14th Annual Music City Brew-Off - October 9 and 10, 2009

[jefrey3]

I received this today:

A NEW PLACE ..... A NEW FACE..... for the 14th Annual Music City Brew-Off - October 9 and 10, 2009
Information for registration for competition entries, judging, stewarding, and dinner and presentation reservations will be available at www.musiccitybrewers.com on August 1, 2009.

Hi All

The Music City Brew Club is relocating their competition to the Holiday Inn Select, located at 2200 Elm Hill Pike, near the airport and I-40 and I-24, and it will be held on Friday October 9th and Saturday, October 10th, 2009. Our new place and new face includes additional fun and additional opportunities to taste beer - and not just ours! Here is your chance to show off your finest (which we know you will enter in our competition anyway) in a setting that will allow everyone to have a taste.

Friday, October 9, 2009 - Reception Brew-N-Greet - Mash in at 1:00 PM

We will have a reception brew in the parking lot of the hotel, hosted by the Music City Brewers and none other than the One and Only HopGod, with a recipe from our special guest John Palmer. The Reception/Brew will begin around 1:00 in the afternoon and end prior to the buffet dinner which will be styled with home brews (we are calling it The Beer Buffet).

Friday, October 9, 2009 - The Beer Buffet with John Palmer - 6:00 PM

At the The Beer Buffet, scheduled to begin at 6 PM, our guest speaker will be none other than John Palmer, author of 'How to Brew' and Co-author of 'Brewing Classic Styles'. Cost of the buffet is $40 per person and we must have prior reservations. We expect a minimum of 8 homebrewed beers from MCB members and other regional clubs. If interested in providing a beer for the dinner please contact Jonathan Adams - jonathan.r.adams@vanderbilt.edu. Dinner and Mr. Palmer's presentation is by reservation only and may be made on our website at www.musiccitybrewers.com anytime after August 1, 2009.

Friday October 9, 2009 - after the dinner and presentation - The First Ever - MUSIC CITY BREWERS CLUB CRAWL

We have reserved a room where the various homebrew clubs can set up and serve their finest - right there in the same place where all the other events will be going on. No traveling from place to place. Set it up, serve it and enjoy! Here also is your opportunity to dress up your table with your club logo and various memorabilia to "show off" to the other homebrew clubs. The hotel will provide six foot tables, ice, and electricity (but you need to provide your own extension cords) , and we are inviting you and your Club to bring a minimum of 4 kegs of your finest homebrew to set up and dispense, if kegs are unavailable bottled beer is absolutely fine with us. Set up time begins at 5:00 PM. This Music City Club Crawl will probably begin about 8 or 9, after the Beer Buffet and run until 11 or 12 - or until we run out of homebrew! There is no cost for your club to come and exhibit your wares! Another fantastic feature of the MUSIC CITY CLUB CRAWL - you can make reservations at the same hotel ($99.00 a night + tax) and not have to drive anywhere! The Music City Brewers will supply taster glasses for the event and there will be an award for the "best dressed" table.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 - Judging, Music City Pub Crawl and Awards Ceremony

On Saturday, our BJCP/AHA sanctioned competition will hold 2 rounds of judging followed by a MUSIC CITY PUB CRAWL of the local breweries of Nashville. This will be followed by the awards ceremony and a super loaded raffle. If it ends up in a drink fest, all the merrier! We will still be at the same place where our rooms are located.

Room Reservations:

Please make your room reservations as early as possible at www.hiselect.com/bna-brileypkwy. The hotel does have another major event going on that weekend and we certainly would hate for you to not have your reservation in early. Our discounted rate of $99.00 is guaranteed only through September 9, 2009 and you must identify your reservation with the Music City Brewers. For those of you who want to know, the Holiday Inn still accomodates smoking rooms - so you can add that to your reservation request. Room cancellations can be accomplished without penalty until the day before you are scheduled to arrive. So even if you have a glimmer of thinking about coming, get your room reservations made now.

We would greatly appreciate knowing if you will be participating in the Music City Club Crawl, and hope to have your response no later August 20, 2009. If it appears that space is running out with reservations from various clubs (and we know it will) before the August 20 deadline, another announcement will be sent out indicating that space will be limited to (however many) clubs and will be filled on a first come, first served basis. We really can't wait to hear from you!!

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS FUN WEEKEND.....RESERVE YOUR MUSIC CITY CLUB CRAWL SPACE AND ROOM NOW!!!

Please respond to Liz Snyder, Club Crawl Coordinator, at TinLizzie421@comcast.net.

And now, a note from the MCB Competition Coordinator

- Hello to all, In an effort to reach out and be more inclusive of the regional clubs in this area we have developed a list based on information available from the AHA and internet. We have not included every club listed but mostly ones that are in a reasonable distance from Nashville which may have interest. I can only say that this list may not be totally inclusive and that is by no means purposeful but rather just what I was able to find or thought might be interested. So if you think that there may be other homebrew clubs in the region that may be interested in an event such as ours, please feel free to contact them or forward this email to them or for that matter your memberships. Hope to see a bunch of you in October, thanks and May The Hops Be With You


Tom Vista
MCBO Competition Coordinator