Received: from srvr22.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr22.engin.umich.edu [141.213.75.21]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA26173 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:07:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from synchro.com (cccox.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.136.73]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA13918 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:07:30 -0500 (EST) From: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" To: "Digest Recipients" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Subject: Digest for the period 01/24/00 - 01/25/00 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:04:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="Next_Part_SYNC7201142751" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 Status: RO --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Table of contents ------------------------------------------------------ DMY2K - Drunk Monk Challenge call for judges (Formanek, Joe) Re: Out to lunch? (NATHAN T Moore) --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Received: from sentinel.griffithlabs.com ([208.134.193.1]) by synchro.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.1.4.1073) id SYNC7185141A54 for judge at synchro.com; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:07:27 -0500 Received: from sentinel.griffithlabs.com (root at localhost) by sentinel.griffithlabs.com with ESMTP id IAA04966 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:07:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from alsip-nt3.Griffithlabs.com (ALSIP-NT3.GRIFFITHLABS.COM [192.168.1.175]) by sentinel.griffithlabs.com with ESMTP id IAA04962 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:07:36 -0600 (CST) Received: by ALSIP-NT3.GRIFFITHLABS.COM with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:10:33 -0600 Message-ID: <4230C38A2B97D111B7250000F800430001259190 at ALSIP-NT3.GRIFFITHLABS.COM> From: "Formanek, Joe" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Errors-To: judge-owner at synchro.com Sender: judge at synchro.com To: JudgeNet - the beer judge digest Subject: DMY2K - Drunk Monk Challenge call for judges Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:10:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain X-Hops: 3 X-POST-MessageClass: 10; Mailing List Message THE DRUNK MONK CHALLENGE March 4, 2000 Sponsored by the Urban Knaves of Grain The Urban Knaves of Grain will host the 2nd Annual Drunk Monk Challenge homebrew competition on March 4 at Two Brothers Brewery in Warrenville, IL. The competition is AHA/BJCP sanctioned and will accept all styles of beer, cider, and mead according to the 1999 BJCP style guidelines. It is a qualifying event for the 2000 Midwest Homebrewer of the Year Award. Once again, we'll feature the Menace of the Monastery, a special category for beer styles which recall the monastic brewing traditions of Belgium and Germany: Belgian dubbel, tripel, pale, strong pale, and strong dark ales, plus German doppelbock. Requirements: 2 bottles. $5 fee per entry ($4 each for 5 or more entries) for the main competition; just $2 each for Menace entries. Entry deadline is Feb. 26. Many Options: Ship your entries to The Drunk Monk Challenge, c/o Two Brothers Brewery, 30W114 Butterfield Rd., Warrenville, IL 60555. Or drop them off in person at The Brewers Coop, located at Two Brothers Brewery; or at The Homebrew Shop, 1434 E. Main St. in St. Charles. Or bring them to the Feb. 24 UKG meeting at John's Buffet in Winfield, IL, or to CBS First Thursday on March 2 at Goose Island brewpub in Chicago. Judges and stewards can also bring entries on the morning of the competition. (First Thursday and competition-day entries must be preregistered by mailing paperwork and fees to our shipping address before Feb. 26.) Prizes: Ribbons for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in each category plus BoS and Menace. 1st in the Best of Show and Menace of the Monastery rounds also receive a commemorative plaque. Complimentary DMC tasting glass for all volunteers. Speaking of Volunteers: Please help! BJCP judges and apprentices, please contact judge coordinator Joe Formanek (jformanek at griffithlabs.com, 630-378-4694) or competition chairman Steve McKenna (mckennst at earthlink.net, 630-305-0554) to volunteer. Fun stuff: Volunteers Party the night before. Potluck dinner at the brewery after the competition. Plus the ever-popular raffle. Information, Rules, and Entry Forms: Available at the competition website, http://www.synsysinc.com/srcoombs/ukgdmc/ukgdmc2k.htm, or contact Steve McKenna. Cheers!!! Joe Formanek --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Received: from smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us ([165.127.8.106]) by synchro.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.1.4.1073) id SYNC7190141CB0 for judge at synchro.com; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:49:28 -0500 Received: from DPHED1-Message_Server by smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:48:25 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:48:04 -0700 From: "NATHAN T Moore" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Errors-To: judge-owner at synchro.com Sender: judge at synchro.com To: JudgeNet - the beer judge digest Subject: Re: Out to lunch? