Members of the Escambia Bay Homebrew Club have the following obligations and expectations.

OBLIGATIONS

1) Members are obligated to be familiar with the club's website, escambiabayhomebrewers.org, and especially with the club's bylaws listed there. According to the club's bylaws, “The club's mission is to further educate ourselves in the art of making fine adult beverages and to share the art of making these beverages with others that are interested in learning. We also strive to engender an appreciation of fine micro brewed and imported beers, wines and adult beverages among those of us who make them.”

2) Members are obligated to protect the integrity/reputation of the club when attending club sanctioned outings/events, events the club is officially participating in or when a member is acting on the club's behalf. We expect members to know what socially acceptable behavior is and what is appropriate, or not appropriate, at a given function.

3) Each member is obligated to sell $100 worth of beer festival tickets each year. The money coming from these ticket sales to the Emerald Coast Beer Festival (ECBF) will pay for the benefits we enjoy. Some of the benefits are: pizzas/food at meetings, top notch food at the Brew-BQ’s, free entry to chili/gumbo cook-offs, free shipping for homebrew competitions, Christmas parties, use of club owned brew-systems, etc. This way each member can use the ECBF as a vehicle to pay for their portion of the club’s budget obligations.

4) Members are obligated to respond, either positively or negatively, when an RSVP to an event has been requested. If they respond positively then find themselves unable to attend they should send an email to the member organizing the event cancelling the RSVP. If unable to send an email they should cancel by phone. Any member that RSVP’s positively but does not cancel should reimburse the club the cost it incurs for their not attending the event.

EXPECTATIONS

1) Members are expected to bring Home-brew-beer to all events. If a member does not have Home-Brew-beer to bring they should purchase beer in pitcher/6-pack quantities to share at the events. Homebrew is preferred but Micro-Brew-craft-beers are welcome as well.

2) Members are expected to be assets within the club. Ask yourself, how your membership benefits the club? Are you an asset? Do you help out when help is asked for? Are you doing anything to promote the mission of the club?

3) Probationary members new to brewing, are expected to attend gatherings designed to help them learn more about the brewing process. These are brew demonstrations, brew education programs, and to brew at least 3 batches of different styles of beer in a year.