Subject: Digest for the period 1/24/2005 - 1/25/2005
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:03:40 -0500

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  1. BJCP Belgian Wit Ingredients (Tom Schmidlin) 

  2. Spirit of Belgium Homebrew Competition results (Anderson 
     Robert W (Andy) NSSC) 



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From: Tom Schmidlin  Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:37:16 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Subject: BJCP Belgian Wit Ingredients 


Sorry if I missed a discussion on this earlier, but I've noticed that the 2004 guidelines list the ingredients for Belgian Wit as  "About 50% unmalted wheat (traditionally soft white winter wheat)".  This is in direct contrast to the 1999 specs which state "About 50% unmalted hard red winter wheat".

This strikes me as a pretty big change.  Presumably the 2004 version is correct, so I'm curious if this was a well known (to others) mistake in the 1999 version or if it was only discovered when the guidelines were being revised?  I don't brew (and tend not to judge) wheat beers, so I've got little to no experience with this style (outside of the occasional Hoegaarden).  Thanks in advance.

Tom
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From: Anderson Robert W (Andy) NSSC  Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:47:16 -0500
Subject: Spirit of Belgium Homebrew Competition results 


Greetings,
      On 15 January, the Brewers United for Real Potables (BURP) held the
homebrew competition for Spirit of Belgium 2005 (SOB). While the homebrew
competition was just that Saturday morning, the entire SOB lasted for 3
days. We had a total of 150 homebrew entries, which makes this our largest
SOB Belgian Beer Homebrew contest yet.

Congratulations to Jay Adams of Mill Spring, NC who won Best of Show AND 2nd
place BOS. His Straight Lambic won BOS, while his Flemish Red Ale garnered
2nd place BOS. Steve Piatz of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association
prevented Jay from sweeping all the prizes by winning 3rd place BOS with his
tripel.

Anyway, all the results can be found at:
http://www.burp.org/events/sob/2005/competitionwinners.htm

Cheers,

Andy Anderson
SOB 2005 Homebrew Contest Organizer
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