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Hops: 3 X-POST-MessageClass: 10; Mailing List Message To continue on the off topic, the tie between luncheon and a noon drink is = also mentioned in "Curiosities of Ale and Beer", originaly published = around 1890. So if it is a falsehood, it has been around for at least 100 = years. Nathan Moore >>> Jeff Renner 01/21 6:58 AM >>> >"Nunchion", the medieval word for alcohol enjoyed at the midday meal, >was a combination of "noon scheken", which meant noon drinking. A large >chunk of bread was called "lunch". Eating bread with nunchion resulted in >our modern word, luncheon. -- Beer Fact, 365 Bottles of Beer for the Year Under the category, "You shouldn't believe everything you read," this appears to be untrue, at least according to the 2nd edition of Oxford English Dictionary, a pretty authoritative source. >From OED: lunch, sb.2 [Perh. evolved from lump sb.1, on the analogy of the apparent relation between hump and hunch, bump and bunch. Cf. `Lounge, a large = lump, as of bread or cheese' (Brockett N. Country Words, ed. 2, 1829). It is curious that the word first appears as a rendering of the (at that time) like-sounding Sp. lonja slice of ham. luncheon, commonly believed to be a derivative of lunch, occurs in our quots. 11 years earlier, with its present spelling. In sense 2 lunch was an abbreviation of luncheon, first appearing about 1829, when it was regarded either as a vulgarism or as a fashionable affectation. ] *** luncheon Also 7 lunchen, lunchion, lunching, 7-8 lunchin, 8 lunshin. [Related in some way to lunch sb.2The ordinary view, that the spelling lunching represents the etymological form, appears somewhat unlikely. In our quots. the earliest form is luncheon, and this appears in our quots. earlier than lunch; and there is no evidence of a derivative verb in the 16-17th c. It is possible that luncheon might have been extended from = lunch on the analogy of the relation between punch, puncheon, trunch, truncheon. = ] And a search in OED for "nunchion" yields: "0 matches." While I'm at it, I am suspicious of the often cited alleged quote from Benjamin Franklin, "Beer is proof that God exists and want us to be = happy," and variations on it. I've also seen it with wine rather than beer, and also in both forms attributed to Thomas Jefferson as well. Has anyone = ever seen this authoritatively attributed? Jeff -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- Jeff Renner in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA, c/o nerenner at umich.edu=20 "One never knows, do one?" Fats Waller, American Musician, 1904-1943.=20 --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751-- Received: from srvr22.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr22.engin.umich.edu [141.213.75.21]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA26173 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:07:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from synchro.com (cccox.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.136.73]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA13918 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:07:30 -0500 (EST) From: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" To: "Digest Recipients" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Subject: Digest for the period 01/24/00 - 01/25/00 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:04:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="Next_Part_SYNC7201142751" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 Status: RO --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Table of contents ------------------------------------------------------ DMY2K - Drunk Monk Challenge call for judges (Formanek, Joe) Re: Out to lunch? (NATHAN T Moore) --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Received: from sentinel.griffithlabs.com ([208.134.193.1]) by synchro.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.1.4.1073) id SYNC7185141A54 for judge at synchro.com; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:07:27 -0500 Received: from sentinel.griffithlabs.com (root at localhost) by sentinel.griffithlabs.com with ESMTP id IAA04966 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:07:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from alsip-nt3.Griffithlabs.com (ALSIP-NT3.GRIFFITHLABS.COM [192.168.1.175]) by sentinel.griffithlabs.com with ESMTP id IAA04962 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:07:36 -0600 (CST) Received: by ALSIP-NT3.GRIFFITHLABS.COM with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:10:33 -0600 Message-ID: <4230C38A2B97D111B7250000F800430001259190 at ALSIP-NT3.GRIFFITHLABS.COM> From: "Formanek, Joe" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Errors-To: judge-owner at synchro.com Sender: judge at synchro.com To: JudgeNet - the beer judge digest Subject: DMY2K - Drunk Monk Challenge call for judges Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:10:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain X-Hops: 3 X-POST-MessageClass: 10; Mailing List Message THE DRUNK MONK CHALLENGE March 4, 2000 Sponsored by the Urban Knaves of Grain The Urban Knaves of Grain will host the 2nd Annual Drunk Monk Challenge homebrew competition on March 4 at Two Brothers Brewery in Warrenville, IL. The competition is AHA/BJCP sanctioned