Central Iowa Beekeepers Association
September Face-to-Face Meeting
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Reserve this date - we hope you will join us! You do not need to be a CIBA member to attend, but we hope this meeting will entice you to join our organization!
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Location
Northridge Baptist Church, 3700 6th Avenue, Des Moines
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NOTE: Park in the lot on Clinton Avenue but enter the building by the door near the alley (not Clinton Avenue), where there is a wheelchair ramp. Picture below to assist in identifying the church entrance:
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Schedule: We’ll have a business meeting (including election of a new treasurer) andsnacks, followed by this program, “What is Mead and How Honey Influences the FinalProduct” by Scott Dennis
Business Meeting
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SCOTT DENNIS
If you’ve tried mead and did not like it, you may change your mind after CIBA’s September member meeting. Scott Dennis is an expert mead maker, also a certified beer, mead and cider judge and founding member of the local home brew club, the Iowa Brewers Union. He has been brewing and judging since 2000 and has judged more than 120 homebrew contests throughout the Midwest. After tasting his first mead, he became hooked and has focused on making and judging them ever since. Scott has undergraduate and doctorate degrees in microbiology. He worked 38 years as a microbiologist and fermentation expert for Pioneer. His other hobbies
include birdwatching, barbecue, history and biking.​
CIBA members also will get a first look at a unique program that aims to build pollinator ambassadors by connectingbeekeepers with educators and young people. Members of the CIBA Pollination Education Program committee havebeen working all summer on this project. They are anxious to share how you can be part of this new program.