Location
- 10 N Station Rd, Colchester CO1 1RB
ACB Annual AGM For 2022
Please register your intentions to attend the 2022 ACB AGM. Please be aware that the date has been pushed out again to January 14th 2023 (due to a planned rail strike) but we’ll be covering the 2022 period.
The date and location is reconfirmed as Saturday, 14/1/2023 at the Victoria Inn, North Station Road, Colchester 12:30 for a 13:00 start.
We will also aim to put on some beer-related educational material: Off Flavour session to help with midweek meetings and help to educate brewers to recognise common off-flavour issues with beer tasting in general.
Please take the opportunity to leave any questions in the comments below. Doing this allows us to deal with questions or prepare answers beforehand, so we can keep the AGM moving. The AGM should only be used to report the year, plan for the next year and to table votes. Obviously things change and questions crop up. Please allow for questions to be deferred and don’t expect answers on the day, especially if you haven’t posted them here first. Thank you.
Rail strike on this date
Hi John, thanks for pointing this out. Please see the change of date to the 14th Jan. Hope you can attend. All the best.
Is it me, or is there no “click to register” for this event?
Same
Being fixed
As it stands, I am not likely to be able to attend the AGM due to illness.
I’ve been thinking about how we might organise our Monthly “Saturday” meetings going forward. It is well documented how Ashley is stepping down organising such events in the Norwich area, for reasons he has communicated elsewhere, that do not need to be debated further.
This leaves us with an opportunity to do things a little bit differently, and rather than have a Saturday meeting every month, would allow us a little bit of flexibility, in which we could naturally have free weekends at less popular (with the family) times (holiday season) as well as giving us a chance to potentially organise something like a brewery (or similar) trip on a weekend that doesn’t cause the cancellation of a regular Saturday meeting.
My idea is therefore structured along the following lines…. regular Saturday meetings are continued to be organised between the Essex and Suffolk regions, with both regions free to vary meeting location to accommodate the wider geographical location of each regions members. There would be 4 months where no such Saturday meeting would be organised. Such a schedule could look something like this…
January: Free/no meeting or a regular placeholder for the AGM
February: Essex (Chelmsford)
March: Suffolk (Ipswich_
April: Essex (Colchester)
May: Free (first Saturday is the w/end of the Coronation and is likely to be as busy as hell…as well as being a Bank Holiday)
June: Suffolk (Ipswich/Bury St. Edmunds)
July: Essex (Chelmsford)
August: Free (loads of folk on holiday)
September: Suffolk (Ipwich/DISS)
October: Essex (Colchester)
November: Free (BrewCon or other events might be occurring)
December: Suffolk (Ipswich)
Before jumping down my throat….this is no way meant to be prescriptive in terms of locations…its just me putting ideas out there, for all to see, that can be discussed at the AGM. Me presenting it here gives folks chance to consider, refine or provide alternative ideas. Folks may decide that regular Saturday meetings are no longer of interest!!!
Irrespective of the above, in terms of midweek local meetings, regions would remain free to organise whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want.
Nick
Will it be possible to have lunch in the Victoria before the meeting starts?
Hi Peter, the Vic don’t do food, but as James eluded, there’s food shops close by. The Vic are fine if you take food in, as long as you’re drinking. I usually go and biy a bag of chips of I’m on a session in there, there’s no problems.
Peter, I don’t believe that they do food at the Vic. I suggest you have something on your way. Or arrive early and eat at one of the local establishments (curry, fish ‘n’ chips, etc.).