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Thursday
Night, June 19, 7 - 11 pm
Picture a room full of homebrew and its
brewers, with clubs putting their best on display, and you get to drink
it all in. This year the clubs will really be trying to outdo each other,
as there will be various prizes awarded, including:
- Le Pissoir d'Or: Sponsored
by the Chicago Beer Society,
this coveted trophy will go to the club that brings the most beer
to the conference. Kegs stashed in the reefer truck will be tallied
as they are stored. Details of how to tally the rest of your beer
will be posted near the registration booth at the conference. The
winner of the beautiful Pissoir d'Or was the Iowa Brewers Union.
- Big Al's Memorial Trophy:
Sponsored by the Urban Knaves of Grain,
this is a prize for the best overall Club Night presentation (beer,
food and other - like costumes, etc), as voted by attendees. Try to
personalize your space as much as possible. Club members dressing
up in a certain fashion is also an idea. Votes will be tallied, and
the winner will be announced at the Friday night banquet. To keep
up a great Chicago tradition, "vote early and often!" Bribery
is also recommended. The winner (with an amazing 574 votes
out of an amazing 1000 cast - hmm, almost 2 ballots for each person
in attendance) was the Minnesota Homebrewers Association.
This is the chance for your club to really
show off. Many clubs are planning booths to provide the "total
experience" while others are simply concentrating on the best beer
and will pitch-in dishes they can muster. Either way, it's a lot of
fun, and a great way to get to know each other better, which is what
really drives this hobby forward.
Sign your club up and we'll give you
a space and a table or two to put on your show. You provide beer, of
course, and most clubs bring food--snacks, cheese, sausage, chili, whatever--
and treat it as a big potluck.
The following clubs were participants
for Club Night:
- Ames
Brewers League, Ames and
central Iowa
- Ann
Arbor Brewers Guild, Ann
Arbor, MI
- Brewers'
Association of Beer and Beverage Libations Extraordinaire (BABBLE),
Lake County, IL
- Birmingham
Brewmasters, Birmingham, AL
- Bloatarian
Brewing League, Cincinnati, OH
- Boneyard
Union of Zymurgical Zealots (BUZZ), Urbana-Champaign, IL
- Brewers
of South Suburbia (BOSS), Chicago, IL south surburbs
- Chicago
Beer Society (CBS), Chicago, IL
- C.R.A.F.T.
Homebrew Club, Mt. Clemens, MI
- Downriver
Brewers Guild, Downriver Detroit, MI (south suburbs)
- Fermental
Order of Renaissance Draughtsmen (FORD), SE Michigan
- Firkin Homerackers, E. Lansing, MI
- Forest
City Brewers, Rockford, IL
- Hop
Barley and the Alers, Boulder, CO
- Iowa
Brewers Union (IBU), Des Moines and vicinity
- Kansas
City Bier Meisters, Kansas City, KS-MO region
- Midnight
Carboys, Crystal Lake - McHenry County, IL
- Minnesota
Homebrewers Association (MHBA), Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN area
- Prairie
Homebrewing Companions, Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN region
- Primetime
Brewers, Grand Rapids, MI
- Prison
City Brewers, Jackson, MI
- Silverado
Homebrew Club, St. Charles, IL
- Society
of Akron Area Zymurgists (SAAZ), Akron, OH
- Upstate
New York Homebrewers Association, Rochester, NY
- Urban
Knaves of Grain (UKG), DuPage County, IL
Make sure to drop us an email and let
us know:
For more information on Club Night and
other opportunities for clubs to provide hospitality at the Conference,
please contact Joe Formanek.
The Urban Knaves of Grain serve up
a storm at 2000 NHC
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