1) Congratulations to 4 CRABSters who won ribbons at the recent MALT Turkey Shoot. Joe O’Keefe won the porters and stouts category with his porter. Joe Horne won the New England IPA category. Trevor Rose took 3rd in the strong beer category with his double IPA.Ben Schwalb took 3rd in the sour/wild/experimental category with his Brettanomyces beer. See the complete winners list at https://turkeyshoot.brewcompetition.com/
2) Our table theme for the Guild holiday party will be beer superheroes, or “superbeeroes”. Dress up as a superbeero that you make up. Food will be hero sandwiches. See the CRABS Google doc at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sdOAu1W2_NPJqjxone110TDMbB0JDHAYiMWFwX2fUm0/edit#gid=0
Three logos were presented and we voted on our favorite by shouting and measuring the responses with a decibel meter. The winning logo got 113 decibels.
A small committee discussed table decoration. Emails have started going around with table ideas.
The link to buy tickets for the party is https://mdhomebrewers.ticketleap.com/2019-guild-holiday-party/
3) Our monthly competitions for 2020 have not been decided yet. Many votes have been tallied so far using a voting like. The link will be re-sent in the next few weeks.
4) This month’s competition was strong beers. There were 9 entries. The winners were:
5th - Joe Horne
4th - Zach Keim
3rd - Jason Heinen
2nd (tie) - Brian England
2nd (tie) - Trevor Rose
1st - John Bugert
5) Next meeting: Wednesday December 18. No competition. This will be our holiday party. Bring food, dress up in holiday garb, and/or bring a gift-wrapped bomber or 750 for the annual blind beer swap.
6) Go to http://crabsbrew.org for CRABS-related information.
7) See http://crabsbrew.org/Other_Competitions for a list of upcoming local homebrew competitions.