May 19th, 2023
Location: Fossil Cove Brewing, Fayetteville, AR
Meeting called order at 7:21pm with a toast from the MugWatcher, Keith Linn
New Members
Dona Smiles
Members opening breweries updates
Patrick Bohannon – Black Howler looks to be opening to the public in October 2023.
Larry McCallister – The Fermentary Public House hoping to be opening early 2024.
Other Updates
Puritan Coffee & Beer in Fayetteville will soon start serving cask ale.
Bill Adams from Goat Lab Brewing has volunteered to host monthly brewing classes at the brewery. North Tunnel / Boston Mountain has been hosting monthly brewing classes as well.
Reminder: Please email gregbnewman@gmail.com with any contest activity (entered, placed, win, scored higher than 35) to get credited points for the Brewer of the Year contest. It is up to you to submit those to get credit.
There have been discussions of a possible return of Brewtober. More info to come…
Core has canceled SeltzerFest, the status of HeatWave for this year is unknown.
June Social: Bicycle Pub Crawl in Fayetteville, date and route TBD.
Boston Mountain is releasing a Midwest IPA on May 19th.
Recent Events
Big Brew Day at Doc’s – Excellent event resulting in 3 prospective brew club members (undetermined which club). Brewing demos were conducted by Doc Farmer (all grain) and James Harvey (extract).
Bugs, Beer, & Birthday Cake – Fantastic event hosted by Keith Linn. Awesome spread of crawdads and excellent beers. Many members brought kegs and growlers, and sang very out of tune around the campfire. Tom is still looking for the crawdad that stole his beer.
Homebrew Showcase in Siloam
Larry McCallister & James Spurlin won “The Jack” trophy for their butterbeer.
Marsha Farmer won People’s Choice for her delicious Cider.
Kolin mentioned possibly creating a separate category for beer and cider since cider seems to take top honors during that warm event.
Education Session
“So you want to open a Brewery” presented by club president Patrick Bohannon, with added commentary from vice-president Daniel Stubblefield (Boston Mountain Brewing) and Larry McCallister (The Fermentary Public House).
Brewer of the Month
1st Place – Larry McCallister
2nd – Ben Farhner
3rd (tie)
- Alex Smith
- Ken Gill
- Randy Germann
- David Johnson
Ass of the Month
Daniel Stubblefield for his Irish Goodbye to supposedly go fill kegs…
