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| Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, July 19th at 7:30 pm at Twin Elephant Brewing 13 Watchung Ave, Chatham, NJ 07928  Join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, July 19th, 2022, for our monthly MASH meeting at Twin Elephant Brewing in Chatham. This will be our first time back at Twin Elephant Brewing since October. Come out to sample some of their always tasty beers. Along with it prepare your palettes for Mash’s Second Club Only Competition of the Year. The beer style is American Wheat Beer (BJCP 1D). In addition, you will be able to pick up your 2022 MASH member Glass. This year it is a 21.5 oz Willi Becher Tumbler,  Brooklyn Breweries Tour We are excited to announce the MASH Brooklyn Breweries Tour is scheduled for Saturday, July 30th! Our former board member Stu Blake has done reconnaissance and is ready for us to visit! For more details and to sign up, Click Here    Upcoming MASH Events Mash Club only Competitions: September 2022: We will be opening up the options for our third and final Club-only Competition of the year. You can brew any BJCP-style beer as long as the ABV is 4.5 % or less. There are not a huge amount of styles that would qualify, but there are certainly enough to make this an interesting competition. April 2023: Based on helpful feedback we received at the June Members Only Meeting, we are announcing this well in advance. The first Club only Competiton of next year will be ANY style lager. We plan to have a Sensory Analysis session featuring lagers early in the year to get everyone psyched for the April competition. Start your planning Now!! Multiple Homebrew Club activity: We are planning an inter-club bottle share and picnic for late August or early September with several of the other homebrew clubs in northern New Jersey. At this time, our preference is for Saturday, September 10th from 1 pm to 5 pm. The location would be the picnic area at Sunrise Lake in Lewis Morris Park in Morristown (where we held our July 2021 Club Only Competition). This is all subject to availability. Pencil in the date. MASH Competition Committee feedback: Starting with the August monthly meeting, we plan to have an expansive BJCP Confessional session. Anyone who wants to participate with an entry from the State Fair competition should contact Steve Hocken directly on Slack AFTER the competition is over. For those participating, plan to bring a growler or 6-pack of your beer for tasting and your score sheets from the competition. Save the Key Dates: July 19 – Monthly meeting at Twin Elephant including Club Only Competition (American Wheat Beer)July 23 – State Fair Homebrew Competition in person judging July 30 – Tour of several Brooklyn breweriesAugust 16 – Monthly meeting September 20 – Monthly meeting including Club Only Competition (4.5 % or less ABV) Join  Our 2022 Membership Drive is open. MASH members are invited to re-up their commitment to our community by renewing their membership. Dues remain $25 for AHA members and $30 for those who haven’t joined yet. While you don’t have to be a member to attend our monthly meetings, members get exclusive perks, including membership to our Mash New Jersey Slack, our running chat of all things homebrew, and beer. And stay tuned for the reveal of our 2022 membership glass!”Member up” using this form You can then send payment via MASH’s Paypal at mashnewjersey@gmail.com or via Venmo to Board Treasurer Micha Stark @starkm1.MASH Member Perk: As a reminder, one of the benefits of membership is the potential to get reimbursed for muling entries to homebrew competition drop-off locations. As long as there is at least one other homebrewer’s beer for you to take along with your own, MASH will reimburse you $1 for each entry that you drive to a drop-off location. Just coordinate prior to your departure date and keep one of the Board members in the loop. BJCP Confessional program: As a way of providing (what we hope will be) useful feedback to any MASH member who enters a beer (or mead or cider) in a homebrew competition, we have put together a new interactive exercise. Following a competition, the MASH member can bring in their scoresheet, recipe, and a bottle of beer to get feedback from one of our BJCP judges. We will tweak the procedure along the way if necessary. Initially, we view this as a way to take the place of the Online Beer Scores anonymous beer evaluations. But it could grow to become an entire meeting later in the year if enough competition participants are interested in sharing. |