Join us at Aardwolf this Saturday, November 17th for our November club meeting and our annual Belgian competition. The meeting starts at 6pm. Final judging for Abbey Normal begins at 2pm. If you are a BJCP judge or an experienced judge please come early to help judge some great Belgian beers.
We will also start taking nominations for next year’s CASK officers at the meeting.
Don’t forget to come out to V Pizza’s Tap Garden in Mandarin tomorrow and vote for your favorite home brew. It starts at 1pm and there will also be local breweries participating. An entry fee of $10 gets you a tasting cup and unlimited samples.
Additional details can be found here.
Sharpen your mash paddles and refine your skills it’s MASTER BREWER 2018.
November 3rd 10am – finish
Sign up by 10/29 to reserve your spot on a team!
Teams will be challenged to create the best beer possible from mystery ingredients. The winner will be decided by popular vote at a keg competition during our end of the year banquet in January.
Each team will be assembled via a top secret draft that will pair experienced and newer brewers with a team captain who will bring their brewing equipment to the group brew day on November 3 (AHA learn to brew day)
Teams will receive a 10# bag of 2-row, 1oz of bittering hops and 2oz of flavor/aroma type hops. You will also receive a fistful of tickets which you canspend on unidentified ingredients that will be in .5 pound increments or 1oz increments in the case of hops. The mystery ingredients will be in the following categories Crystal Malts, Adjuncts, Roasted Malts, hops, and a Mystery Adjunct Grab Bag.
It will be up to the team to chooses how to spend their tickets, identify what their ingredients are and craft a winning recipe from them.
All brewing will be done as a group brew at Just Brew It. No additional ingredient beyond what you choose may be added to the beer.
This event is free to CASK Members do to the generous sponsorship of Just Brew It.
IN ORDER TO SIGN UP RESPOND TO THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK or sign up here. If you are willing to bring your equipment for the brew day let us know when you sign up.
I’ve updated the Abbey Normal page with the Reggie link and dates. I am unsure of the prejudging and final location but wanted to get the link out so people can start entering.
Update: Dates have changed. Please see the link above. We have moved the date back a week.
Join us Saturday, August 11th at Brewer’s Pizza for our August meeting. Interklub is Session Beers. Please bring them chilled to the meeting by 5pm or drop them off at Just Brew It by close of business Friday. Social hour starts at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm. If you can judge we can use your help at 5pm. See you there!
First Coast Cup starts tomorrow. There are still tickets available for the awards banquet Saturday. You can get your tickets here.
Abbey Normal will be in November this year. Here are the participating sponsor breweries we have so far. If you win gold for these categories you get to brew your beer at that brewery.
Remember, this is a club members only competition. More updates will be sent out as more breweries are added and as we get closer to the date.
Because there is no Interklub the meeting starts at 6pm. Mike Lentz will be doing a special presentation on brewing with Kveik, which is a strain of yeast from Norway that has a wide temperature range and is gaining popularity. David Poquette will also be doing a stewarding class for those who would like to steward at First Coast Cup.
We will be judging First Coast Cup entries that morning starting at 11am at Intuition on Bay St. We will also be judging again on Sunday at 11am. As a bonus whoever beats me there Saturday can use my amazing mechanical pencil that stays sharp and doesn’t break the lead 12 times while you judge. I forgot it today and it should be in the judging box. We had a low turnout on judges today. We really need to see better turn out.
Our June meeting is at Veterans United Craft Brewery. The interklub competition is Session IPA. Judging starts at 5pm. After judging John will explain how to make yeast starters and how to propagate yeast from bottle dregs. Meeting agenda can be found here.
Our next FCC planning meeting will be June 13th at 6:30pm at Seven Bridges.
Don’t forget our first First Coast Cup planning meeting is tonight at Seven Bridges at 6:30pm.
Saturday May 12th we meet at Bold City. Our Interklub competition is wheat beers. If you would like to help judge we start at 5pm.
