Post by davidm on Jan 23, 2018 13:10:35 GMT 10
ACB, please move if this is the incorrect place, couldn't work out where to put this one.
How do other clubs run their clubs/meetings?
TooSOBA currently do a monthly meeting on a saturday afternoon at the library for 3 hours. We spend 30 to 60 minutes on club admin, business, and we try to get someone to do a presentation on some brewing topic they're intrested in each month. We then have 2 hours for tasting and critiquing each other's beers.
Roughly 3 times a year, we do a commercial tasting (typically to a BJCP style), and then 3 months later we'll do a mini comp on that style. We do a reduced club tasting after these due to time limits and not wanting to get too pissed and upset our venue.
We're doing a yearly club brew, last year's was barleywine and this year is RIS.
We currently have 14 full members, 1 probationary member (about to become a full member), and there are around 3 or 4 new guys hanging around the fringes. We genearlly get anywhere between 8 to 12 people at a meeting. From experience, 10 has been a good number as you can get around everyone's beer, have a decent discussion about it, talk about a few other brewing things, and it's generally a relaxed feel.
More than this though, i.e. when everyone turns up, I'm noticing it's getting a little rushed and a bit harder to spend time on each beer, ask questions, get feedback etc. It also leaves us no time in between to discuss other brewing topics, or just hang around and chat.
Just interested to see how other bigger clubs manage this transition and how you run your meetings. It's been suggested that we could only taste a certain number of beers each meeting, based on who really wants feedback on something, and maybe have a quota system to ensure this gets spread around over the year. The downside of this though is not everyone attends every meeting, so this potentially hard to manage.
How do other clubs run their clubs/meetings?
TooSOBA currently do a monthly meeting on a saturday afternoon at the library for 3 hours. We spend 30 to 60 minutes on club admin, business, and we try to get someone to do a presentation on some brewing topic they're intrested in each month. We then have 2 hours for tasting and critiquing each other's beers.
Roughly 3 times a year, we do a commercial tasting (typically to a BJCP style), and then 3 months later we'll do a mini comp on that style. We do a reduced club tasting after these due to time limits and not wanting to get too pissed and upset our venue.
We're doing a yearly club brew, last year's was barleywine and this year is RIS.
We currently have 14 full members, 1 probationary member (about to become a full member), and there are around 3 or 4 new guys hanging around the fringes. We genearlly get anywhere between 8 to 12 people at a meeting. From experience, 10 has been a good number as you can get around everyone's beer, have a decent discussion about it, talk about a few other brewing things, and it's generally a relaxed feel.
More than this though, i.e. when everyone turns up, I'm noticing it's getting a little rushed and a bit harder to spend time on each beer, ask questions, get feedback etc. It also leaves us no time in between to discuss other brewing topics, or just hang around and chat.
Just interested to see how other bigger clubs manage this transition and how you run your meetings. It's been suggested that we could only taste a certain number of beers each meeting, based on who really wants feedback on something, and maybe have a quota system to ensure this gets spread around over the year. The downside of this though is not everyone attends every meeting, so this potentially hard to manage.
But that's not nice so Merry Christmas to you to (With reservations 
) LOL!
