C.A.S.K.

Thank you Bold City Brewery for hosting our May club meeting and donating to our raffle! We appreciate everyone that was able to come out Saturday night and make this another successful CASK event. We had an impressive number entries for our Beer with <10 SRM Interklub Competition. So, a big thank you goes out to those members that came out early to help judge. We could not make this happen without your continued support!

Congratulations Interklub Competition Winners!

Gold: Richard Ten Hulzen (Krystalweizen)

Silver: Eric Lievers (American IPA)

Bronze: Jason Click (Munich Helles)

Congratulations to all of the CASK members that won medals last weekend at the Hurricane Blowoff Competition! Way to represent CASK!!!

Our award winners were:

Matt Britton – Silver (Standard American Beer), Mike Murphy – Bronze (Dark Euro Lager), David Ankrom – Silver (Standard Cider and Perry), Jesse Johnson – Bronze (Strong American Ale) – Bronze (Spiced Beer), Richard Ten Hulzen – Gold (Historical Beer) Bronze- (Standard Cider and Perry).

Thank you everyone that was able to come out to our April Club meeting at Seven Bridges Grille & Brewery. As expected, there was a large number of entries for our Beers with a >30 SRM Interklub Competition. A big thank you to all of our members that came out early to help judge. Our next month’s meeting will be at Bold City Brewery. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to April’s Interklub Winners!

Gold: John Keane (Bourbon Barrel Russian Imperial Stout)

Silver: Ian Dibble (Sweet Stout)

Bronze: Rick Terrio (Dark Czech Lager)

Thank you everyone that came out to our March club meeting. We appreciate all of those that helped judge the 20 entries for our IPA Interklub Competition. Thank you CASK members that donated your beer for the Hogtown Beer Festival and help support our club in this incredible event!

Congratulations IPA Interklub Winners!

Gold: Christopher Dibble

Silver: William McDowell

Bronze: Scott Peden

In this year’s Coconut Cup, we had a very successful competition coming in second place and brought home a total of 18 medals! A big congratulations goes out to each of the following CASK members that won an award: Leandro Britto, Matthew Britton, Jason & Denise Click, Angela Costello, Christopher Dibble, Jesse Johnson, Eric Lievers, Jay Mason, James Moore, Mike Murphy, Mitch Nicholas, Jeff Shannon. Way to represent CASK ladies and gentlemen!

Thank you to everyone that was able to come out to Veterans United this Saturday, February 9th for our monthly club meeting. It was great to see all of you again and get this new year started. Congratulations to this evening’s Interklub Mead Competition winners.

First Place: Jeff Shannon

Second Place: John Peterson

Third Place: David Ankrom

We are looking forward to seeing you at our next month’s C.A.S.K. meeting. Cheers!

The first of the 2018 Abbey Normal beers are being brewed. First up is Jesse Johnson’s winning Belgian Single recipe brewed in collaboration with Main and Sixth Brewing.  The tapping is January 18th at 3pm at Main and Sixth.

Abbey Normal is our annual Belgian Beer competition. Local breweries sponsor a category and the gold medal winner gets to brew their recipe on the sponsor’s brew system. The competition is open to any CASK member current on their club dues and is usually held in the fall.  The beers are judged to the BJCP style guidelines for the sponsored category.

The end of year awards banquet is next Saturday, January 12th at American Legion Post 137. This event is for club members only however it is never too late to join. The fun starts at 6pm but if you are bringing beer and food to share please arrive by 5pm.

Come out to Southern Swells this Saturday December 8th for our club meeting. Our interklub competition is Seasonal Beers.  Don’t forget to wear your Ugly Christmas Sweater. The meeting starts at 7pm. Social hour is at 6pm. If you are entering the homebrew competition have your entries there by 5pm or at Just Brew It by Friday and please register online.