June 2004 15 Harvard Court (301) 762-6523; [email protected] Rockville, MD 20850 It’S Been a Busy Two Months Since Our Last Newsletter
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RS UN E IT W E E D R BURP NEWS B The Official Newsletter of the BREWERS UNITED FOR REAL POTABLES F B U R P S O E R VA D " Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is" DC M L R B E A Denny Conn A L P O T Bill Ridgely, Editor June 2004 15 Harvard Court (301) 762-6523; [email protected] Rockville, MD 20850 It’s been a busy two months since our last newsletter. The April meeting at the Graham’s house in Darnestown, Maryland and the May meeting at the Allers’ house in Fairfax were great Spring outdoor meetings. The BURP weather mojo is hot this year!! I pulled up at Sara and Ken Graham’s house for the April meeting to unload the truck and smelled scallops. They had the paella June Meeting ready for us. They are the only people I know that Strong Belgian Ale Competition & have a propane-fired paella stand and a shallow SOFB XII Entry Dropoff paella pan that is probably four feet across. The Potomac, MD seafood paella they make is splendid. Many thanks for having us and feeding us so well! It was a hot Saturday, June 5, 2004 day, but the big trees shaded things nicely, and the 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM hammocks were full of relaxed BURPers and mini- BURPers. Thanks to Sara and Ken for being most excellent and generous hosts. Spirit of Free Beer XII The May meeting was again the site of the hotly June 12, 2004 contested BURP Chili Competition. The threatening weather never arrived, and it ended up being a sunscreen day. Thanks to Christina and Dan Allers for being great hosts again this year. July Meeting Christine and I always get in the spirit of the event. European Light Lager Competition Christine is very competitive and had our chili Nokesville, VA serving station setup with lots of appropriate Saturday, July 24, 2004 decorations. We make awesome chili but got beat on the chili voting. The top 3 chilis were great and 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM Team Jackalope took home the blue ribbon. I especially enjoyed Tim Artz’s smoky chili and Christian Parker’s bright and sharp tasting chili. MASHOUT XVII Woody, Dona, Sparky and Danger made great chili and won a second place ribbon. Sparky and August 20-22, 2004 Danger traveled from Chicago to compete for the second year in a row. Trish Koch managed to have the largest beans I have seen in a chili pot; Garvin’s Grist and they were good, too. Christine and I won By Rick Garvin, Fearless Leader hottest chili and took home our third toilet plunger trophy compliments of the plunge-meister Bob __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please submit all articles for publication in either plain text or Microsoft Word format to the e-mail address above. Do not include graphic files. Deadline for articles is 2 weeks before each scheduled BURP meeting unless otherwise indicated. BURP News June 2004 Page 2 Kepler. Thanks to John Dittmann for running the brewery on Jost Van Dyke island at Foxy’s in the chili contest. The “The Best Beer to go with Chili British Virgin Islands. The beers are pretty good for ®” was Christine and my Frankische Kellerbier for an extract brewery. Especially considering that they the second year in a row. Last year Kathy Koch have to desalinate seawater because there is no brewed this with us. This year Kathy made her own water source on the island. Even better was the Ungespundet-style Kellerbier. The voters seem to steady diet of Foreign Extra Stout. There are 6 or 7 prefer the clear, cold and crisp styles with chili. The varieties available. Mmmm, good beach beer! Best of Show judges at the BUZZ Off contest in West Chester, Pennsylvania agreed. Christine and I Cheers, Rick took our first BOS ribbon as a brewing team on May 21. Congratulations for BURP ribbon winners in ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? BUZZ Off. BURPers Cal Perilloux, Mel Thompson, Ed Bielaus, and the Christine RYDler Lewis and Rick Garvin team who collectively took home 11 ribbons! Q: BURP is quite fortunate to have many talented published beer writers in its midst. Do you know Our own Spirit of Free Beer homebrew competition them? is coming up in June. This is a great contest with awesome judges and 12 years of history. The team ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? is doing a great job and I’m looking forward to judging. You can drop off your entries at the June 5th BURP meeting at Rod Rydlun’s house. Thanks to Rod for hosting us. He has a great venue that works out very nicely for checking in the Spirit of Free Beer entries. We are going to need some help from non-judges to get the beers