08 June 2023, Club Meeting @ 6:30pm

Our Host - Pirate's Cove Restaurant

Chesapeake, VA

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We want to thank John and the Pirate's Cove staff for once again hosting our June meeting. Make sure you grab some food and drinks to support them.

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We want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. We have no new members since our last meeting

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Tonight’s Raffle:

50/50 raffle as usual plus some donated craft beers and craft beer glasses.

 

Club’s Barrel Program:

• On the funky side, the Virginia Lambic has been voted on to be pulled out of its barrel.

  • Vote is in to pull the Vambic

  • Vote is in for next brew to be a Flanders Red

    • Joe has a recipe from Tim Rouse and is waiting on a time line decision​

    • This barrel will remain at AHS

• The current barrel that last housed Wee Heavy v3

  • THIS BARREL IS FOR SALE! - $50

• Imperial Red into the Tarnished Truth barrel

  • Paul Wilson's Imperial Irish Red recipe is in the barrel

  • Barrel fill date was 30 April 2023

  • Empty date is set for Saturday 17 June 2023 @ Noon at AHS. All Irish Red brewers should be on hand, or send a sanitized keg to be filled if you cannot attend.

• Barrel Cider into the Tarnished Truth barrel

  • Brew by date is NOW​

  • Barrel fill date is 17 June 2023 after the Red comes out

  • All cider brewers should be on hand with their cider share or drop your keg of cider to Raf at AHS prior to fill date by noon

• Update on the 60 gallon port barrel from A. Smith Bowman

  • Double barrel experimental brew​​​

    • no style yet - but possibly a stout to go from port to bourbon barrel​​

    • target date TBA

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If you would like to be a part of our barrel brewer program, let Joe or Brian know and we will get you on the list of barrel brewers for upcoming barrel fills. We also have a separate Facebook group for the barrel fill brewers.

 

Joe has proposed we start a shared brew calendar for 7CB members. It will be an app. It will be free. We will use it to share our meetings, social events, and group brew days. You will also be able to create events on this calendar if you'd like to open up your own brew day to other club members.
 

Treasurer’s Report:
Paul gives treasurer's report.

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New 7CB sample glasses are in. Cost is $5 a piece. Please reach out to Paul.

7CB tan hat for sale - $20.

  IF YOU'D LIKE TO ORDER 7CB SWAG - please see Paul for the catalog and order form.

 

Homebrew Competitions:

Hampton Roads Brewers Cup

 

January 2023 Cellar Cleaner results:

            1st Place – Elisha Logan (VPH) NEIPA

            2nd Place – John Wallace (7CB) Imperial Breakfast Stout

            3rd Place – Ryan Griffis (7CB) Oatmeal Porter

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March 2023 Irish Red (15A) and Irish Stout (15B) results:

            1st Place - Matt Campo (VPH)

            2nd Place - Jonathan Jones (VPH)

            3rd Place - John and Kate Keesee (HRBTS)

 

May 2023 Munich Dunkel (8A), Weissbier (10A), & Saison (25B) results:

            1st Place - John Wallace (7CB) Weissbier

            2nd Place - Mich Kline (HRBTS) Saison

            3rd Place - Jeremiah Sill (HRBTS) Saison

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19 July 2023 @ Brew & Bottle

          11A, 11B, or 11C: British Bitter

          18B: American Pale Ale

Entry forms due by 18 July 2023

Bottle drop off by 15 July 2023 before noon to Brew & Bottle or AHS

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20 September 2023 @ American Homebrew Supply

          6A: Marzen

          Sours

Entry forms due by 19 September 2023

Bottle drop off by 16 September 2023 before noon to Brew & Bottle or AHS

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15 November 2023 @ Brew and Bottle

          26C: Belgian Triple

          30C: Winter Seasonal

Entry forms due by 14 November 2023

Bottle drop off by 11 November 2023 before noon to Brew & Bottle or AHS

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Homebrew Con 2023

San Diego. June 22-24, 2023

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30th Annual Dominion Cup

Registration and bottle entry July 1 - 22, 2023

Competition August 8-12, 2023

Find all details on their website.

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North Carolina Homebrew Invitational 2023

7CB was invited and is signed up to participate in this event. We will need brewers to help run the booth and provide kegs (we need 6 to 10) for the event. There are awards - so let's put our best brews on tap!

Event date: 21 October 2023

Location: GreenLife Family Farms in Concord, NC

There are camping and RV options available on site.

Find all details here on their website.

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Seven City Brewer of the Year Award:

Please make sure that you are reporting all of your competition entries, judging or stewarding sessions in order to acquire points towards the Brewer of the Year for 2023.

We have a shiney new trophy now!

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7CB Officer - Club News:

As you may or may not know Tim Woodard and his family have moved out of town. So he is unable to fulfill the rest of his 7CB Vice Presidential duties. Brandon and Carla Christian have been nominated to handle the VP duties (as a team) for the remainder of our year.

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If there are no objections, Brandon and Carla will immediately assume their responsibilities.

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NO OBJECTIONS. Let's all welcome Brandon and Carla officially as our new 7CB co-VPs.

 

7CB Upcoming Events:

• 7CB Social Hour​

  • No homebrew to share - just to talk about.​

  • Friday, 23 June 2023 @ 6:30pm

  • Three Notch'd Brewing @ The Town Center of Virginia Beach

• July 7CB Monthly Meeting

  • Thursday, 13 July 2023 @ 6:30pm​

  • Location TBA

• Summer Beer Fest 2023

  • Saturday, 22 July 2023 @ 11am - 5pm​

  • Joe Luchansky's backyard/brewhouse

  • Lager, Ale, Cider competition to be held this day with a Best in Show also to be voted on. There will be a trophy!

  • Joe will be grilling. All other members attending please bring food to share - and your best lagers, ales, and/or cider homebrews.

  • We will have a FB post and email going around for people to list their food contributions and which/how many beers they will be entering into the competition.

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Education:

KEEP YOUR GEAR AND WORK SPACE CLEAN!!!!!!

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Cleaning and sanitation tips as well as the effects of poor cleanliness controls in the brewhouse. Brian McCrickard gave a shortened (as we were running out of time before close of the restaurant) talk on sanitation. He has some great resources available on the web that he will share with you - just ask!

 

7CB In-house Competition:

24A: Belgian Wit to be sampled by the club and voted on. Guess who won...Paul Wilson in a run away contest of two entries.

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Meeting attendees voted on their favorite brew with a ranking system of 1 through 10, with the score of 10 being a perfect example of a Belgian Wit. The scores were tallied tonight and it was Paul again. Stay tuned for more information on the next in-house competition.

 

Raffle Results:

Our new VP's took home the 50/50 raffle. Just about everyone else won some craft beer or beer glasses in the rest of the raffle.

Big thanks to Joe Luchansky and Brian McCrickard for all of their raffle donations.

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Open Discussion:

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NEXT MEETING - 13 JULY 2023 18:30 @ RedWood Smoke Shack - Norfolk, VA

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