C.A.S.K.

Happy Sunday, CASK’ers!  We had a GREAT turnout last night for our April meeting and Interklub Competition.  First and foremost, THANK YOU Strings Sports Brewery for graciously hosting us and taking us on a tour of the brewhouse!  That was awesome!  The Interklub category was 21B, Haze Craze, and we had some delicious entries!  From a total of 14 entries, four came out on top!  Congratulations!

GOLD: Jesse Johnson, NEIPA Standard strength, Citra/Mosiac/Simcoe hops

SILVER: Tye Wallace, Double dry hopped with Cryo Citra, Cryo Mosaic and Cryo Columbus hops

BRONZE:  Darryl Dauphin, Apollo, Citra, Galaxy, Mosaic. Standard Strength

Honorable Mention – Ryan Wilmot, ABV: 6%, Amarillo, Huell Melon, Citra, Mosaic

Thank you to all who participated this month!  We have a busy month of May ahead:

• May 1 – Big Brew Day @ Legacy Ale Works, 10am-3pm. Members are free to brew any beer style. Besides water, please bring whatever ingredients and brewing equipment
  you would need for the day with
• May 22 – Kanine Social Homebrew Competition  Brew Styles: Session IPA’s and Pilsners, Light Lagers
  ● 2 – 5 gallon kegs per entrant
  ● Brewer will need to own serving table, keg, equipment for serving keg and
  keeping chilled
  ● Winner will get to brew their beer at Lemonstreet Brewing Company and
  have it served there and at Kanine Social, with other prizes including a $50
  gift card for 2nd place, and growler prizes
  ● There will be a $10 tasting charge for the public and proceeds will be
  donated to the Humane Society who will have a table set

Greetings!  Please join us for our next CASK meeting on Saturday, April 10, 2021 at Strings Sports Brewery!  Judging will begin at 5 pm, followed by our social hour at 6 pm, and the business meeting will start at 7 pm.  There will be a raffle, however we would prefer square payments or exact change to limit contact.    

This month’s Interklub Competition is Haze Craze: 21B. Please remember to register your entry online, print a label, and you may drop off your entries to Just Brew It by close of business Friday or bring your chilled bottles to the meeting at 5 pm. We will need two bottles of homebrew for judging.  See you there! 

Thank you, Southern Swells for hosting our happy hour on Wednesday!!

Congratulations to March’s Interklub Competition winners!  We had some outstanding meads!!

GOLD went to Lucas Kluz and his M3A – Fruit and Spice Mead with Dried fruit (plums, apples and pears) with light cinnamon

SILVER went to Travis Denmark and his M1C – Sweet Mead Wildflower Standard mead

BRONZE went to Mike Lentz and his M2C – Berry Mead Blueberry mead

HONORABLE MENTION – Jesse Johnson and his M2A – Cyser 

Thank you for participating!  We want to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Tabula Rasa for hosting us, we had a wonderful evening!

COMING UP NEXT! Pop-up happy hours are back!  Meet us at Southern Swells on March 24, 2021 at 6pm and enjoy some craft beer with us!

Tonight we celebrated the tapping of Jesse Johnson’s 2019 Belgian Witbier collaboration with King Maker Brewing. Also on tap is David Byer’s 2020 Abbaye Normale winning Belgian Golden Strong! Congratulations!!

A big thank you to Lemonstreet Brewing Co. for hosting CASK’s pop-up happy hour and tapping party for Kevin Woodcock’s winning Abbey Normale Trippel! Kevin is from Sweetwater, TN and a member of the Chop & Brew homebrew club. Congrats, Kevin!