Upper Cumberland Mashers (UCMashers)
The UCMashers was formed when a few local home brewers were asked to support a local charity. The Trail Blazers is a local charity working to establish a hiking trail along the railroad tracks between Cookeville, TN and Monterey TN. The first annual "Ale of the Trail" was held in November of 2007 and still continues today. This brew-off is held to nominate the best brew by taking donations and serving the various home brews of local brewers in the area to those that dononate to the cause.
To become a member there are no dues and membership is open to anyone with a love for home brewing. We have beer brewers, wine makers and mead makers in the club and they all contribute to the club in their own unique way. To join just sign up on this website.
The club meets at various places throughout the Upper Cumberlands. We are a social group and often move the meetings to special locations so watch the "Events" calendar. At the meetings, everyone is encouraged to bring homebrew for others to sample. If you have no homebrew to bring, you may feel free to bring your favorite commercial microbrew for "commercial calibration." If you have no homebrew to bring, a bag of chips will suffice for initiation. We occasionally put together a program to present at a meeting and sometimes even have food.
The club does organize events that will be posted on the website for all to view and attend if you wish.
As we are a new club and still working to create a more formalized organization, our meetings usually consist of our members talking brewing, drinking homebrew and discussing whatever else comes to mind.
If you have questions or would like more information please don't hestitate to contact us.
Happy Brewing!