Friday 6th Feb 2009

Present: RAF, Andy, Ian, Ann, Mark.

Presentation of Bronze Award to Mark. Well done Mark.

Any Other Business: RAF requested we book as many beds as possible in the Renal Unit of the Heath Hospital in Cardiff to save time after the Festival.

It was suggested that we set up our own organ donation service. Scratch and Richard were refused a donor card.

Tuesday 13th Jan 2009

Well nobody noticed so why do I bother.

A) A delivery of Ales was mixed up and I didn't know so it was sold with the wrong name, abv etc.

B) To make things worse I accidentally switched the pump badges on two ales (One being the wrong ale anyway)...and NOBODY noticed.

So for the Festival I'll serve up a dozen or so of the cheapest ales at highly inflated prices with differents badges on and laugh at all these so called experts!!!

More advertising gone out. Need to do a lot more.

Tuesday 6th Jan 2009

Raf came up with his short list for the Festival Scottish Ales. 7 in all

Friday 19th December 2008

Meeting to celebrate Christmas

Minutes

No business except to award Bronze medals to Scratch and Raf for 50 cask Ales

Tuesday 18th November 2008

Meeting to discuss Ales for the Gwyl Cwrw Corris

Minutes

Present: Sadly, only Richard and Andy but we did manage to get it sorted

Apologies: Andy broke wind and apologised

AOB: Richard made up for the lack of members and ploughed into the Snowdonia Ale.

Date of next meeting: Next week

Present: Yes please I didn't get many for my Birthday.
1. Ensure drinks topped up
2. Apologies: Sorry
3. Drinks again
4. Name of Society / Group
5. More Drinks
6. AOB
7. Next Meeting

• Prospective members were dragged from the bar at 21.15 hrs to start the meeting.
• No apologies were given. Rude lot
• Members did what most committee members do and waffled for ages without making changes to the name of the society. Therefore it will remain as "The Braich Goch Cask Ale Society"
• A few changes were made to the Constitution. These were as follows:-

1. Mission statement should include the term " Primerally Real Ale" The fact that the society has the words 'CASK ALE' in its name seems to mean little to those pedantic ones among us.
2. Bill suggested that we should break with tradition and not just talk about sex, drugs, rock and roll, politics and religion.... Pervert.
3. Richard suggested that if we included NO LAGER Drinkers in paragraph 3 we would be doing the world a favour. All agreed
4. Eden suggested that more positions were required. much discussion took place about splinters in noses and carpet sniffing. Finally all committee members were given a special officer position to suit their talents.
5. Scratch suggested that there were insuficient smoking and drinking breaks during committee meetings. All agreed to increase the number of breaks from 4 per agenda item to 17.
6. Much discussion took place as to what constituted 'Running out of Ale' with regards to the winding up of the Society. The outcome was that the thought of the Ale running out was far to distressing to contemplate so the item would be removed from the constitution and the Landlord would be place under house arrest with the prospect of castration if the occasion occured.

• Officers were conscripted as follows:-

1. Choral Society - Ollie, Jane ( Had to fit them in somewhere )
2. First Aider - Bryn the Labrador ( Big enough to carry a Firkin round his neck )
3. Chairman - Eden ( Nobody else would do it )
4. Secretary - Andy ( Keeps control of the written word so no else can write rude things about other people especially himself, me )
5. Treasurer - Ann ( Only one who can add and subtract, smart ass )
6. Ale Master - Richard ( Self confessed Anorak when it comes to cask Ales )
7. Fun Arranger - Scratch ( You've only got to look at him )
8. Ambassador to All England - Julian ( Poor bugger was only visiting a relative and got dragged in. Well done Jules )
9. Party Host - Lizzi ( Less said )
10. Master of Ceremonies - Bill ( Gobby bugger that likes the souind of his own voice )
11. Wine Expert - Ian ( Know F*** all about ale )

• A birthday cake was presented to Richard, Lizzi and Bill. The choir tried to sing Penblwydd hapus i ti but Pedantic Richard put a stop to that by pointing out to the choir that because there were 3 birthdays it should be Penblwydd hapus i chi.
• Many thanks to Ann for the Cake
• Andy announced that the Gwyl Cwrw Corris was moving along. Ian Rutherford had given permission to use the extra car park at the Craft Centre. We could even use the Cafe if required. We were still awaiting a reply from the Tipi people regarding the accommodations.
• Andy announced that... ( does a lot of announcing doesn't he ) ...the date of the festival would be the weekend of the 21st February 2009
• Simon had done a great job on gertting the web site up and running.
• Date of next meeting Tuesday 25th november 2008

• Title: The Society's full name shall be " The Braich Goch Cask Ale Society"
• Mission Statement:
  " To develop and promote the The Braich Goch Cask Ale Society primarilly for the consumption of Real Ale ( Oh and for the benefit of the local community ). The society shall be non-sectarian, non-sober, non-political, non-profit making, maintain the traditions of talking about sex, drugs, rock and roll, politics, religion, more sex and absolute drivel (with the exception of Scratch who must attempt to make sense at least once each evening). The Society shall be a totally inclusive organization except where lager louts are concerned. "
• Membership:
  The Society will be open to individuals, groups, P*** heads or associations with an interest in promoting the objectives noted in point 2. "NO LAGER DRINKERS"
• Management:
  The day to day management of the Society will be in the hands of totally incompetent people. From now on they will be referred to as those "That must be obeyed."
• The Committee:

• AGM
  Whenever we can get enough people together to have a proper meeting without everybody getting drunk and very silly
• Behaviour
  All officers and committee members will be told what to do and how to behave.
• Quornm
  The meeting will be deemed to be quorate When the Boring B*****d ( Chairman ) is sober enough to decide if it's worth taking a vote on anything or even talking about anything.
• Meetings:
  Committee meetings shall be held when members can be dragged from the Bar
• lndemnities:
  No member of the committee will be responsible for anything. In the case of bad practice by any committee member the entire committee will band together and blame a non-committee member or politician whoever is closer at the time.
• The Winding up of the Association:
  When the ale runs out
  

Agreed ( Date) ...…………………………..

Signed ………...................….Position…..( Doggy )

Signed ………………………Position ….( Missionary )