SAAZ Meeting, we have a few spots left.
All-Grain Brewers will receive 6lb of malted white wheat and Extract Brewers get a 3lb bag of Briess Bavarian Wheat DME
Remember you must bring your beer to be judged at the Summer Party.
Upcoming Events: mark your calendars and join us!
SAAZ GOOGLE CALENDAR LINK
SPRING FLING – May 17th, 10am @ The Broken Barrel Tavern
May SAAZ Meeting – May 17th, 2pm @ The Broken Barrel Tavern
Bottoms Up Beer Run – June 13th, 6pm @ Wickham Park
SAAZ Summer Party – June 20th, 12pm @ Chet’s House
July SAAZ Meeting – July 19th, 2pm @ World of Beer Viera
August SAAZ Meeting – August 16th @ Bugnutty Brewing Company
Commander SAAZ – October 3rd @ Cocoa Beach Hilton
Rocky Water Brew Fest – October 17th, Downtown Eau Gallie
Upcoming Competitions – showcase your award winning homebrew!
SAAZ is all about homebrewing and we encourage all members to brew and enter their creations in competition to get feedback so you can learn and become a better brewer
Hogtown Brewoff – May 23rd in Gainesville FLORIDA CIRCUIT COMPETITION
- Entry window closed
- Join us to judge/steward the competition – they always have great food!
Sunshine Challenge – July 11th in Orlando FLORIDA CIRCUIT COMPETITION
- Entry window open 05/04-05/28
- To submit entries go to Reggie to register your entries online, registration is $8 per entry
- If you are interested in coming to help judge or steward please visit our Facebook Event Page for all of the details and late breaking news
First Coast Cup – August 15th in Jacksonville FLORIDA CIRCUIT COMPETITION
- Entry window open 07/06 – 07/22
For more competitions visit the AHA.
Prost! Cheers! Happy Birthday!
Marie Hieronymous and Aaron Guittar
Don’t see your name? It could be that Secretary (Adrian Moser) doesn’t have your completed membership form. Ask him for one at the next meeting so we can include you!
SAAZ Library
The SAAZ Library is full of great books and magazines to help make you a better brewer. You can view the entire list of publications here. If you see something that interests you, simply send an email to the librarian with your name and the publication title, and the Librarian will bring it to the next monthly member meeting.
Feedback/Contact Us
We need your help! We are very interested in improving the club and we’d like to hear what you think. If you have comments or suggestions about the Newsletter, Website, Activities, or the Club in general, please send an email to editor@saaz.org.
Contact Us:
President: Dan Shirah – president@saaz.org
First VP/Competition Coordinator: Keith Allen- 1stvp@saaz.org
Second VP/Party & Event Planner: Dave Webb – 2ndvp@saaz.org
Secretary/Membership: Adrian Moser – secretary@saaz.org
Treasurer: Sean Gregg – treasurer@saaz.org
Newsletter/Webmaster: Anne Gregg – editor@saaz.org
Librarian: Ken Adams – library@saaz.org