C.A.S.K.

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.

Join us this Saturday at Aardwolf for our July Interklub Meeting.

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.

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.

Upcoming Events

4/21 Don’t forget our meeting tomorrow at Green Room Brewing. The meeting starts at 6pm but we need judges at 5pm for our homebrew competition. Details of the meeting can be found on the side bar.

4/22 There is a home brew competition at Ale Wife. The category is Lagers. The event runs from 1pm to 2pm. Show your ID to get a tasting cup and vote for your favorite beers.

5/5 AHA Big Brew Day! This will be hosted at Just Brew It. Flames on at 10am. Bring your full rig or just run a extract batch cider or even a wine kit from JBI.

There will be a couple tents set up but if you have your own bring it as well as some chairs and other comforts (ie beer).

This is a good event to check out other peoples equipment and methods.

First Coast Cup Planning

It is time to start planning First Coast Cup. We are finalizing the location and will be holding our first planning meeting in May. We will need Judges, Stewards, Celler Masters, and a lot of help. It is a good time and a great way to learn more about beer and brewing. Stay tuned here for the meeting information. We will also send out an email and post information in our Facebook group as things are finalized.

Finally, congratulations to the following Hurricane Blow-off Medalists.

Gallagher Dempsey
1st Place American Ale
3rd Place Trappist Ale
Jesse Johnson 
1st Place International Lager
Matthew Depin and Paul Yauilla
1st Place Scottish Ale
Leandro Britto
2nd Place Irish Beer
Jeff Shannon
1st Place Irish Beer
John Keane
2nd Place Standard American Beer
3rd Place German Wheat
2nd Place Scottish Ale
Buddy Greer and Indy Greer
1st Place Standard Cider and Perry
3rd Place Best of Show for Mead and Cider

Full results are available here.

Join us this Thursday, March 22nd at Engine 15 for the tapping of Leandro Britto’s Belgian Pale Ale, Belga Sarada. The fun starts at 6pm.  Map

Reminder: Hurricane Blowoff and NHC beers are due at JBI by close of business Thursday March 29th.