MAY SAAZ BREWZletter

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TBBTMay SAAZ Meeting

Sunday, May 15th at 2pm

The Broken Barrel Tavern

On the agenda…
SAAZ Intraclub Challenge #3 Spring Fling Awards Ceremony
SAAZ Intraclub Challenge #4 Crazy Brew
Bottoms Up Beer Run

Bring your money for another big RAFFLE!!!

Don’t forget your T-shirt money!

CHALLENGE #3 – SPRING FLINGSpring Fling

To help Nathan and our judges prepare for another Epic Commander SAAZ, we are holding a smaller SAAZ only SPRING FLING competition.

Competition Volunteers – we need you!!! Please come help judge and steward 🙂 We have to judge each category and Best of Show to get through in a few hours so we need all of our BJCP judges and some stewards hands on deck.

Please arrive at 10AM to help set up and we will start judging ASAP.

For your help you will be rewarded with Smoked Chicken Wings for lunch!

Awards will be given out at the 2pm SAAZ Meeting following the competition.

Gold Medal winners in each category will receive a $10 Brock’s gift card.

Winner of Best of Show will take half of the entry fees home ($35 Brock’s gift card)!

 

2016_logo2Bottoms Up Beer Run – June 11th, 2016 @ 3pm 

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! Registration Page – www.saaz.org/bottomsup. Help us get 500 runners!!! Spread the word. Share the Facebook event, don’t forget to pass out your postcards, posters and coasters.

Please email Anne, use the Sign Up Genius or sign up at a meeting to help. We need planning committee members and event volunteers.

Challenge #4 – Extreme Brew ChallengeExtreme Beer

No rules, just Extreme Beers… Russ Pellow this one is for you! Have you ever wanted to experiment and add Birthday Cake or Tang to your beer? How about an artichoke (Drew Thaller)? Well here is your chance to get your creative juices flowing and brew something off the wall. No BJCP styles here, just a popularity contest. Presentation of the beer will also be considered if you care to rim your glass or serve with a truffle made from the beer. Only goal is to make everyone love it! Beers will be judged at the July Meeting. Start thinking about this one now. Remember the crazier the better. I believe Ryan Kaestner will be using the tears of Virgins and Unicorn hooves so don’t steal his ideas. CHEERS!

Interclub Brew Challenge RULES:

1) Must be a current SAAZ Member with 2016 Dues paid.

2) Sign-up for the challenge at a meeting – General or Officer. The supplies for each challenge are limited and to keep things fair for all we will not accept sign-ups at any other time.

3) Must pick up special ingredient at a SAAZ Meeting (General or Officer), we will not make special arrangements to deliver items.

4) Bring 6 – 12 oz bottles or a 64 oz growler of your beer to the designated meeting for judging.

5) SAAZ will provide a prize for the winner of the challenge. We also encourage you to enter into upcoming homebrew competitions to win even more!

6) If you fail to participate in a challenge it will affect your ability to partake in future challenges.

UPCOMING COMPETITIONS

Check out the American Homebrewers Association website for a complete list of the 2016 competitions.

Hogtown Brewoff – 5/20-21/16

  • Gainesville, FL
  • Entry Window closed

CFHB Sunshine Challenge – 6/26/16

Meadllennium 2016 – 6/26/16

First Coast Cup – 7/29-30/16

  • Jacksonville, FL
  • Entry Window 6/20-7/8
  • Brewers will be allowed to enter a maximum of four (4) beers for the first week of open registration and then up to an additional three (3) beers for a total of seven (7) for the remainder of the entry window. Enter early!

BEER RAILROAD – Bring your entries to any SAAZ Meeting, Officer Meeting or Brock’s and we will arrange to get them delivered to the competition. Watch your email and Facebook for drop-off deadlines.

Policy: SAAZ will reimburse entry payments for Florida circuit competitions, up to 10 per brewer and up to $1000 total per year. Remember that SAAZ policies and procedures state that any expense must be turned in within 90 days for reimbursement.  If you enter any FLORIDA CIRCUIT competitions this year, email a copy of your registration to Sean Gregg for reimbursement.

SAAZ GOOGLE CALENDAR LINK

SAAZ May Meeting/Spring Fling – May 15th, 2pm @ The Broken Barrel Tavern

SAAZ Officer Meeting – June 2nd, 6:30pm @ Gregg House

Bottoms Up Beer Run – June 11th, 3pm @ Wickham Park

SAAZ Summer Beach Party – June 18th, 12 noon @ Pelican Beach Clubhouse

SAAZ Officer Meeting – July 8th, 6:30pm @ Gregg House

SAAZ July Meeting – July 17th, 2pm @ Village Idiot Pub

SAAZ August Meeting – August 21, 2pm @ TBD

Commander SAAZ – September 17th @ The Hilton Cocoa Beach

SAAZtoberfest – October 15th, 12 noon @ Suntree Rotary Park

 

2016 Dues – Time to renew!

If you want to be included in all the fun events SAAZ has coming up, it’s time to renew your membership. Some of the upcoming events and brew challenges are only open to currently paid 2016 members. There are many advantages to membership, you do not want to miss out. Please pay the Treasurer (Sean Gregg) at any club meeting or online at our website via PayPal – Click here to pay. Make sure to get your new membership card from the secretary.

Individual Membership = $20     Family Membership = $30     Lifetime Membership = $150

***Please take note that dues have increased this year***

Does anyone read the newsletter???

Email editor@saaz.org and receive a free raffle ticket for the next meeting. Thanks for taking the time to read the newsletter. We will see who does and who doesn’t on Sunday.

 

beer-booksSAAZ 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: Nathan Gray- 1stvp@saaz.org

Second VP/Party & Event Planner: Delania Collins – 2ndvp@saaz.org

Secretary/Membership: Ryan Kaestner – secretary@saaz.org

Treasurer: Sean Gregg – treasurer@saaz.org

Newsletter/Webmaster: Anne Gregg – editor@saaz.org

Librarian: Dan Markey – library@saaz.org