and will accept all styles of beer, cider, and mead according to the 1999 BJCP style guidelines. It is a qualifying event for the 2000 Midwest Homebrewer of the Year Award. Once again, we'll feature the Menace of the Monastery, a special category for beer styles which recall the monastic brewing traditions of Belgium and Germany: Belgian dubbel, tripel, pale, strong pale, and strong dark ales, plus German doppelbock. Requirements: 2 bottles. $5 fee per entry ($4 each for 5 or more entries) for the main competition; just $2 each for Menace entries. Entry deadline is Feb. 26. Many Options: Ship your entries to The Drunk Monk Challenge, c/o Two Brothers Brewery, 30W114 Butterfield Rd., Warrenville, IL 60555. Or drop them off in person at The Brewers Coop, located at Two Brothers Brewery; or at The Homebrew Shop, 1434 E. Main St. in St. Charles. Or bring them to the Feb. 24 UKG meeting at John's Buffet in Winfield, IL, or to CBS First Thursday on March 2 at Goose Island brewpub in Chicago. Judges and stewards can also bring entries on the morning of the competition. (First Thursday and competition-day entries must be preregistered by mailing paperwork and fees to our shipping address before Feb. 26.) Prizes: Ribbons for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in each category plus BoS and Menace. 1st in the Best of Show and Menace of the Monastery rounds also receive a commemorative plaque. Complimentary DMC tasting glass for all volunteers. Speaking of Volunteers: Please help! BJCP judges and apprentices, please contact judge coordinator Joe Formanek (jformanek at griffithlabs.com, 630-378-4694) or competition chairman Steve McKenna (mckennst at earthlink.net, 630-305-0554) to volunteer. Fun stuff: Volunteers Party the night before. Potluck dinner at the brewery after the competition. Plus the ever-popular raffle. Information, Rules, and Entry Forms: Available at the competition website, http://www.synsysinc.com/srcoombs/ukgdmc/ukgdmc2k.htm, or contact Steve McKenna. Cheers!!! Joe Formanek --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Received: from smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us ([165.127.8.106]) by synchro.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.1.4.1073) id SYNC7190141CB0 for judge at synchro.com; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:49:28 -0500 Received: from DPHED1-Message_Server by smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:48:25 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:48:04 -0700 From: "NATHAN T Moore" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Errors-To: judge-owner at synchro.com Sender: judge at synchro.com To: JudgeNet - the beer judge digest Subject: Re: Out to lunch? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Hops: 3 X-POST-MessageClass: 10; Mailing List Message To continue on the off topic, the tie between luncheon and a noon drink is = also mentioned in "Curiosities of Ale and Beer", originaly published = around 1890. So if it is a falsehood, it has been around for at least 100 = years. Nathan Moore >>> Jeff Renner 01/21 6:58 AM >>> >"Nunchion", the medieval word for alcohol enjoyed at the midday meal, >was a combination of "noon scheken", which meant noon drinking. A large >chunk of bread was called "lunch". Eating bread with nunchion resulted in >our modern word, luncheon. -- Beer Fact, 365 Bottles of Beer for the Year Under the category, "You shouldn't believe everything you read," this appears to be untrue, at least according to the 2nd edition of Oxford English Dictionary, a pretty authoritative source. >From OED: lunch, sb.2 [Perh. evolved from lump sb.1, on the analogy of the apparent relation between hump and hunch, bump and bunch. Cf. `Lounge, a large = lump, as of bread or cheese' (Brockett N. Country Words, ed. 2, 1829). It is curious that the word first appears as a rendering of the (at that time) like-sounding Sp. lonja slice of ham. luncheon, commonly believed to be a derivative of lunch, occurs in our quots. 11 years earlier, with its present spelling. In sense 2 lunch was an abbreviation of luncheon, first appearing about 1829, when it was regarded either as a vulgarism or as a fashionable affectation. ] *** luncheon Also 7 lunchen, lunchion, lunching, 7-8 lunchin, 8 lunshin. [Related in some way to lunch sb.2The ordinary view, that the spelling lunching represents the etymological form, appears somewhat unlikely. In our quots. the earliest form is luncheon, and this appears in our quots. earlier than lunch; and there is no evidence of a derivative verb in the 16-17th c. It is possible that luncheon might have been extended from = lunch on the analogy of the relation between punch, puncheon, trunch, truncheon. = ] And a search in OED for "nunchion" yields: "0 matches." While I'm at it, I am suspicious of the often cited alleged quote from Benjamin Franklin, "Beer is proof that God exists and want us to be = happy," and variations on it. I've also seen it with wine rather than beer, and also in both forms attributed to Thomas Jefferson as well. Has anyone = ever seen this authoritatively attributed? Jeff -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- Jeff Renner in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA, c/o nerenner at umich.edu=20 "One never knows, do one?" Fats Waller, American Musician, 1904-1943.=20 --Next_Part_SYNC7201142751--