About CLASS
CLASS is a 50/50 mix of homebrewers and beer tasters gathering once a month to share our homebrewing projects and commercial brews in a monthly themed beer style (or three). See the Tasting Schedule below.
Monthly Meeting
CLASS gathers on the second Tuesday of every month, except December, at Advantage Beer & Wine Supplies. (MAP)
- What you should bring: (3) 12-ounce bottles or (2) 22-ounce bombers of a commercial brew in the monthly beer style OR your latest homebrew project. You are certainly welcome to bring more, but please don't bring less. You will be well-rewarded as a typical meeting can be 20 to 30 beers to sample.
- First timers need not bring anything (unless you want to). Sit in on a meeting and check us out.
Brewer's Meeting
The brewers of CLASS gather on the last Wednesday of every month on the back deck of Olde Hickory Station. (MAP)
- What you should bring: (2) 12-ounce bottles or (1) 22-ounce bombers of your latest homebrew project or projects.
The Rewards of Membership
For the sake of easy administration, membership is $15 and runs January to December. Your dues help pay for the incidentals of running the club, sponsoring the annual Hickory Pro Am homebrew competition, the Christmas party, and facilities rental. It does not buy any beer for the meetings and for that reason is not pro-rated if you jump in mid-year. It's not much, and there are some nice benefits.
- 10% off at Advantage Beer & Wine Supplies (Facebook)
- 10% off at Hops and Grapes, Hickory, NC (bottle store) (Facebook)
- 10% off at Alternative Beverage, Charlotte, NC (beer and wine supplier)
- 10% off at Beer & Wine Hobbies Int’l, Charlotte and Mooresville
- 10% off purchases consumed in store 5% on carry out at Wine Maestro, Statesville
Where to Get the Craft Beer in Bottles
Here are some places around Hickory, NC that carry bottled craft beer. Facebook us with your goto brew stores.
CLASS Brewery Incubator
Two CLASS members used the club and Pro Am competition as an incubator for their commercial breweries. Stop by and support these local craft brew pioneers.
The Tasting Schedule
January – Cask-conditioned BeersFebruary – Barleywines and Old Ales
- Bourbon-barrel Aged – (Olde Hickory Event Horizon, Epic Big Bad Baptist Stout)
- Cask-conditioned – (Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard, Terrapin Oaked Big Hoppy Monster, Foothill's Barrel Aged People's Porter)
March – Stouts and Porters
- English Old Ale – (Theakston's Old Peculiar, Thomas Hardy, Howard General Lenoir)
- English Barleywines – ( Young's Old Nick, Ridgeway Criminally Bad Elf)
- American Barleywines – (Anchor Old Foghorn, Rogue Old Crustacean)
- Triple IPA -- Stone RuinTENation, Founders Devil Dancer
April – Bitters and Pale Ales
- Dry Stout – (Guinness Draught, Murphy's)
- Oatmeal Stout – (Anderson Valley Barney Flats, Young's)
- Foreign & Imperial Stout – (Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout, North Coast Old Rasputin)
- Brown Porter – (Anchor, Sam Smith's Taddy Porter, Foothill's People's Porter)
- Robust Porter – (Sierra Nevada, Highland Oatmeal Porter)
- Baltic Porter – (Duck-Rabbit, Uinta Crooked Line)
May – Belgian and French Ales
- Ordinary Bitter – (Boddington Draught)
- Special Bitter – (Young's Ramrod, Fuller's London Pride)
- Extra Special Bitter – (Fuller's, Olde Hickory, Green Man)
- English Pale Ale – (Samuel Smith's, Bass)
- English IPA – (Green Man, Carolina Brewery Flagship, Sam Smith's India Ale)
- American Pale Ale – (Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale)
- California Common – (Anchor Steam)
June – India Pale Ales, Imperial/Double IPAs, Black And White IPAs
- Single – (La Trappe, Witkap Pater)
- Dubbel – (Affligem, La Trappe, Ommegang)
- Tripel – (Westmalle, St Bernardus)
