1) The Guild holiday party will be on Saturday December 3 from 6-10 PM at Heavy Seas.  Please send along your ideas for the CRABS club table theme.

 

2) This year marks the 35^th anniversary of CRABS.

 

3) The Baltimore Craft Beer Festival will take place this Saturday October 22 at Canton Waterfront Park.  Nepenthe Homebrew will host a homebrew contest there.

 

4) The MALT Turkey Shoot homebrew contest will take place on Saturday November 5.  Entries are due October 29.  Lots of great prizes await all category winners, including regulators, bags of grain, tap handles, faucets, shanks, brewing software, a Beer Gun, and numerous gift certificates.  To enter, or to register as a judge or steward, go to the online registration system at http://turkeyshoot.brewcompetition.com/

 

5) Registration for next year’s National Homebrew Contest is less than 4 months away.  Let’s see if we can get more CRABS participation.

 

6) Rob F. will be hosting a party on Sunday November 13.  He will send more information in the next couple of weeks.

 

7) This month’s competition was big beers.  There were 8 entries.  The winners were:

 

5^th– Marty Mengele

5^th– Rob Farrell

4^th – Jason Heinen

3^rd – Rob Kiernan

2^nd (tie) – Don Zwach

2^nd (tie) – Bob Mosier

1^st – Zach Keim

 

8) Next month’s competition: porters and stouts.

 

9) Go to http://crabsbrew.org for CRABS-related information.  The 2016 CRABS competition schedule is at http://crabsbrew.org/competition_schedule