High Plains Drafters
Homebrew Club
Cheyenne, Wyoming USA

Meetings: 1st Wednesday of every month, 7:00pm at Uncle Charlie's in Cheyenne
Dues: $15/year single, $20/year per couple
Brent Wickham........President
Bill Briggs................Vice President - share Education
Brian Mertz.............Vice President - and Competitions
Dick Oster..............Treasurer
Michael Hendrix......Secretary
Paul Dey..................Historian
August 6, 2008 Meeting notes...
Convened at Uncle Charlie’s at 7:00 PM.

“My Last Beer”   Richard B. is working on a Maudite inspired Belgian ale with a British ale/Australian Dark Lager background. Bill has an IPA in the fermenter that filled the room with hop aroma during blow-off. Gus is brewing a Milk Stout.

Beer First!  Beer of the Month: Bill brought in 8 Seconds second and third place beers, based on scores. Vienna Lager, So.Eng.Brown Ale, Pumpkin Spiced Ale, Irish Red Ale, Std.American Lager, California Common, Baltic Porter, American Pale Ale, Hefeweizen w/ Peach wood smoked 2-Row, Roggenbier, another California Common, and an English Pale Ale. We also sampled Bill's Chiswick Bitter from Big Brew Day, a third place winner.   September is Chris with Beers from New England, October is Steve, beer TBD, November is Paul's turn, beer still TBD.
Club Only Competitions  October 11th  is Imperial versions of any beer. IPA's in November. Remember club entry of your beer wins you 50 bucks!

Volunteer for BOTM via the listserver, for any available meeting or style. First one to speak up gets first choice.

Treasurers Report: Was at $1081.63, with receipts and expenditure so far for 8 Seconds, is now $1586.98. There are a few more expenses to pay for the competition, like the ribbons, postage for mailing score sheets, gas money for Brian picking up all the entries (voted for 10-1 a the meeting), and other incidentals. After that, we will probably be right back where we started, around $1050.00.

New Business: 
Flyers have been put up at several places by members. Brent is going to check on listing in the clubs column in the paper again.
We voted to sponsor a club only competition , the first available date looks like 2011.
Reschedule a Rockies game for later this summer.

Upcoming Events:  
Steinley Cup Festival for Wyoming Breweries is in Saratoga on August 16th. Brent has places nearby to camp.
Orris is having a Harvest Ale brew-in whenever the hops are ripe, August 23rd is now the date.
There will be an Oktoberfest themed informal competiton at F.E.Warren NCO club on September 26th. Plan a beer or two for this one, last year was a good time even with only 5 brewers.
Holiday Hop/Stop is Saturday December 6th, tentatively at Paul's house, but the possibility of more than one house and a bus are being discussed.
Plan on club participation in Mead Day in Boulder next February. Several members expressed interest in this event.
Eight Seconds of Froth for 2009 will be back to a spring date and in Cheyenne.

Eight Seconds of Froth and Mugshot Challenge:   This year's Eight Seconds was a great success, thanks to the hard work of our volunteers and Altitude Chophouse and Brewery. We judged 187 beers, meads and ciders in 21 categories. Entries were received from all around the country, from as far away as Pennsylvania and Florida. This year's winners list is available at http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/08Winners.html  

Also, 2008 was the fourth year of our Ace of Clubs competition within a competition, this year with our first second-time winner, KROC . Homebrew clubs are awarded points for total number of entries and judges, and for all top three finishes by their members in each category and BOS. Winning club receives a travelling trophy plus other goodies. The winning club keeps the trophy for the year and then returns it at next year's Dredhop to be made ready for the upcoming Eight Seconds of Froth and Ace of Clubs competitions.

Points are awarded as follows:
Each entry gets your club      1 Point
Each Judge gets your club     1 Point
Each Steward gets your club 1 Point
1st Place in a category gets   5 Points
2nd Place in a ctaegory gets  3 Points
3rd Place in a category gets   2 Points
Best Of Show gets                5 Points
Tell your members to be sure to list the club name on the entry. Only one club per entry. No Club=No Credit.

The following businesses have helped make this competiton happen. Please support them as well.
Depot Street Merchants
Altitude Chophouse and Brewery  http://www.altitudechophouse.com/
White Labs  http://www.whitelabs.com
Briess Malt & Ingredients Co.  http://www.briess.com/brew/products.shtml
Wyeast Laboratories, Inc.  http://www.wyeastlab.com
Widmer Bros. Brewery  http://www.widmer.com
Odell Brewing Co. http://www.odells.com/
L.D. Carlson Co.  http://www.ldcarlson.com/
Five Star Chemicals  http://www.fivestarchemicals.com/
Snake River Brewing  http://www.snakeriverbrewing.com/

Remember that the AHA is promoting a program in which members can get discounts at places like the Rock Bottom in Denver. You must show your AHA card to get a discount on food or beer.

Next meeting is on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 7:00 pm at Uncle Charlies.

 E-Mail listserver:
We have an e-mail list for club members to exchange ideas, recipes, or any club or brewing related information. Simply send an E-Mail message to drafters@yahoogroups.com and it will automatically be sent to everyone's mailbox. Replies also goto evreyone and anyone can reply to any message they want to. You can also go to http://www.yahoogoups.com/list/drafters/ to view all the messages on the list and/or join. You can join by sending an e-mail to: drafters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com , (drafters-unsubscribe works to get off of the list). Maybe this will stimulate more open discussion among members and generate some ideas for events and ways to improve our club. Steve Papenfuss will also be sending meeting minutes this way to those who subscribe.

 E-Mail addresses and club links:
Brent Wickham, ogre@bresnan.net
Brian Mertz,   windywy@aol.com
Paul Dey,   beerman@myxmail.net
Richard Mincer,   rmincer@hirstapplegate.com
Michael Hendrix,  weremichael@gmail.com
Bill Briggs,   bbriggs@vcn.com
Dick Oster,  ROster69@aol.com
Web Page (Home) http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/drafters.html
  (8 Seconds)     http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/8seconds.html
  (Judges)         http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/8secjudg.html
  (Entry page)   http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/8sec_ent.html
  (Winners List) http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/2004Winners.html


BrewLinks

American Homebrewers Association Contest calendar, style guidelines, etc...
Real Beer Page and we all like real beer, right?
Beer Judge CertificationProgram become a certified judge
WWW Virtual Libarary:Beer and Brewing a good source of info



Questions? Comments... E-mail me at: bbriggs@vcn.com

Last updated August 14, 2008  08:38:45 MST

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