- Quadrupel – (Boulevard, Sierra Nevada Ovila)
- Strong Golden & Dark Ales – (Orval, Duvel, Chimay)
July – Light Lagers, Wits And Summer Beers, Cream Ales
- American IPA – (Terrapin Hopsecutioner, Olde Hickory Table Rock)
- Imperial/Double IPA – (Southern Tier 2XIPA, Lagunitas Hop Stoopid)
- Black IPA – (21st Amendment Back in Black, Heavy Seas Black Cannon)
- White IPA – (Mendocino, Saranac)
August – German Ales, Wheat Beers, Dopplebocks, Rauchbier
- Light Lagers – (Victory Lager, Bitburger, Stella Artois)
- Pilsner – (Victory Prima Pilsner, Foothills Torch, Pilsner Urquell)
- Wit/White Ale – (Mother Earth Weeping Willow, Hoegaarden, Catawba Valley White Zombie)
- Summer Beers – (Bell's Oberon, Anderson Valley Summer Solstice)
- Cream Ales – (Catawba Valley Farmer Ted, Genessee)
September – Oktoberfest, Amber And Dark Lagers
- Kolsch – (Mother Earth Endless River, Sam Adams East West Kolsch)
- American Wheat – (Widmer Hefeweizen, Anchor Wheat)
- Bavarian Wheat – (Olde Hickory Hefeweizen, Schneider Weiss)
- Dunkelweizen – (Hacker-Pschorr, Weihenstephaner)
- Weizenbock – (Schneider Aventinus)
October – Brown, Scottish And Strong Scotch Ales
- Oktoberfests – (Paulaner, Spaten)
- American Oktoberfests – (Victory, French Broad, Sam Adams)
- Munich Dunkel – (Spaten)
- Schwarzbier – (Köstritzer, Dark Horse, Duck-Rabbit)
- Bock – (Paulaner)
- Helles/Maibock – (Ayinger, New Belgium Hoppy Bock)
- Rauchbier – (Aecht Schlenkerla)
- Dopplebock – (Aventinus, Ayinger, Paulaner)
November – Biere de Garde, Saison, Belgium/Flemish Sour, American Sour
- Scottish Light, Heavy & Export – (McEwen's Export, Belhaven, MacAndrews)
- Scotch Ale – (McEwen's, Traquair House)
- English Brown – (Samuel Smith, Newcastle, Tilburg)
- American Brown – (Duck-Rabbit, Brooklyn Brown)
December – Christmas Party And Potluck Dinner
- Biere de Garde –( Jerlain, Ommegang)
- Saison – (Saison du Pont, Great Divide Colette, Stone Saison)
- Belgium/Flemish Sour – (Monk's Flemish, Bockor, Rodenbach Vintage)
- American Sour – (New Belgium La Folie, The Bruery Sour in the Rye, Cascade)
- Bring a dish – (preferably made with beer) to share
- Fruit – (Lindemann's lambics, Abita Purple Haze, Sam Smith's)
- Christmas – (Olde Hickory, Rogue, Anchor Our Special Ale)
- Winter – (Avery Jubilation, Lagunitas Sucks)
- Specialty – (Rogue Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana, Well Banana Bread Beer
Olde Hickory–Howard Brewing Pro Am Competition
CLASS in conjunction with Olde Hickory Brewery and Howard Brewing Company sponsor a homebrewer's competition in the Spring of each year. Details about the next competition will be posted starting in January 2016, but as a reference you can view this year's details here.
Click here for the 2016 Pro Am Competition Results
Click here for the 2015 Pro Am Competition Results
Click here for the 2014 Pro Am Competition Results
Annual Events
CLASS participates in a number of beer events each year:
- Olde Hickory-Howard Brewing Pro Am Competition - see details above.
- Hickory Hops Beer Festival - Held in April of each year on the square in Downtown Hickory, North Carolina. CLASS ponies up a number of homebrews alongside the 25-30 commercial breweries. Donate a keg to the cause and get free admission.
- Charlotte Oktoberfest - The Fall counterpart to Hickory Hops, we pack our tent, taps and kegs and travel to Charlotte. Donate a keg to the cause and get free admission.
- National Learn to Homebrew Day - The first Saturday in November each year, the American Homebrewer's Association has established this event to help anyone interested in learning to brew. CLASS organizes a local event on this day consisting of a day-long brew session with multiple homebrewers.
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