JULY 2024 BOARD MINUTES

In attendance: Bryan E, Andy M, Roxanne W, Rob W

Meeting started 7:15pm at Westendorfs Deck on the 15th Green

Next Events: 

  • July Club Meeting (7-19) will be at the NEW Humble Monk location (new address: 4100 Colerain Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223)!

    • Owen Heckmann with talk about his small batch and crazy fun fermentations.

    • HM will NOT have a liquor license yet, so we can bring homebrew AND commercial beers to share. 

  • July Social – Date TBD at Wooden Cask. 

  • September – Josh Elliott, owner of Fruitblood will talk.

  • September Social - TBD

Beer & Sweat:

  • Committee met briefly on July 1. 

    Updates:

    • Ice: Jer has ice covered, along with pickup

    • Awards: Same structure as 2023 (Keith)

    • Sponsors: Bryan has received a few confirmations on donations, and is reaching out to more every day. 

    • Food: Pizza, maybe, probably

    • Competition site is open and taking entries and judges.

    • 35 hotel nights so far. 

    • Need to order glasses, and potentially  coffee mugs as judges gifts.

    • Shirts, with logo, and donor logos on back, provided courtesy of Lemon Grenade. Mario is involved and will print. We will check to see if Mario can handle pre-orders.

    • Marketing efforts need to be ramped up - both email and social sites for entries. Soda category. Pool / family fun / Zoo, etc.

    • May need PA / Mic, cables, etc. (Andy to talk to his dad)

    • Friday Bottle Share as usual

    • Cincy State Student Category (will need an additional Category in BAP  - double entrered) so it can be judge regular, and also as a Cincy State Student entry) Bryan will have to generate codes to manage the entries. 

    Old News:

    Treasurer:

    • Absent. But... We still have some money in the bank. A little more than we had last time. 

Next Bored Meeting

August 5 @ Ray’s Pizza Patio

Meeting Adjourned 8:20pm

Andy Melchers