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New Club Officers
In compliance with the Club By-Laws, the new executive BEWBC Board was approved at the first club meeting of the year on Feb 27.  Please welcome new and continuing members, 
  • President - Mike Doherty
  • Vice President Beer - Mark Emily
  • Vice President Wine - Jon Barbour
  • Secretary - Elena Smirnova
  • Treasurer - Kevin Neal
Education
Steve Foisie announces:  
After 43 years, this will be the last year that I will be offering a fundamentals in wine making class.
The class is tentatively scheduled for late August, 2018. More details to follow
Please note that I will not be available this harvest so for the class to be successful, I will need several mentors to work with the students through the crush, press, and post fermentation analysis.
It been a fun run, but it's time to hang up the purple shoes.
Mentors
We have mentors!  On this website, in the Members section, find the drop down for mentors.  You can send a message by double clicking the mentor’s highlighted name, where you’ll be directed to Messages.  These club members have volunteered to help you with your winemaking questions, and there is likely at least one who lives near you.
Membership
Share the fun with BEWBC and earn a $35 gift card to a wine store of your choice!  Invite an eligible guest to any of our upcoming wine events so they can experience the benefits of membership.  You will be rewarded with a gift card for any new members brought on board.  How easy is that? 
Horse Heaven Hills Wine Tour and New Member Recruitment July 21-22:
Horse Heaven Hills Wine Growers Trail Drive and BBQ"  takes place on Saturday, July 21st.  Folks will meet growers and vintners at this all-day wine tasting event which culminates with a BBQ and music at a park.  This is an overnight event.  We will meet in Prosser Saturday late morning, with buses driving us to the various wineries, the BBQ, and then back to our hotel.   The objective is to promote membership in the club while enjoying an AVA experience in the heart of wine country.  There may be an incentive of some sort for attracting potential members.  
The cost of the Trail Drive to members is still being worked out.  The club is fortunate to have a corporate sponsor.  
Please save the date!  July 21-22.  More to follow….  

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Parent Category: Wine
Category: Wine Events
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Mike and Kristin Doherty and Marty Weisman put this event together at Brad’s Florentino Cellars.  Brad has been enormously hospitable to us.  Mike and Kristin and Marty did a great job and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun.  This is a very popular event!

 

Here are the brackets:

Bracket

And here are the entries:

 

Forbidden Fruit 2012 Cab

Lyle Picard

Forbidden Fruit 2016 Syrah

Lyle Picard

Forbidden Fruit 2014 Bordeaux

Lyle Picard

2016 Corvus Cab

Eric Mildes

2014 Cab Ciel du Cheval

Dennis and Page Campbell and Kathryn Chalfan

2014 Merlot Ciel du Cheval

Dennis and Page Campbell and Kathryn Chalfan

Pseudo Tuscan 2013 Yakima Valley

Dennis Koepke

C. Lee 2011 Cab Sauv

Bill Bronecke

2016 Cab Franc

George Montanero and Randy Neville

Doherty Cellars 2016 Tower Syrah

Mike Doherty

Neville Blend 2015 Merlot Syrah PV

Randy Neville and George Montanaro

Dancing Elk 2016 Corvus Cab

Marty Weisman

Villa Di Giorgio Red Table Wine

George Cooper

Pinot Noir 2016 Sikora

Joe Sikora

Gemelli Cellars 2015 Malbec (Gilbert)

Erik and Michael Cooper

 

 

Congratulations to Dennis Koepke for the top club wine, his Pseudo Tuscan 2013 Yakima Valley!

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Parent Category: Beer
Category: Beer Events
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March has come in like a Lion Red and will leave like Lambic. But, as usual, I digress. Let me give you 3.14159 reasons to attend the meeting of the Alerati on the day before St. Patrick's day.
  • BotFly (Beer on the Fly) - Somebody agreed to brew something and share.  So there! Come enjoy the experiment. And come with your own experimental ideas and be the next BotFly!
  • Irish Red - The illustrious Style Sherpa will be showcasing the luck o' th' Irish.  If you made your own luck bring that down to share as well! Or any Pi or St. Patrick style of beer. Or any beer, cider, mead or ...
  • Competition Entry - I, your glorious source of all things awesome and beer-y, will be giving a brief presentation on how to enter a beer competition.  World domination to follow! A few simple guidelines can make all the difference.
  • General kibbutzing - talking about brew, sharing brew, giving feedback, sharing tips and so on
As always, bring beer, bring food and bring it on.

