January 2017 – Meeting Minutes
Hi Everyone,
Again – I’d like to thank you all for a fantastic meeting at the Tied House on Tuesday. I know the weather and seasonal bugs kept a lot of people away, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of you in February.
Here’s the takeaway from the meeting, I have the agenda with notes at the end of the email:
- Dues are due – $25 for individuals, $35 for families, we don’t accept paypal yet, but we will be able to after completing the transition to a 501c.
- February meeting will moved to 2/21 to avoid Valentines Day. It will also be at Will and Owens place, which is near to the Tied House. The Tied House is a great venue with a lot of good things going for it, but the noise level can be prohibitive to productive meetings, especially as we grow membership.
- 2017 Officers!
- President – John W.
- Vice President – Alvaro Garcia de Gorordo
- Secretary – Brian Schar
- Treasurer – Scott Satterthwaite
- Education VPs – Dwignt Mulcahy & Rob Conticello
- Events VP – Jim Schmalzried
- Competition VP – Jon Kissinger
- Digital Presence – Scott Angel, Bart Pichola and Lincoln Ong
- Membership VP – [OPEN]
- Shirts!
- We’re doing shirts – T Shirts will be subsidized, and work shirts will be available for purchase
- NCHF Planning Team
- Overall – Jim S.
- Booth Design/Presentation – [OPEN]
- Lights – Bobby
- Food – [OPEN]
- NHC
- We are going, but its likely we won’t be going in enough numbers to fully participate in hospitality or have a club night booth. However, we might be able to get a few kegs there and get some guest taps at another clubs booth.
- Education Track – like to largely be re-presenting talks given at previous NCHs
- Broken Hydrometer – Camping Theme
- More Beer Winter Sale – we’re going to coordinate with them to do the brew in
- Brew Ins!
- Members are encouraged to mail out to the team when they’re having a brew day if they’re open to having courteous and knowledgeable guests.
- Scott Angel is brewing on Sunday
- Club members that are open to hosting a Brew In:
- Suzie (?)
- Scott Angel
- John W.
- Owen & Will
- Alvaro
- Brew in at a Brewery!
- Members are encouraged to mail out to the team when they’re having a brew day if they’re open to having courteous and knowledgeable guests.
Here’s the raw annotated agenda :
WOW Agenda – 2017-01-10
Meeting at Tied House – 954 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041 (650) 965-2739
- 6:30 – 7:00 – Social Hour
- 7:00 – 7:30 – What’s Brewing?
- Roundtable for people to announce what they’re brewing, racking or bottling or plan to brew in the next month. Requests for brewing buddies!
- 7:30 – 8:30 – Business Meeting
- Welcome everyone – greet visitors and new members
- Dues are Due – $25 for Individual, $35 for Family
- When will we start to accept PayPay
- Need to be a 501c
- Feb Meeting will be moved to 2/21 so you can have Valentine’s Day
- Officer Selection
- 2016 Officers
- President – John Wheeler
- Vice President – Kurt Hollar (aka Sweater Guy)
- Secretary – Brian Schar
- Treasurer – Scott Satterthwaite
- Education VP – Dwignt Mulcahy & Rob Conticello
- Events VP – Suzie Nguyen
- Competition VP – Jon Kissinger
- Digital Presence VP – Bart Pichola & Lincoln Ong
- Membership VP – Dave Messink
- 2017 Officer Descriptions – https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yfAbBIx397pW887AH1z09uaOEfvuPWjmgJ_N1vA3KQ/edit?usp=sharing
- President – John W
- The President is responsible for the general running of the club. They preside over both the Club and the Officer meetings, and are responsible for the agenda, and timely running of the meeting. The President is also generally responsible for making sure everything happens.
- Vice President – Alvaro
- The Vice President is responsible for stepping in and assisting the President as needed. In addition the Vice President is responsible for the “Beer of the Month”.
- Secretary – Brian S.
- The Secretary is responsible for taking meeting notes for the General and Officers meetings, and sending them out in a timely fashion.
- Treasurer – Scott S.
