Monthly Archives: August 2013

September Meeting

It’s the beginning of a new SODZ year, and with that comes the September meeting.

When

Monday, September 16 2013
7pm

Where

Seventh Son Brewery
1101 N 4th St
Columbus, OH 43201


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Food

Be sure to eat before you come as Seventh Son doesn’t have food.

Agenda

Along with the normal club business, we’ll get to hear from these folks:

  • Gautam Bagchi will be talking about our new club competition.
  • Bethia Wolf and Jim Ellison will be talking about their Brew Adventures tours.
  • The owner(s)/brewer(s) from Seventh Son will be talking about breweries/brewing beer and stuff.

Club Competition

The first in a series of our new club competition starts at this meeting. To rehash what Gautam already sent out, the competition is limited to members in good standing. Each member can submit one entry that can be in any BJCP category. A minimum of 24oz (2 12 oz bottles, 1 bomber 22-24 oz bottle or 1 growler) is required to do the judging. The competition is limited to 16 entries and the winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to a local homebrew shop. This members-only competition is also part of our larger “Brewer of the Year” competition where members will receive points for placing beers in the members-only competitions, larger club competitions (Beer for Boobs and British Beer Festival), Lucci Cup and Iron Kettle. The points will be tracked on our website so that you can see where you stand compared to other brewers and at the end of the year the brewer with the most points will receive another gift certificate and the title of “Brewer of the Year”.

September Club Competition is now closed.

Work Shirts

If you ordered a SODZ work shirt I will have the box at the meeting.

Support Your Local Brew Clubs

I just wanted to let everyone know about several competitions coming up this fall held by various Ohio clubs:

  • First up is Dayton Brewfest on Saturday September 14th.  Entry deadline is next Wednesday, so hurry and get your entries in. 
  • On October 19th is CMI’s annual Oktobersbest.  This has an entries limit of 325 and they are over half way there. 
  • Next up is our big event, Beer for Boobs, on November 9th.  Registration opens on September 1st.  We are planning a fun and entertaining weekend this year.  Stay tuned for details on this event. 
  • Finally, the SNOBs in Cleveland will have their annual Son of Brewzilla competition on November 23rd, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  This competition also has an entry limit, so do not miss out.

All of these events needs volunteers to be succesful.  We get a lot of help from each of these clubs for our events, so I’d encourage EVERYone to look at your calendar and see if you can help as a judge or steward at one of these events.  First time judges are always welcome.  You will have a good time.

Happy brewing!

Bill