checked in and organized at the Old Dominion Brewing Company on June 6th. Contact the Dave and Becky Pyle if you are interested in helping out. This is a working 12th Annual Spirit of Free Beer activity, not a drinking one! By Dave and Becky Pyle, SOFB-XII Organizers MASHOUT is coming in August. This has become a BURP signature event that folks travel from New The last day to enter your beers for Spirit of Free England, Ohio, and North Carolina to attend. We Beer 2004 will June 5th at our monthly BURP need to do a good bit of work on Popenoe Meeting at Rod Rydlun’s house in Potomac, Mountain to overcome damage from a Winter ice Maryland. We are expecting a flood of entries, and storm. Please pitch in on the scheduled work Mark Hogenmiller along with the Pyles will be weekend. Chain saws needed!! set up and ready for registration when you arrive. Remember your first entry is $6.00, and all The Spirit of Belgium IV is coming together for subsequent entries are $5.00 each. January 2005. We worked with the Arlington County, Fairfax County and Washington, DC The feedback you will receive from our many Convention & Visitors Bureaus to send out an RFP experienced BJCP Judges is priceless. for the venue. Responses are coming in, and it looks like our first choice of the January 14-16 BURP has the best prizes in the country which is a Martin Luther King Day weekend is going to work terrific reason to enter. Rob Hanson, our prize out. Please contact me if you are interested in coordinator, has a wonderful array of prizes in joining the organizer team. store for us. Christine, Elizabeth, Anastasia and I enjoyed our trip to the Virgin Islands in April for Spring Confirmed Sponsors to date include: break. We had the opportunity to check out the All About Beer Magazine *AHA * Anchor Brewing BURP News June 2004 Page 3 Company * Beer, Beer and More Beer * Brewers (2 or more brewers) and, especially since it is at Alley * Briess Malting Company * Cairo Wine and Mashout, kegs are requested. Liquor * California Concentrate Company * Cargill Malt - Specialty Products Group * Crosby and Baker Septembeer – Oktobeerfest Civil War. Team * Deschutes Brewery * * The Flying Barrel * brew Maryland/DC versus Virginia. There is still Franklin’s Restaurant, Brewery and General Store * time to brew a BJCP category 9 Vienna or Harpoon Brewery * HopUnion USA, Inc. * Jay's Maertzen. Brewing Supplies* Koch's Koncepts * Magic Hat Brewing Company * Mid-Atlantic Brewing News * Octobeer – India Pale Ale and Imperial IPA. MD HomeBrew * New Belgium Brewing Company * BJCP category 7, IPA and new (soon to be Old Dominion Brewing Company * The Olde adopted) category, Imperial IPA. Guidelines for the Heurich Brewing Company * ProMash * Rock Bottom Brewery Bethesda * Rogue Ales * SABCO IIPA or IPA² will be in next month’s newsletter. Industries * Sierra Nevada Restaurant and Brewery * Summit Station Restaurant and Brewery * Competition results: Sweetwater Tavern * Toledo Metal Spinning * Troegs Brewing Company and General Store * April – Big Beers. Andy Anderson nearly pulled Victory Brewing Company off a sweep in the April big beer competition. His American Barleywine and English Barleywine went For full details and registration forms, visit the 1-2 and only the exceptional Old Ale of Bill and rd SOFB website at: Christie Newman in 3 place kept Andy from garnering all the ribbons. Five beers went forward http://www.burp.org/events/sofb/2004/. to the Best of Show round, and four of them were Andy’s! This brewer certainly knows how to brew Good luck and Cheers, Dave & Becky monster beers! Now if he will only bring a keg or two to BURP meetings to share … Minister of Culture Corner The Best Beer to go with Chili competition By Mel Thompson & Dave Pyle, brought out some really delicious thirst quenchers Co-Ministers of Culture to compliment the homemade chilis made and shared by BURP cooks. Third place went to the Club Competition Schedule wonderful Helles of Bob and Betsy Kepler; second place was an uncommon California June - Strong Belgian Ales, BJCP category 18. Common made by the brewing team of Steve This category includes dubbels, tripels, strong Marler, Pat and Janet Crowe and Colleen and golden and strong dark ales. The competition will Tom Cannon; and first place, for the second year be held “off-line” (further details at the end of this in a row, went to Rick Garvin and Christine article). Results will be posted to BURPlist following Lewis for their tasty Kellerbier. the competition. HOT OFF THE PRESS! The Kellerbier of Garvin July - European Pale Lagers, BJCP category 2. and Lewis takes Best of Show at the BUZZOFF!!!!! Includes Bohemian Pilsner, North German Pilsner, BURPers Calvin Perilloux, Ed Beilaus and Mel Dortmunder Export and Muenchner Helles.