- The Treasurer is responsible for collecting and recording dues, providing reimbursement for purchases made on the club’s behalf, providing guidance on funding requests and providing an annual statement at the end of the year.
- Education VP – Rob & Dwight
- The Education VP is responsible for the continuing education of the club. Each meeting they will provide a presentation for the “Education Track”. The position of Education VP may be held by a group of people jointly, or by one VP with several assistants.
- Events VP – Jim S.
- The Events VP is overall responsible for all club events. This includes 4 stumbles, NHC, NCHF and the holiday party. The Events VP does not have to be directly responsible, with specific coordinators for specific events as needed, but they will be chairing over all events.
- Competition VP – Jon K.
- The Competition VP is responsible for keeping the club informed and prepared for all local and major competitions. This includes the award status from prior competitions, what competitions are imminent and what competitions the club should be preparing for.
- Digital Presence VP – Scott Angel, Bart & Lincoln
- The Digital Presence VP is responsible for the club website, domain hosting and email system. This includes responding to mailing list membership requests, maintaining and updating our website, and ensuring that we retain our domain registration.
- Membership VP – [OPEN]
- The Membership VP is responsible for maintaining the membership of the club. This includes greeting visitors and new members at the beginning of the meeting during social hour, and taking role at the meetings. Additionally they are responsible for reaching out to visitors and members who have been absent from meetings.
- 8:30 – 9:00 – Discussion for the year
- Club T Shirt
- Club Camp Shirt (Grey & Yellow)
- NCHF Planning Team
- Overall – Jim S.
- Merit badges for beer
- Scout Uniforms
- Booth Design/Presentation (Camp Beer)
- Bobby – Lights
- Design – Open
- Food
- Ask Alan & Jenny
- Overall – Jim S.
- NHC Planning
- Going? At least 3-4 people
- Do we bring beer? – no
- Hospitality?
- Club night?
- Day trips to nearby breweries/pubs
- Travel Coordination
- Education Track Suggestions
- Water!
- Brew in a Bag
- Lagering & Quick Lagering Techniques
- Yeast
- Sanitation
- Intentional Souring
- Sake
- Ancient Beers
- Malting how it’s done and how to do it
- Hops
- Calendar Events
- NHC Minneapolis MN, June 16-17
- Going & Not Going?
- SF Beer Week – www.sfbeerweek.org Feb 10 – Feb 19.
- SV Beer Week – http://www.svbeerweek.com/ –July21 – 28
- Firefighters MD Charity Competition – August
- First Meeting is coming up
- Need Brain Dump from Jon and Myra
- Freewheel Battle of the Brews – Feb 12, 11-4pm
- Style is 17b, old ale
- We’re In – do a smaller version of the old ale
- Broken Hydrometer
- What will this year’s challenge be? Candy?
- Cereal
- Wood
- Smoke, Marshmallows, or grahamcrackers
- Camping Theemed
- ‘pancake beer’
- What will this year’s challenge be? Candy?
- NCHF
- MoreBeer – Coordinate with More Beer for Winter Sale
- Summer Sale
- Winter Sale
- Brew In Schedules:
- Who is open to an “open” brew day where people can drop by to brew with you
- Many People, let’s start sending out invites
- Scott Angel is brewing next weekend (probably Sunday – starting at 11am)
- Who could host several other brewers in their front/back yard?
- Suzie
- Scott Angel
- John W.
- Owen & Will
- Alvaro
- Who is open to an “open” brew day where people can drop by to brew with you
- Swap Meet
- Food & Beer Pairing
- Firestone Walker Festival –First weekend in June, tickets on sale Feb 1
- Club Brew In at a Brewery
- Los Gatos
- Santa Clara Brewing
- Meeting and Will and Owens
- February Meeting (Feb 21)
- Additional Ideas:
- Hop ‘challenge’
- Base beer with different hops
- DR Beer/Sensory beer
- Order a new kit?
- Mystery Beer
- Hop ‘challenge’
- NHC Minneapolis MN, June 16-17
- Beer of the Month Calendar
- February –
- March –
- May –
- June –
- July –
- August –
- September –
- October –
- November –
- December –