Subject: Digest for the period 1/16/2003 - 1/17/2003 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:01:18 -0500 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 9th Annual Boston Homebrew Competition - March 8, 2003 (John B. Doherty) 2. Meadllennium VI Competition (Malcolm L. Monroe) 3. Washoe Zephyr Zymurgists' Homebrew Competition 2003 (John C. Tull) 4. Style Calculator (Steve Casselman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John B. Doherty Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:26:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: 9th Annual Boston Homebrew Competition - March 8, 2003 Dear Fellow Beer Judges, The Boston Wort Processors are pleased to formally announce the Ninth Annual BOSTON HOMEBREW COMPETITION (BHC9) to be held on March 8th, 2003! This competition is run by the Boston Wort Processors Homebrew Club and is a BJCP Registered Event. The competition will again be held at the Watch City Brewing Company in Waltham, MA, just west of Boston. This competition will again be the Northeast Regional Qualifying Event for the 6th year of the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB) Competition! (http://hbd.org/mcab/) The BHC9 page on our club website (http://www.wort.org/BHC/bhc.html) lists the qualifying styles for MCAB5. This competition will also be the 1st of four events in the 2003 New England Homebrewer of the Year (http://mail.symuli.com/NEHBOTY) circuit. All BJCP Styles will be judged, including Cider and Mead. The Entry Deadline has been set as Friday February 21, 2003 and the entry fee is $5.00 per entry. We will also need judge and steward support, so please come and help us out if you can! Email our Judge Coordinator, Francois Espourteille at francois53`at`attbi.com if you would like to judge or steward. On March 8th, the entries will be judged in morning and afternoon sessions with a complimentary lunch served to judges and stewards. A public Best Of Show judging and Awards Presentation will follow the afternoon session. Watch City Brewing Company's Head Brewer, Aaron Mateychuk, will also select a Brewmaster's Choice Award from among the BOS finalists. The lucky entrant who wins the Brewmaster's Choice will get to assist Aaron in brewing a brewpub sized batch of their beer at Watch City!!! All of the information one needs to enter the competition or to judge or steward in the competition can be found at: http://www.wort.org/BHC/bhc.html including entry forms, bottle labels, judge registration forms, drop-off and ship-to info, etc. We encourage everyone who is interested in this competition to obtain information through the website as it will be continually updated there. Feel free to send me email at dohertybrewing`at`yahoo.com with questions you might have. Spread the word and we look forward to judging your entries!! Cheers and Happy Brewing! John B. Doherty Head Organizer for the 2003 Boston Homebrew Competition (BHC9) dohertybrewing`at`yahoo.com 978-670-6987 (w) 508-923-6376 (h) Surf to http://www.wort.org/BHC/bhc.html for all competition details!! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Malcolm L. Monroe Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:02:29 -0500 Subject: Meadllennium VI Competition Meadllennium VI is just around the corner. This will be the first mead-only competition of 2003 and is one of the Premier Mead-only Competitions in the United States. This event is sponsored by the Central Florida Home Brewers (the same club that puts on the Sunshine Challenge in May each year, the largest homebrew competitions East of the Mississippi.) and is becoming one of the largest mead-only competitions in the country. Entry procedures have been streamlined to make entering the competition as easy as possible. You can now enter Meadllennium VI online. From the online entry form you can print the required forms, and electronically submit them to the tabulation team. Now you can pay your entry fees online and get a $1 per-entry discount! You can even use your credit card. At a minimum, awards will be made for suitable 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category. Additionally, an award will be given for Best of Show and to the Club with the most points (the host club, the CFHB, is excluded from this award.) Beautiful etched glasses will be awarded again this year. This competition is registered and sanctioned through the BJCP. Judging will be Saturday, January 25, 2003, and all entries are due no later than Tuesday, January 21, 2003. Entry fee is $6.00 and will consist of 3 bottles, 6 oz. or greater. You can pay your entry fees online and get a $1 per-entry discount! Ship your entries to: Meadllennium VI c/o Rockey Markham 2247 King John Court Winter Park, FL 32792 The following styles will be judged and follow the BJCP Style Guidelines, Category 25, Mead, Subcategories A-H. See: http://www.bjcp.org/styleguide25.html A. Traditional Mead B. Varietal Honey Traditional Mead C. Cyser (Apple Melomel) D. Pyment (Grape Melomel) E. Other Fruit Melomel F. Metheglin (spices and/or herbs) G. Braggot H. Mixed / Experimental Category Mead (combines ingredients