December 2, 2012 Board Meeting Minutes
The meeting began @ 4:30 PM. The first item discussed was an inventory of the brew house. As space is at a premium, redundant equipment should be removed.
Membership is currently 30 brewers, 8 apprentices, and 18 friends. This brings out income about even to our expenses.
We are now fully moved to the new website, Ning is being canceled immediately. Ning is now an unnecessary expense.
The next equipment improvement for the brewhouse is to add a motor to our grain mill and build a permanent stand. The decision was made to look for a used motor online and a budget was approved for parts.
Lucas discussed again reaching out to brewing station one and offering some sort of reciprocity or cross membership, there has been little communication since previous discussion.
We have temperature controllers for the lager box. One large control box is being made to serve the ferm room and the lager box which can be mounted on the wall between the two.
There has been a problem of blow off from fermenters. There was discussion about making ferm cap mandatory to prevent blowoff. The consensus was to make ferm cap available, and recommended for high gravity ales, but not required.
A checkout function is being added to the website to charge for grain, classes, and other items as necessary. This is required before the BJCP judge classes can be start.
Stout night is fast approaching; a google doc is online for volunteer sign ups. The regular event budget was approved.
Meeting adjourned at 5:30.
Present: Mark Walters*, Stephen Lane*, James Lewis*, Andrew Tompka, Lucus Morris*, Bill Sansom, Jim Chochola*, Dan P., Conrad Furman, Pete Alvarado*, David Williams*, Erick Ignaczak*
Absent: Adam York*.
*Board Members
