District Michigan Meeting Minutes
Fall MBAA Technical Presentation and General Meeting

General Meeting Minutes: October 18th, 2007
12:08 at Kuhnhenn Brewing Company
Hosted by Bret and Eric Kuhnhenn

Board Members:
Present: Chad McDaniel’s, Marty Rapnicki, Rex Halfpenny, Eric Kuhnhenn, Jan Muuse, John Haggerty, Alec Mull

Quorum present? Yes

General Members:
Present: Rex Halfpenny, Chad McDaniels, Marty Rapnicki, Jake Mohney, Jay Pemberton, TJ Frith, Zeke Bogan, Mike Fuerst, Eric Walker, Jeff Carter, Andy Farrell, Rik Dellinger, Tom Bohs, Paul Popa, Mike LaFore, John Haggerty, Roland Hernandez, JT Ross, Todd Parker, Jim Graber, Al Moss, Ken McPhail, Greg Burke, Dave Duff, Jim Brown, Erik Kuhnhenn Sr., Eric Kuhnhen. Jr., Brett Kuhnhen, Skip Pappas, Wayne Burns, Juan Muse, Dan Rogers, Matt Letki (speaker), Sam Sherwood, Alec Mull, Mark Muncy (speaker), Kim Kowalski, Mike Plesz, Bill Wamby, Steve 'Konrad' Conner, Forest Knapp, Dave Shaw, Eric Briggeman, Scott Graham

Proceedings:

• Meeting called to order at 12:10


• Chad introduces Mark Muncy from Alfa Lavel and Mathew Letki from Canadian malting.
• It was a great Summer Social. Location, beer, 50-50 raffle excellent
• Final numbers of the Summer Social Total revenue generated $6385.00, not including scholarship, netting $3665.00 Clearing $2,500. Broke 100 attendees
• Board vote was in favor of starting a new scholarship to send someone to MBAA brewing school in 2008. Increasing the award from $1000.00 to $3000.00. Winner must be present to win at the Summer Social. Person on ticket must be the one to use scholarship (non-transferable). Expiration date is that year or roll over to next year’s first available class if brewer can’t use in year of award.
• Sam Sherwood will be hosting the next fall MBAA meeting at the Waldorf on October 23rd.
• Initiation fees of $15.00 are going to be eliminated in 2008. Dues are going up from $15.00 to $20.00.


• Break for lunch at 12:45


• Mark Muncy from Alfa Lavel gave a power point presentation outlining different types of heat exchangers and there use in the brewing industry. Then a more in depth open question and answer discussion followed on disassembly and maintenance.


• Mathew Letki from Canadian Malting gave a power point presentation on the global malt market. The global economics of malt were discussed with the influence of poor weather conditions in Europe and Australia.


• Meeting adjourned at 4:01 p.m.

Minutes submitted by Secretary, Eric Kuhnhenn.