Ben, I know the executive chef at Oak Ridge Conference Center pretty well and I asked him if he would be interested in leading a session on food pairing. Key question before speaking with him live is what cost the members would be willing to pay. Thoughts?

From: jab-bounces@thebarn.com [mailto:jab-bounces@thebarn.com] On Behalf Of Ben Ducklow
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:14 PM
To: jab@thebarn.com
Subject: Re: [JAB@thebarn.com message] 2014 ideas

I know some of our members are BJCP certified, so maybe that might be something to speak of or talk about. Something else to talk about would maybe be a food & beer pairing type of a topic?? Maybe something else (for the summer months and a place with some space) would be a show-and-tell of sorts to talk about different brewing setups/configurations - maybe something ranging from the cooler-style setups to folks with bench style and tier’d setups (along with accessories, gadgets and techniques for brewing better beer. I’d still consider myself a novice, but I’d be willing to bring my Brutus 10 style setup and talk about it..

Just ideas to consider! I love hearing from some of you more advanced brewers at our meetings!

-Ben

On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Michael Behrendt <MGBrew@comcast.net> wrote:

Thanks, but we’re not just looking for approval for a list of items, we need people to offer to actually execute them.

So, let’s go folks, pick something you’d like to see JAB do and figure out how to do it!!!!

//Mike Behrendt

From: gdavis@comcast.net [mailto:gdavis@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:49 PM
To: Michael Behrendt
Cc: jab@thebarn.com
Subject: Re: [JAB@thebarn.com message] 2014 ideas

I for one think this is a very good list and if you can actually get a tour of Surly for JAB I'm in...You can never seem to get in on those as they fill up so fast.

How about a hop talk of some sort?

Garret

From: "Michael Behrendt" <MGBrew@comcast.net>
To: jab@thebarn.com
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:39:03 AM
Subject: [JAB@thebarn.com message] 2014 ideas

We’re starting to look at plans for next year.

If anyone has suggestions, please pass them along. Especially, if you’re willing to actually arrange the activity.

Here’s a list from last year of possible technical topics/activities. Other suggestions are welcome.

Technical Topics	Tours
Cleaning / Sanitizing	Rahr
Yeast / Yeast Starters	Lucid
Brew in a Bag	Steel Toe
All Grain starting	Surly
All Grain intermediate	Northern Brewer warehouse
Bottling	Cold Spring
Kegging
Bottling from a keg
Judging / Competitions
BJCP Ranking / exam
Flaws / Troubleshooting

Thanks!

//Mike Behrendt - VP

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