SUNSHINE CHALLENGE 2012
Nov. 16 & 17th, 2012
The Sunshine Challenge is a 2-day event combining a wide variety of activities in the Central Florida Home Brewers club homebrew competition.
This is an action filled weekend you will not want to miss. Call for your room reservations. For more information contact JR at sunshine@cfhb.org or go to club website: www.cfhb.org/sunshine-challenge
You might be asking: “When exactly is this spectacular event?” Officially, SC12 will kick off with the commencement of judging at 9am on Friday, November 16th and end with the awards ceremony the evening of Saturday, November 17th. Actually, there is a lot more that will be happening at the hotel. For example, there will be a BYO Belgian Beer & Stinky Cheese party Thursday night along with some exciting Belgian kegs donated by local breweries and homebrewers. After the judging on Friday, we will be hosting a Beer Festival organized by Dave Snow and Seth and Andrea Walker. Dinner will be included in the price of admission.
The fun continues on Saturday! Attendees are welcome to a Seminar with Guest of Honor speaker. This is followed by the resumption of judging. In the afternoon there is a Pub-crawl with the bus picking up crawlers at the hotel front door and returning them just in time for a short of rest before the Awards Banquet.
Unofficially, SC12 starts weeks earlier with the receiving and registering of entries. This year that will be done at Kathleen Hick’s home in Winter Springs, FL. Entry deadline is November 4th. So, bring your entries to the November monthly meeting or drop them off at Hearts Homebrew Supply. We have set up the Homebrew Underground Railroad to pick up entries at Commander SAAZ in Melbourne and somwhere in Tampa.
At this point, I’m sure you are asking: “Wow! That sounds GREAT! How do I sign up?” The best way is to keep watching the CFHB Brewsletter and our websitewww.cfhb.org/sunshine-challenge for details. In the meanwhile, you can help out by volunteering for one of the teams that need help. Just drop us an e-mail at:sunshine@cfhb.org .
Of course, we always need help with entries. Specifically, brew and enter then volunteer to judge and/or steward. Plan on attending and bringing homebrew to the hotel and having FUN!
Cheers,
Chris Chubb,
SC12 Competition Organizer
Dates of Importance:
Wednesday, October 17th: Registration Opens.
Sunday, November 4th: Bring your entries to the CFHB meeting at Rossi’s
Sunday, November 4th: SC11 entries deadline date, deliver to Hearts Homebrew or to Winter Springs by noon.
Friday, November 9th: First round judging in Winter Springs. Coming? Please RSVP.
Saturday, November 10th: First round judging in Winter Springs. Coming? Please RSVP.
Sunday, November 11th: First round judging in Winter Springs. Coming? Please RSVP.
Thursday, November 15th: BYOB Belgian Beer and Stinky Cheese at Sheraton in Maitland.
Friday, November 16th: Final round judging ( Coming? Please RSVP.) at hotel then Beer Festival w/ Barvarian Buffet at hotel.
Saturday, November 17th: Seminar, Second round and BOS judging ( Coming? Please RSVP.), Pub Crawl and Awards Dinner Ceremony with huge Raffle.
Please support the following companies who have donated prizes to Sunshine Challenge:
