Newsletter-March 1997
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March 1997 - New Officers BURPBURP NEWSNEWS - Competitions The Official Newsletter of - ‘Burg Pubs BREWERS UNITED FOR REAL POTABLES - And More! ”So Many Brews So Little Time” See the last page for a pull out March Calendar. Thanks to Lynne Ragazzini for the suggestion. March 15 at 1:00 PM Meeting at Alison Skeel’s home in Kensington. March 22, 1997 News Letter articles Due. April 19, 1997 Meeting at Langlie home in Kensington May, 1997 Meeting at Tom and Colleen Cannon’s home June, 1997 Meeting at Larry and Trish Koch’s home UPCOMING COMPETITIONS Contents: Note that the competition calendar is substantially changed: We will now try to match up our club competitions as closely as possible with the AHA Club Only competitions so that BURP Finances 2 members who want to participate in those competitions can do CANNON FODDER 2 so. Here are the club competitions for the next year. BURP Febrewary Meeting Report 3 Holy Waters; The Church Brew Works 4 March: German Ales: Alt and Kolsch Welcome New Members! 4 April: Bock *AHA: Bock is Best BURP Obituaries 5 May: Pilsner Competition Time! 5 June: Brown Ale Best of the (other) Newsletters 6 July: Extract Beers *AHA: Extract Extravaganza BURP Net report 7 August: India Pale Ale April Competition Style: Bock Beer 8 September: Vienna/Oktoberfest/Maerzen BURP Competitions 8 October: Two-fer Competition! March Calendar 9 1. Weird Beer Directions to the March Meeting 10 2. Wheat Beers *AHA: Weiss is Nice November: English Bitter *AHA: Bitter Mania December: No competition January: Pale Ales *AHA: Hail to Ale February: Stout Burp Officers Office Officer Phone Fearless Leader Tom Cannon (703) 352-1541 H Minister of Wendy Aaronson (301) 762-6523 H Education (301) 594-5649 W Minister of Culture Mark Stephens (703) 273-2108 H Minister of Truth Dan Brown (703) 271-6310 H Minister of Bill Ridgely (703) 971-5744 H Propaganda (301) 827-1391 W Minister of Finance Doug Kruth (703) 671-0857 H Libeerian Bob Cooke (703) 451-1540 H Minister of the Web Lynn Ashley (703) 522-5308 H BURP News March 1997 Page 2 BURP Finances CANNON By Doug Kruth, Minister of Finance FODDER 2/1/97 By Tom Cannon, Fearless Leader Category 2/16/97 Thanks everybody for the good attendance at the February meeting. ——————————————— ———————————— At least good enough to elect a pretty Inflows good slate of officers for 1997. It looks like we’ve got an good mix of experi- Interest Earned $6.40 ence and new ideas (I’ll try to think of something!) that should make the next Membership + $270.00 year a good one for BURP (and a lot of Donations $341.00 fun). Thanks to last years officers, ———————————— Larry Koch, and Dave and Becky Pyle. These guys worked hard and deserve Total Inflows $617.40 a lot of credit for the good beer times we had last year. For those of you who don’t know Outflows me, I’ve been a homebrewer for almost 7 years now, and a BURP member for McClaren Donation $50.00 6 years. Before I started brewing, I had Christmas Gifts $254.66 friends who brewed and I lived in Lon- don where homebrewing, though done Meeting $11.38 for a different reason, is common. Upon my return from England, I found Donations - $93.69 there were styles of beer I was used to ———————————— drinking which I could not get com- mercially in the United States. When Total Outflows $409.73 my parents left the area to retire to Florida, I was left with my Dad’s old steel bench capper which had been Overall Total $207.67 used to make root beer. Ah -- my first piece of brewing equipment! ============ Within a month, fellow BURPer Pat Crowe and I had made our first trip to Miles Smith’s first homebrew BURP Account Balances shop (in his house) and we were off brewing an IPA. Surprisingly, the fin- ished product tasted pretty good (to us). Pat and I were hooked. Cash $0.00 We’ve done a lot of things in our Payable $0.00 brewing process to improve our beer, but I believe that the single most im- Receivable $0.00 portant step we’ve made in our quest to make better beer was to become Savings $3,061.06 active BURP members. Checking $4,240.44 ———————————— See FODDER Pg. 3 Networth $7,301.50 ============ BURP News March 1997 Page 3 FODDER, From Pg. 2 and we were in. The monthly meetings BURP is probably the largest are one of the biggest perks of BURP pure homebrewing club in the coun- membership, and if you haven’t been