Mashing Maineiacs

The next meeting will be held on Sunday, Feb 28, at 2:00 PM at the home of Chuck Warner in South Portland.  Hope to see you there!

Our annual homebrew competition is now open for registration.  For details, see the competition site at the following link.

http://competition.portlandmashingmaineiacs.com/

We are looking for volunteers to be stewards and judges.  If you are interested, please go to the competition site and sign up.

The next homebrew club meeting will be held on Sunday, November 23, at 2:00 PM at the home of club member Jerramy Doughty.  As usual, bring some homebrew or commercial beer to share, some munchies if you like, and a glass for sampling.

Everyone is welcome at monthly meetings.  You need not be an experienced brewer or dues-paying club member.

The next meeting will be on Sunday, July 27, 2:00 PM at Bret Barker’s house.  See email for Bret’s address.

Agenda will include a discussion of Saisons lead by Gregg Carine.  If you have a homebrewed versions of Saison, please bring it along.

Hope to see you there!

Save the date…  The next meeting will be during the weekend of June 28-29.  More details to follow soon.

The May 2014 Club meeting will be held on Saturday, May 17th, at 5:00 PM at Andy Souza’s House in South Portland.

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)

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!