Location: Craft Beer Cellar Beercierge

• Congratulations to our National Homebrew Competition winners! And congratulations for the club as a whole for being called out at the
  awards ceremony – we were within striking distance of the Homebrew
  Club award.

• HomebrewCon 2019 is in our backyard – Providence, RI. We should make sure to have a big presence there.-
•  Competition season is ongoing. The next two MCAB competitions are the Blue Ridge Brew Off (http://www.blueridgebrewoff.com/) on Sep. 20, and New England Regional (http://www.bfd.org/NERHBC). The club is going to organize and pay for group shipping to Blue Ridge.

• Hops from the bulk hop buy are in! Get yours from J-Sap.

• September meeting location isn’t set yet. Watch this space.

• Possible plan for an upcoming meeting tasting: We’ll arrange to brew a very large batch that can be split to a bunch of members and ferment in various ways (temps, yeasts, ?)

• New people introduce themselves – three tonight.

• Advent Calendar homebrew box will be happening – if you want to participate, plan to have a case of homebrew ready for it by mid-November. Contact Nathan Williams for more information if you can’t wait until November.

• Boston Fermentation Festival is Sunday August 26th, at the Boston Public Market (100 Hanover St, Boston). A couple of Worts will be there representing homebrewing. More are welcome! Contact Matthew Dirckx if you’re interested.

• Treasurer’s report, for July 2018.
    Expenditures: $579.85 T-shirts, BHC medals and prize shipping.
    Income: $442.70 (membership dues)
    Net: $137.15
    Treasury total: $10822.66

• Tonight’s activity: Saison internal mini-competition. We have 13 entries; taste them all and rank your top three. Note that the style is quite broad!

• (after much tasting happens) Saison winners are (1) Nathan W (2) J-Sap (3) Steve S, by popular vote.