Central Arkansas Fermenters June 2026 at Professor Bowl
- Call to meeting
- Bonz opens meeting
- Social Events Report- Kesha
- July Meeting will be 7/9 at Point Remove
- August Meeting will be 8/13 at Rogue Roundabout
- September Meeting will be 9/10 TBD
- October Meeting will be 10/8 at Professor Bowl
- Meeting place issues
- Places not allowing homebrew, conflicts with events
- Professor Bowl will be default meeting place
- Happy hour ends at 7 so please come in early to take advantage of that
- Cheaper on the club for happy hour prices
- Please bring your homebrew so everyone can try it!
- Pro Am breweries will host for that month
- Competitions Report- Luke
- May results with West Coast Pilsner
- 3rd Bo Bennet
- 2nd English and Wood
- 1st Zach and Tyler
- Cereal beers will be judged at Luke’s house, not at Professor Bowl
- July is Altbier with Point Remove
- Turn in entries there and they will judge them
- August is Czech Pale at Rogue Roundabout
- NOT PREMIUM
- State Fair
- June 27th is open for entries
- July 22nd to August 5th for shipping/dropping off
- Drop off may be at Luke’s house
- Can bring to meetings during drop off window
- Sorting day is tentatively August 8th at Brian’s house
- The more the people, the better and easier for everyone
- Food will be provided
- Judging dates are August 22nd and August 29th
- Please come help judge
- Even if it is first time judging, you will be partnered with experienced judgers
- BJCP tasting exam
- Weekend before Thanksgiving—11/21
- Exam is for beer only
- Getting judges coming in to proctor
- May results with West Coast Pilsner
- Education Report- Brian
- Education of the day is Czech Pale
- Hosting classes 3rd Thursday at 5:30pm at Professor Bowl for BJCP judging practice
- June’s meeting will be the 4th Thursday
- May’s meeting only had Bonz and Andy showing up
- Master Homebrewer Program
- Group for achievements and resources for brewing
- Can join at no cost to you
- Go to the website to sign up and site CAF as homebrew club
- Secretary’s Report- Diana
- Welcome back returnees
- At Officer’s meeting
- BJCP tasting exam for beer–DON’T FORGET TO DO WRITTEN EXAM FOR BEER
- Little Rocktoberfest
- Charity so far is Providence Park or maybe Women Own Worth
- Treasurer’s Report- Joe
- 8075$ in the bank right now
- New Business
- Jack from Root Cafe
- June 20th at Farmer’s Market
- Asking for homebrewers to come out and demonstrate how to make homebrew
- Will figure out electricity and water
- Bring out the big tent for everyone to hang out under
- Contact Bonz for more information and to come out
- Ian’s report
- July 10th is HAM Hop Off
- Jack from Root Cafe
- Little Rocktoberfest
- Sorry for repeating, but always will for new faces
- It will be 10/10 at Argenta Plaza
- Not officially partnered with Dogtown Throwdown, but will be happening same day
- There is construction going on currently at the site
- Should be done by time of event
- Tickets will be going live when Brian comes back at end of June
- Go through Yapsody
- Money will be available immediately for club to use to help pay
- Go through Yapsody
- North Little Rock Wyndham have rooms blocked off
- Days are from Thursday to Sunday
- Link to come soon
- Commercial breweries
- Getting a new brewery from Colorado- Outlaw
- Brian is working on homebrew sign ups
- Little Rocktoberfest website has been updated
- Info will be shared there
- Will be updated as commercial and homebrew sign ups
- Top of website menu bar—Homebrew sign up to serve
- Same format for set up as last year
- Commercial-Homebrew-Commercial-Homebrew
- Food trucks
- 870 smoke and Tacos El Gordo ran out of food last year
- This year, we have Tacos El Gordo, Norfork Brewery (Pizza), 870 Smoke, and Dessert Lab
- Brian is working on QR code for voting instead of chips
- Work in progress
- Not guaranteed
- Charity
- Providence Park had a representative come out last month
- Making a tiny home community for the chronic homeless people
- Only for Pulaski County
- Last year was Women Own Worth
- Voting for charity is PROVIDENCE PARK
- Providence Park had a representative come out last month
- Nancy is volunteering to be the Volunteer Coordinator this year
- Sierra–OFFICIAL Social Media Coordinator
- Expenses
- Still need Security, Tables, Ice, etc
- Have not paid for these other expenses yet
- Charity check
- Can’t do as much as previous years
- Pre-Covid had revenue close to 40k
- Post-Covid had revenue close to 15k
- Revenue generators for the club
- Membership
- Little Rocktoberfest
- Closing of Meeting
- Motion to close Bo, Luke
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