C.A.S.K.

Please join us this Saturday, November 9th at Seven Bridges back patio for this month’s CASK meeting.

This month’s Interklub Competition is Clone Wars! Please register your entry before next Saturday’s club meeting at www.thecask.org. Also, remember to drop off your chilled entries at 5pm sharp for judging and provide ONE bottle of the commercial beer and ONE bottle of the cloned beer. Social hour will begin at 6pm and our business meeting will start at 7pm. 

Thank you Veterans United Craft Brewery for hosting our September meeting! Also, thank you to our judges that showed up early on a rainy evening to help judge Porters.

Congratulations to our Interklub Medalists!!!

• Gold: Alex McTammany (American Porter)
• Silver: Chris Dibble (Baltic Porter)
• Bronze: Ian Dibble (Baltic Porter)

CASK has been invited to serve mead at Feeding Northeast Florida’s grand opening. Feeding Northeast Florida is a local food bank that serves Duval and 11 surrounding counties. They are expecting around 350 attendees at this event. Thank you to the volunteers that have agreed to serve for the event and everyone who has offered to bring mead.

If you have a bottle or two of delicious mead that you would be willing to share I’ll be at Ink Factory Saturday night for the meeting. The event is six weeks away, so there’s time to get that mead in bottles that’s clearing on the shelf. If you have questions or need to coordinate a pick up email me at: treasurer@thecask.org

We had a wonderful turn out this evening for our August club meeting. Thank you to Ink Factory Brewing for hosting us tonght and to each of our judges for helping out with our Interklub Competition.

Congratulations to our Interklub Medalists!!!
Gold: Ian Dibble (American Lager)
Silver: Rick Terrio (California Common)
Bronze: Jesse Johnson (Pre-Prohibition Lager)

Legacy Ale Works will host the 3rd annual Homebrew Beer Fest on Saturday, October 19th from 2 pm to 5 pm. Setup for homebrewers is from noon – 2 pm. Open to ~30 brewers.
Please review the details below and if you are interested in participating, please complete the registration form.  If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Warren Huelsnitz at warren@legacyale.com. The deadline to register is August 23rd.

Homebrewer requirements:
Brewers are asked to provide 3 to 5 gallons of beer per entry.  You may enter 1 or 2 beers.  Beer can be provided in the form of bottles, cans or served from the keg.  You will need to provide dispensing equipment for your keg (fittings, hoses, C02, etc.).
 
Legacy will provide: 
Each brewer will receive an entry package to the fest which will include a souvenir sampling glass, an event sticker, a $15 Meal Voucher and a Beer voting card.
 
Legacy will provide ice to all participants who need it. 
 
Live music will be provided by Tim and Jerry acoustic duo.
 
Event t-shirts will be available for purchase.
 
How the fest will work:
Legacy will manage ticket sales to the fest. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to a charity (more info on that soon). Guests who purchase a ticket will receive a souvenir sampling glass and voting card to vote for their favorite beer. At the conclusion of the fest, we will tally the votes and award the People’s Choice Award which comes complete with a snazzy trophy and bragging rights! 
 
We hope to see you there! Please be sure to fill out the registration form at the link: Legacy Homebrew Beer Fest Registration Here

CASK would like to thank all participants, sponsors, judges, stewards, Pros and Joes, and our Competition Director Leandro, for a phenomenal First Coast Cup. From bottle sorting on July 5th to the bottle share post-banquet on 7/27, it was a massive success. Congrats to all our winners – CASK awarded medals in 38 categories from 391 entries. CASK won Heavy Medal Club with 34 medals and 73 points to retake the lead in the Florida Circuit Competition. Special congrats to our 4 Heavy Medal brewers: Robert Hull, James Gostage, Lucas Kluz, and Buddy Greer – all accumulating 8 points, and to our BOS Beer winner: Robert Hull, and BOS Mead/Cider winner: William Carley. Finally, thank you to our hosts King Maker, Intuition Ale Works, Aardwolf, and our banquet host: Legacy Ale Works. We hope to see you again next year for the 18th First Coast Cup! Cheers!

Please join us this Saturday, July 13th at Aardwolf Brewing Company for this month’s CASK meeting.

There will not be an Interklub Competition for the month of July because of First Coast Cup. Due to this, we will not begin things at 5pm, instead, we will skip right to Social Hour, which will be from 6-7pm, with our business meeting from 7-8pm. We hope to see you there!

Meeting Agenda

The 2024 Abbaye Normale Belgian categories have been announced. Please check out the Abbaye Normal page for details of the 2024 competition.

We are looking for about 20 volunteers to help sort and label bottles for the First Coast Cup Competition. We will be meeting at King Maker Brewery on Friday, July 5th at 10am and ending around 2pm. 

In order to get an accurate head count going into the sorting, please RSVP on the CASK Group Facebook Event. It would help if volunteers brought a folding table and we also need empty beer cases (not 6 pack holders). Thank you!

Thank you to Flying Fish Taphouse for hosting this month’s CASK meeting and sponsoring an exciting Interklub Competition featuring 90’s Brewpub Classics (BJCP Cat. 18A, 18B, 19A, & 19C). This month members from the Nassau Homebrew Club and CASK competed for a chance to brew their gold medal winning beer at Flying Fish and have served! We had 22 entries and thank you to all of the judges that turned out to help make this a successful event.

Congratulations to Our Medalists!!!

• Gold: Daniel Larkin (American Brown Ale)
• Silver: Fay Terrio (American Pale Ale)
• Bronze: Don Havland (Blond Ale)

MEETING AGENDA
 

Reminders & Upcoming Events:

• June Pop-Up/First Coast Cup Meeting: Wednesday, June 26th at Barley and Pie, starting at 5:30pm
• First Coast Cup Bottle Sorting: Friday, July 5th starting at 10am at King Maker Brewery
• Just Brew It Closing: Will officially be closing their doors on July 6th. (It is for sale)

Florida Circuit:

• First Coast Cup: Entry Window 6/3 – 7/3, Competition Date 7/27
• Commander SAAZ: Entry Window 6/10 – 7/25, Competition Date 8/17
• Sunshine Challenge: Entry Window 8/18 – 9/07, Competition Date 10/06