In this edition: SAAZ Holiday Party VOTE – Officer Elections Intraclub Brew Challenge Upcoming Events 2016 Dues Competitions Bottoms Up Beer Run SAAZ Library Feedback/Contact Us

SAAZ Platinum Sponsor

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 SAAZ Holiday Party

Saturday, December 5th @ 5pm

Jill, Larry and Princess Sophia Vita’s House

Titusville – for directions email president@saaz.org

Celebrate the holidays with all your friends from SAAZ.

Larry and Jill are supplying the turkey and ham, bring a side dish to share!

Bring special beers or homebrew to share. We will have the beer engine to hook up your keg of amazing homebrew! Bring your beer so we can drink it and tell you how awesome it is 🙂

We have the annual bottle swap – if you want to participate, bring a WRAPPED BOMBER of commercial beer. 

Need directions??? Email president@saaz.org

Important Business at the SAAZ Holiday Party

2015 Officer Elections 

Time to renew your membership for 2016 and get your new cards! Don’t forget your $$$ to pay your 2016 dues and continue to be a member of this amazing homebrew club .

This event is free for members. Guests are just $5 or just become a member $20 individual/$30 family.

VOTE – 2016 SAAZ Officer Elections

2015 SAAZ Officer Ballot – nominations will be accepted in person at the party or can be submitted to Dan.

President – Dan Shirah

1st VP –

2nd VP – Dan Markey

Secretary – Ryan Kaestner

Treasurer – Sean Gregg

Newsletter Editor – Anne Gregg

Librarian – Susie Markey

 

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SAAZ Intraclub Brew Challenge

SAAZ has starting a quarterly Intraclub Brew Challenge. We would like to encourage more brewing in the club and provide more feedback to our brewers. Each quarter the club will announce the challenge ingredient/style and requirements.

RULES:

1) Must be a current SAAZ Member with 2016 Dues paid.

2) Sign-up for the challenge at a meeting – General or Officer. The supplies for each challenge are limited and to keep things fair for all we will not accept sign-ups at any other time.

3) Must pick up special ingredient at a SAAZ Meeting (General or Officer), we will not make special arrangements to deliver items.

4) Bring 6 – 12 oz bottles or a 64 oz growler of your beer to the designated meeting for judging.

5) SAAZ will provide a prize for the winner of the challenge. We also encourage you to enter into upcoming homebrew competitions to win even more!

6) If you fail to participate in a challenge it will affect your ability to partake in future challenges.

CHALLENGE #1 – HOPPY NEW YEAR! 

ALMOST FULL, ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT!!!

Pay your dues, sign up and schedule your brew day!

***Make sure your brew is ready for the January Meeting***

Remember the goal of the challenge is to feature the Dr. Rudi hops in your brew. The winner will be selected by a panel of BJCP Judges.

 

CHALLENGE #2 – Bean Me Up Scotty

Starting in January we will be giving brewers up to 4oz of coffee from Indian River Coffee to use creatively in your next brew. There are no restrictions, just feature the coffee in your beer. Entries will be judged at the Spring Party in March.

 

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Upcoming Events: mark your calendars and join us!SAAZ GOOGLE CALENDAR LINK

SAAZ Christmas Party – December 5th, 5pm @ Jill & Larry Vita’s House

SAAZ January Meeting – January 17th, 2pm @ Coasters Pub & Biergarten

The Fifth Annual Craft Brew and Wingfest – February 20th

SAAZ February Meeting – February 21st, 2pm @ The Mansion

6th Space Coast Craft Beer Festival – February 27th @ Space Coast Harley Davidson

SAAZ Spring Party – March 19th, 12 noon @ Suntree Rotary Park

SAAZ April Meeting – April 17th, 2pm @ World of Beer Viera

SAAZ May Meeting – May 15th, 2pm @ The Broken Barrel Tavern

Bottoms Up Beer Run – June 11th, 3pm @ Wickham Park

SAAZ Summer Beach Party – June 18th, 12 noon @ Pelican Beach Clubhouse

SAAZ July Meeting – July 17th, 2pm @ Village Idiot Pub

SAAZ August Meeting – August 21, 2pm @ TBD

Commander SAAZ – September 17th @ The Hilton Cocoa Beach

SAAZtoberfest – October 15th, 12 noon @ Suntree Rotary Park

 

2016 Dues – Time to renew!

If you want to be included in all the fun events SAAZ has coming up, it’s time to renew your membership. Some of the upcoming events and brew challenges are only open to currently paid 2016 members. There are many advantages to membership, you do not want to miss out. Please pay the Treasurer (Sean Gregg) at any club meeting or online at our website via PayPal – Click here to pay. Make sure to get your new membership card from the secretary.

Individual Membership = $20     Family Membership = $30     Lifetime Membership = $150

***Please take note that dues have increased this year***

Upcoming Competitions – showcase your award winning homebrew!

Check out the American Homebrewers Association website for a complete list of the 2016 competitions.

• Big Bend Brew Off – 1/15 & 16/16 in Tallahassee
• Entry Window: December 6, 2015 – January 8, 2016
• $7 per entry; 4 entries per brewer; 1 entry per category
• Ship to: Big Bend Brew Off, Shane Brooks, 40 Savannah Forest Circle, Crawfordville, FL 32327
• Each entrant can enter and submit up to four (4) entries maximum. No more than one entry per category.
• Total entries will be capped at 225.
• The Big Bend Brew Off is a beer-only competition. We will accept entries from categories 1- 34 of the current 2015 BJCP Beer Style Guidelines. No mead or cider entries will be judged. Full category descriptions can be found at www.bjcp.org.

Reminder that SAAZ policies and procedures now state that any expense must be turned in within 90 days for reimbursement.  If any of you have entered competitions this year, now would be a good time to get those receipts in.  Email Sean Gregg to get your reimbursement.

Policy: SAAZ will reimburse entry payments for Florida circuit competitions, up to 10 per brewer and up to $1000 total per year.

Prost! Cheers! Happy Birthday! 

Rich Abbruscato, Anne Beyette, David Gray, Vic Iesalnieks, Stephan Martinello, Thomas Mayer, Sonia Miller, Rick Strayer and Larry Vita

Don’t see your name? It could be that Secretary doesn’t have your completed membership form. Ask for one at the next meeting so we can include you!

 Bottoms Up Beer Run – June 11th, 2016 @ 3pm

Save the date and tell all your friends to join us for an awesome 4K with homebrew along the way!

Anne Gregg is chairing the race again and needs your help.

Last year we raised $5000 for St. Baldrick’s and hope to do better this year!

Please email Anne to help. We need brewers, planning committee members and event volunteers.

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SAAZ Library

The SAAZ Library is full of great books and magazines to help make you a better brewer. You can view the entire list of publications here. If you see something that interests you, simply send an email to the librarian with your name and the publication title, and the Librarian will bring it to the next monthly member meeting.

If you have borrowed an item from the library this year, please return it ASAP.

Feedback/Contact Us

We need your help! We are very interested in improving the club and we’d like to hear what you think. If you have comments or suggestions about the Newsletter, Website, Activities, or the Club in general, please send an email to editor@saaz.org.