Portland Mashing Maineiacs

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If you are interested in running for one of the Steering Committee positions, email Brian Hall to say which one you would like to run for. Be sure to include a couple of sentences about who you are and why you would like to have the position.

The deadline for entering the election is February 25.

The election will be conducted in early March, and the results will be announced at the March club meeting.

Good luck to all those who are running!

Additional Information:

Voting:  From our charter:  Only dues-paying active members are
eligible to vote or run for the committee.  If you would like to
become an active member, $20 to the club will do it.  We renew every
Octoberfest so anyone has paid since we started collecting dues is
good at this point.

Current committee members (as of November 2013):  Chuck Warner, Andy
Souza, Gregg Carine, Brian Hall, Greg Worster, Brian Farrell.

The positions are as follows:

(1) Meeting Director
(2) Membership Director
(3) Treasurer*
(4) Sensory Evaluation Educator
(5) Webmaster & Communications Director
(6) Public Relations Coordinator (also responsible for procuring
merchandise & equipment)
(7) Special Function Coordinator.

(**if someone wants to help with Treasurer, awesome, however we are
not changing the name on our club account so Gregg C. and Chuck will
remain assisting with moving money)

A quick note on upcoming events and dates…

- Dec Club Meeting – Thursday, December 19, 5:00-8:00 PM at the Snow Squall Restaurant in South Portland.
- Jan Club Meeting – Sunday, January 26, 2:00 PM at Craig Dilger’s house in Portland.
- Jan 29 – Last day to enter Mashing Maineiacs Ground Hog Day 2014 Homebrew Competition.  Registration opens on Dec 1.
- Feb 1-2 – Judging will take place for next homebrew competition.
- Feb Club Meeting – Sunday, Feb 23 at Chuck Warner’s House in South Portland.  Awards presented to competition winners.

- March:  (1)  Elections for the club committee are tentatively to be held (electronically) in March.  More info to follow.   Contact a member of the current club steering committee if you are interested in running.  (2) Time to brew the Oktoberfest bier!  Group Brew Day to be hosted by Brian Hall.  Date TBD.

Save the date… The next club meeting will be on Sunday, November 24, at 2:00 PM. Location is TBD.

The October meeting will be held on Sunday, Oct 27, at 3:00 PM at Bill Lamb’s house in Portland. Watch for emails with directions and more details.

The August meeting will be held on Saturday, Aug 24, at 2:00 PM at Bret Barker’s house.  Watch for emails with directions and more details.  Also see the club’s Facebook page.

The meeting theme will be a last hurrah for Summer brews.  If you have any summer-style homebrew remaining, be sure to bring some along.  Hope to see you there!

The June homebrew club meeting will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013, at 2:00 PM at the Erick Hagmann’s house.  Watch for an email with directions and more details.

Mark your calendars…  The next club meeting will be on Saturday, July 27, at 2:00 PM at Chris Falk’s house.  Look for an email with address and directions as we get closer to the meeting date.  As always, bring homebrew or commercial beer to sample.  Also bring a glass, and something to throw on the grill or munchies.  You may also want to bring a camp chair or lawn chair.  Hope to see you there!

Our club is going to the AHA Conference at the end of this month!!  We are also serving beer at Club night as well as the events Social Club night. The club could use a donation of a few more kegs just so we have enough. If you have a keg of some great beer that we could bring down it would be much appreciated, also, you as the brewer would get full credit for brewing it. Also, all the big names in homebrewing will be sampling your beer, if that means anything to you.

More photos, once again – not enough were taken, but more next time for sure.

So much grain to mill, so much milling about to do.

Skip ahead a half-an-hour and someone decides to pour the grain into the HLT.

Jake’s meager 10 gallon pot mashed in and waiting.

Mashing in and pull gains out, Brian’s got the beard for the job.

So much grain, so many good smells.

Whole leaf hops going into the Oktoberfest boil

Sorry I didn’t get any of the havoc that was the cooling phase, or of Greg W’s oat smoked malt Gratzer. It was a fantastic brew day and was glad those who could make it out did. Thanks to all. We’ll taste and drink come September.

There are a few more pics on the Brew Days page. ‎

The next club meeting will be on Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM at Chuck Warner’s house in South Portland.

Come sample beer and discuss beer and brewing.  As always, bring a glass and some homebrew or commercial beer to share and snacks if you like.

We will be starting to hold a brief and informal BJCP “style of the month” discussion at monthly meetings.  This month’s discussion will be led by Andy Souza, and the style will be Doppelbock.

Hope to see you at the meeting!