from two or more of the other mead sub-categories) More information and the downloadable forms can be found at the Central Florida Home Brewers site. Go to: http://www.cfhb.org/mead6.html or E-Mail the Meadllennium competition team at: mead`at`cfhb.org. BJCP participants and/or other competent mead judges should contact the Meadllennium competition team at: mead`at`cfhb.org or Ron Bach at bachian`at`juno.com or Steve Della Salla at stevied4him at earthlink.net if you are interested in participating in the judging on Saturday 25 January. Posted by Mac Monroe BJCP National Judge #A0030 monroem`at`istef.ksc.nasa.gov ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John C. Tull Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:10:28 -0800 Subject: Washoe Zephyr Zymurgists' Homebrew Competition 2003 I am pleased to announce the WZZ Homebrew Competition 2003 in beautiful Reno, Nevada. We need judges, stewards, and entrants. You can view the details online, including registering as a judge or steward, as well as registering your entries at this web address: http://jctull.biology.unr.edu/wzz/wzz-comp2003.html Please register early so that I can have a solid head count of volunteers. You can address any questions to me. The event will be held on Sunday 2 March 2003. There will also be a BJCP exam administered by Dave Sapsis on Saturday 1 March 2003. So plan on taking the test, then judging the next day if you are so inclined. Please let me know in advance if you plan to take the exam. We will need a head count for that as well. Cheers, John C. Tull WZZ ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Casselman Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:55:18 -0800 Subject: Style Calculator Hi. I did a little excel spreadsheet that will calculate a recipe for each style given three different grains (one pale and two specialty) and three different hops. You plug in your kettle utillaztion mash efficenty numbers so you should be able to make it work with your own system. The input parameters are in different colors. Sometimes you can not make a beer styles with the given ingredients so I black out the line. There are percentage parameters that take you between the high and low for the styles. It figures out OG, Color and IBUs. It is at http://geocities.com/beercandyman/ Steve PS The page comes up with a couple weird runtime errors (I used the Yahoo = pagebuilder!) but don't let that stop you. I guess you also need excel = on your system. ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** Subject: Digest for the period 1/16/2003 - 1/17/2003 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:01:18 -0500 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 9th Annual Boston Homebrew Competition - March 8, 2003 (John B. Doherty) 2. Meadllennium VI Competition (Malcolm L. Monroe) 3. Washoe Zephyr Zymurgists' Homebrew Competition 2003 (John C. Tull) 4. Style Calculator (Steve Casselman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John B. Doherty Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:26:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: 9th Annual Boston Homebrew Competition - March 8, 2003 Dear Fellow Beer Judges, The Boston Wort Processors are pleased to formally announce the Ninth Annual BOSTON HOMEBREW COMPETITION (BHC9) to be held on March 8th, 2003! This competition is run by the Boston Wort Processors Homebrew Club and is a BJCP Registered Event. The competition will again be held at the Watch City Brewing Company in Waltham, MA, just west of Boston. This competition will again be the Northeast Regional Qualifying Event for the 6th year of the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB) Competition! (http://hbd.org/mcab/) The BHC9 page on our club website (http://www.wort.org/BHC/bhc.html) lists the qualifying styles for MCAB5. This competition will also be the 1st of four events in the 2003 New England Homebrewer of the Year (http://mail.symuli.com/NEHBOTY) circuit. All BJCP Styles will be judged, including Cider and Mead. The Entry Deadline has been set as Friday February 21, 2003 and the entry fee is $5.00 per entry. We will also need judge and steward support, so please come and help us out if you can! Email our Judge Coordinator, Francois Espourteille at francois53`at`attbi.com if you would like to judge or steward. On March 8th, the entries will be judged in morning and afternoon sessions with a complimentary lunch served to judges and stewards. A public Best Of Show judging and Awards Presentation will follow the afternoon session. Watch City Brewing Company's Head Brewer, Aaron Mateychuk, will also select a Brewmaster's Choice Award from among the BOS finalists. The lucky entrant who wins the Brewmaster's Choice will get to assist Aaron in brewing a brewpub sized batch of their beer at Watch City!!! All of the information one needs to enter the competition or to judge or steward in the competition can be found at: http://www.wort.org/BHC/bhc.html including entry forms, bottle labels, judge registration forms, drop-off and ship-to info, etc. We encourage everyone who is interested in this competition to obtain information through the website as it will be continually updated there. Feel free to send me email at dohertybrewing`at`yahoo.com with questions you might have. Spread the word and we look forward to judging your entries!! Cheers and Happy Brewing! John B. Doherty Head Organizer for the 2003 Boston Homebrew Competition (BHC9) dohertybrewing`at`yahoo.com 978-670-6987 (w) 508-923-6376 (h) Surf to http://www.wort.org/BHC/bhc.html for all competition details!! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Malcolm L. Monroe Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:02:29 -0500 Subject: Meadllennium VI Competition Meadllennium VI is just around the corner. This will be the first mead-only competition of 2003 and is one of the Premier Mead-only Competitions in the United States. This event is sponsored by the Central Florida Home Brewers (the same club that puts on the Sunshine Challenge in May each year, the largest homebrew competitions East of the Mississippi.) and is becoming one of the largest mead-only competitions in the country. Entry procedures have been streamlined to make entering the competition as easy as possible. You can now enter Meadllennium VI online. From the online entry form you can print the required forms, and electronically submit them to the tabulation team. Now you can pay your entry fees online and get a $1 per-entry discount! You can even use your credit card. At a minimum, awards will be made for suitable 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category. Additionally, an award will be given for Best of Show and to the Club with the most points (the host club, the CFHB, is excluded from this award.) Beautiful etched glasses will be awarded again this year. This competition is registered and sanctioned through the BJCP. Judging will be Saturday, January 25, 2003, and all entries are due no later than Tuesday, January 21, 2003. Entry fee is $6.00 and will consist of 3 bottles, 6 oz. or greater. You can pay your entry fees online and get a $1 per-entry discount! Ship your entries to: Meadllennium VI c/o Rockey Markham 2247 King John Court Winter Park, FL 32792 The following styles will be judged and follow the BJCP Style Guidelines, Category 25, Mead, Subcategories A-H. See: http://www.bjcp.org/styleguide25.html A. Traditional Mead B. Varietal Honey Traditional Mead C. Cyser (Apple Melomel) D. Pyment (Grape Melomel) E. Other Fruit Melomel F. Metheglin (spices and/or herbs) G. Braggot H. Mixed / Experimental Category Mead (combines ingredients from two or more of the other mead sub-categories) More information and the downloadable forms can be found at the Central Florida Home Brewers site. Go to: http://www.cfhb.org/mead6.html or E-Mail the Meadllennium competition team at: mead`at`cfhb.org. BJCP participants and/or other competent mead judges should contact the Meadllennium competition team at: mead`at`cfhb.org or Ron Bach at bachian`at`juno.com or Steve Della Salla at stevied4him at earthlink.net if you are interested in participating in the judging on Saturday 25 January. Posted by Mac Monroe BJCP National Judge #A0030 monroem`at`istef.ksc.nasa.gov ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John C. Tull Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:10:28 -0800 Subject: Washoe Zephyr Zymurgists' Homebrew Competition 2003 I am pleased to announce the WZZ Homebrew Competition 2003 in beautiful Reno, Nevada. We need judges, stewards, and entrants. You can view the details online, including registering as a judge or steward, as well as registering your entries at this web address: http://jctull.biology.unr.edu/wzz/wzz-comp2003.html Please register early so that I can have a solid head count of volunteers. You can address any questions to me. The event will be held on Sunday 2 March 2003. There will also be a BJCP exam administered by Dave Sapsis on Saturday 1 March 2003. So plan on taking the test, then judging the next day if you are so inclined. Please let me know in advance if you plan to take the exam. We will need a head count for that as well. Cheers, John C. Tull WZZ ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Casselman Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:55:18 -0800 Subject: Style Calculator Hi. I did a little excel spreadsheet that will calculate a recipe for each style given three different grains (one pale and two specialty) and three different hops. You plug in your kettle utillaztion mash efficenty numbers so you should be able to make it work with your own system. The input parameters are in different colors. Sometimes you can not make a beer styles with the given ingredients so I black out the line. There are percentage parameters that take you between the high and low for the styles. It figures out OG, Color and IBUs. It is at http://geocities.com/beercandyman/ Steve PS The page comes up with a couple weird runtime errors (I used the Yahoo = pagebuilder!) but don't let that stop you. I guess you also need excel = on your system. ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * **********************************************************************