Hi Donna, Don’t forget the Cu drip tray. Thanks John From: overmountainbrewers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:overmountainbrewers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wild Child Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 7:45 AM To: overmountainbrewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [OMB] Re: December 2014 Meeting Also let me remind everyone that dues will be required again in January 2015. John Kelly will start taking these in the December 2014 meeting, so bring cash or a check. Current dues amount = $20.00 per year. Please write all checks out to Overmountain Brewers. Thank you, Donna On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Wild Child <wildchild75@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Overmountain Brewers! I just wanted to remind everyone there is the December 2014 Meeting on this coming Monday at Bonefire. Hope you have been able to brew lots and lots! At the meeting we will be focusing on the filling out of a BJCP Score sheet and judging a beer. Hope you have brewed or will be the first up comp beer for 2015. As a reminder I have re-listed the information from a previous email to the club below, and have listed some homework if you can review before our meeting. Additionally, the nominations for officers were made. The Nominees for the 2015 panel of officers are: President - Donna Dingus Vice President - Ben Cowan Treasurer - John Kelly Secretary - Membership Director - Justen Dick As you can see we did not have a Secretary nominated for this year. If you are interested or have a nominee who would be able to attend all meetings to take notes, please let us know before or at the meeting. Otherwise this hat will be shared with another office. Now for the homework in order to prepare for Monday's meeting. I am including various links that can be found on the BJCP site. These would be great for you to review before the meeting. How to judge a beer: http://www.bjcp.org/docs/How_to_Judge_Beer.pdf Scoresheet Coversheet: http://www.bjcp.org/docs/SCP_CoverSheet.pdf Beer Scoresheet: http://www.bjcp.org/docs/SCP_BeerScoreSheet.pdf Simple Beer Checklist: http://www.bjcp.org/docs/Beer_checklist.pdf Simple Beer Checklist instructions: <http://www.bjcp.org/docs/Checklist_instructions.pdf> http://www.bjcp.org/docs/Checklist_instructions.pdf If you know someone interested in craft brewing of any kind bring them along and introduce them to this great hobby and our club. Meeting Info: Date: Monday, December 8, 2014 Time: 7:00 pm EST Location: Bonefire Smokehouse at the Hardware, 260 West Main St. in Abingdon VA Hope to see you there. Thank you, Donna Dingus _________________________________________________________ From a previous email: 2015 Club Only BJCP Competitions During the November 2014 meeting there was a large amount of discussion around how BJCP competitions are judged and how one learns to judge. In order to fully examine these questions we have decided that we will be doing Club Only BJCP comps in 2015. These comps are going to be planned for every other month and we will be judging/discussing the style as part of the meetings. To prepare for this adventure, in the December meeting we will be discussing a BCJP score sheet and seeing how judging is actually done. We encourage members to brew the selected style, and on the set comp days, participate in the judging of the beers 'entered' into the comp. These comps will also help members focus on styles that they may not typically brew. We want everyone in the club to understand the judging process and to participate as they can either by entering, judging, or both if possible. Each person interested in learning to judge a BJCP comp will be paired up with an experienced judge. This is to be a learning experience, so if you brew a style, please try to limit your beer's exposure to other club members in order to keep it as anonymous as possible. Entries must be in standard capped 12 oz brown glass bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. John Kelly will be the person coordinating the beers and entry numbers, so upon arriving at the set meeting, provide him with your entries. You must declare the style category your beer is to be entered in. John McGill will serve as the Steward, and will be receiving the beer from John Kelly and then providing it to the judges as they select the order. The first two styles are as follows and we will discuss what is upcoming at the December meeting: Jan 12, 2015 10 American Ale 10A – American Pale Ale 10B – American Amber Ale 10C – American Brown Ale March 9, 2015 12 Porter 12A – Brown Porter 12B – Robust Porter 12C – Baltic Porter If you would like to view information related to these styles please see the style guidelines at this following hyperlink: http://www.bjcp.org/stylecenter.php If you have any questions about the 2015 BJCP Club Only Competitions, please let me know.