Check out the Impaling Aler's website to see our calendar of events. See you at Lake Desire Clubhouse on March 16th, 2018 at 7:00pm!

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Grape ordering Open Enrollment opens today and CLOSES SUNDAY MARCH 31ST.   If you'd like a definition or reminder of Open Enrollment - please see ** below. 

Also, grape ordering deadline for Corvus vineyard has been extended: March 15th deadline for Corvus Mourvedre and March 23rd deadline for Corvus Cabernet Sauvignon. 

To order grapes:

  1. Log in to website www.bewbc.org
  2. Renew your membership if not already - SEE INSTRUCTIONS AT EMAIL AT BOTTOM
  3. Place orders - SEE INSTRUCTIONS AT EMAIL AT BOTTOM
  4. After you place an order, you will receive an order confirmation email from "GOOGLE FORMS"

If you have any questions about a vineyard, contact the vineyard focal listed in the vineyard description write-up or, for general questions, contact Grape Procurement Coordinators Joe Enright (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Joe Sikora (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). 

Thanks!

**Open Enrollment - Open enrollment period is when any order placed for a vineyard/varietal will have equal priority to other orders for that vineyard/varietal.  If the orders exceed available grapes or if there are shortages at harvest time, those shortages will be spread among open enrollment orders in an equitable manner.  Those who order after open enrollment have lower priority and will not get grapes if the vineyard has sold out or will have lower priority if there are shortages at harvest time (i.e. will be impacted first).  You can still place orders after open enrollment but run the risk of not getting what you want.  PLUS it is helpful for the club and our standing with our vineyards to order as early as possible.  

Time to start ordering grapes for 2018!  Time sensitive!

Hi BEWBC club members.  It is time to renew your membership and order grapes.  There are big changes/improvements to the club's website so PLEASE READ THE DETAILS BELOW.

First, you must be an active member so make sure to renew your membership online.  Due for 2018 are $35.  Just go www.bewbc.org, log in using your existing profile, and renew!  It is nice and easy with online payment and it will take effect immediately (offline payment options are available but it will cause a delay).

JOIN THE CLUB/RENEW!  

>   Sign up Online 

GRAPE ORDERING (open enrollment) time period:

  • Corvus Vineyard:       Opens today and Closes Friday, March 15th for Mourvedre and March 23rd for Cabernet Sauvignon (ENDS EARLY)
  • All other Vineyards:   Opens Saturday, March 10th and Closes Saturday, March 31st 

Note- You can place orders after open enrollment closes however those orders have less priority than orders placed during open enrollment in the event of grape shortage at harvest. 

All open enrollment orders have equal priority.

PRICING:  2018 pricing for Corvus isn’t 100% firm but will be similar to last year.  Pricing on the remaining vineyards is still in work but will likely be similar to last year as well.  Please be flexible with any price increase made during open enrollment; you’ll have an opportunity to cancel or change your order.

ORDER GRAPES using the website system, same as last year.  Please note that our ordering process uses Google Forms.  Boeing firewalls block access to Google Forms so you must access registration from a personal computer or mobile device (you shouldn't be ordering from work anyhow!) If you log into Google before submitting your order, you'll be able to access it later!

After logging into the BEWBC site, Follow the links on the site described below.

MEMBERS AREA
>  Grape Info & Ordering
>  Vineyards – order here! 
>  Select vineyard and press the "ORDER" button at bottom of page

            >  Fill out the order form and SUBMIT:

Example order form:

If you have any questions, please contact our Grape Procurement Committee. Sincerely, BEWBC Grape Procurement