try. We’ve got members who are pro- to one, I look forward to seeing you at fessional beer brewers, beer writers, a meeting in the near future. beer judges, beer hunters -- BEER I better wrap this up now. We’ve GEEKS. We’ve had mashtun work- got a busy year ahead and with Spring shops, brewpot workshops, hop buys, fast approaching we should start get- grain buys, you name it. This is not to ting ready for a few things. First, the mention the 5% discount at the local first round AHA nationals are going homebrew shops. to be held in May. I highly recommend BURP is a great resource. The BURP members put beers into this $15 membership fee is a steal. The best competition. In the past, we have un- way to access the real benefits of fortunately been placed in a region BURP membership, however, is to par- where we have had less than stellar ticipate. Pat and I were members of judging of our beer. This year, our re- BURP for a year before we went to our gion will be judged in Atlanta where I first meeting. The first meeting is al- know there are many more qualified ways a little intimidating. judges. We can expect some pretty Our Fearless Leader The first one we went to was the good feedback. February Stout competition at Oxon BURP will pay to get your beers BURP has a lot of really good brewers Hill in 1993. We entered our stout into to Atlanta. Just bring your beers to the and it’s about time we started to get the competition, got a 19 with only one April meeting and we will handle ship- some recognition. comment on the judging form - PROB- ping. If you have any questions on how To quote our past Fearless LEMS!!! How’s that for intimidating. to enter the first round Nationals, con- Leader, Larry Koch, “WE ARE BURP”. But by the end of the meeting, we tact Mark Stevens. The officers don’t run this club, the talked to a lot of the judges, the then The second event to get ready for volunteers do. Get involved and this Minister of Culture, Rick Garvin, and is the fourth Spirit of Free Beer. We should be a great year. the then Fearless Leader, Wendy will be accepting entries for this com- Aaronson, plus a lot of other BURPers, petition in late May. Start brewing. BURP Febrewary holidays (I grew up in Lexington, Ken- during judging, and rumor has it that tucky and found the accusation of at least one person was seen dumping Meeting Report Joisey citizenship very upsetting). beer into the bucket. That explains By Polly Goldman BURPer Roger Allers is now married, any off tastes anyone might have de- although he showed up without the tected. Our February meeting took place new spouse. I guess he didn’t want to One of the personal highlights of on a Tuesday evening unhampered by scare her off. I understand this, too. the meeting for me was the delivery snow, ice, blizzard, hurricane, rain, or Bruce and I were married for about 4 of my Koch’s Kmasher Recirculating sleet. Despite the good weather and years before the family let me see the Infusion Mash System from Larry dry roads, attendance was a bit down aunt and uncle’s house of horrible Koch. Larry gave me a quick run- from usual, and we had only 18 stouts decorating mistakes from the 60’s in down on operations and affirmed that entered in our competition. But, ev- New Jersey. End of public service most of my questions were answered eryone who made it had a good time, announcements. in the instructions. Time got tight this nibbling on the food and sharing beers. Last time we were at the Jaycees, weekend, so I can’t tell you how it Before I get too deep into my we had about half a dozen hand pumps works yet. For those of you keeping ramblings, I have a brief public ser- lined up, serving cask conditioned ales. track, the RIMS system was our 10th vice announcement. Bret Wortman This time, in honor of the beer style of anniversary present to each other. is not married. He reports that many the month, Dave Pyle brought his ni- The hand pump was for our 9th anni- people seem to think he is married. trogen tap set-up and a nice stout. versary. Hallmark, eat your heart out OK Bret, the record is now straight. I Unfortunately, he was having settling with your nasty housewares and gems understand how annoying this can be. problems, and was tapping into a plas- anniversary list! When I was in college, people thought tic bucket that people were supposed Tom Cannon helped Dave Pyle I was from New Jersey, and even of- to dip from.