Subject: Digest for the period 3/1/2006 - 3/2/2006 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:01:02 -0500 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. AHA Membership Rally `at` Saint Arnold (Kathryn Porter) 2. Best The Brewer Competition Invitation (David Houseman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kathryn Porter Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:01:23 -0700 Subject: AHA Membership Rally `at` Saint Arnold Yee Hah, Brewers! Saint Arnold Brewing Co. in Houston, TX is hosting their second annual AHA Membership Rally this Sunday, March 5th. Since they hosted the first ever AHA Membership Rally, and set the mold, we can guarantee a fun time. They'll be grilling out, the brewery will be open for a self-guided tour, Brock Wagner will be on-site and more!!! Those of you that attended last year have the perfect opportunity to return Sunday, March 5th to renew at the special AHA Rally rate of $33! What a deal! Bringing your spouse? You can join or renew with a Family Membership and get an AHA membership card for up to three other members of your household. Now the whole family can enjoy discount at participants of the Pub Discount Program! (must be 21) Also, entrance is FREE for Designated Drivers. So, round up your brewing buddies, beer loving honeys, and get over to Saint Arnold Brewing Co Sunday afternoon. WHEN: Sunday - March 5, 2006 TIME: 1- 4 pm WHERE: Saint Arnold Brewing Company, 2522 Fairway Park Drive, Houston, Texas ENTRY: AHA Members - FREE Non-Member & AHA Members who RENEW: $33 Please RSVP: kathryn`at`brewersassociation.org More information: http://www.beertown.org/email/aha/membership_drive/st_arnold06.html Have fun!!! Kathryn _______________ Kathryn Porter Membership Coordinator American Homebrewers Association kathryn`at`brewersassociation.org www.beertown.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Houseman Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:37:31 -0500 Subject: Best The Brewer Competition Invitation This is an invitation to Enter and to Judge the Best the Brewers Competition Saturday March 18th, 2006 Manayunk Restaurant and Brewery The 2nd annual Best the Brewer amateur/professional homebrew competition is looking for entrants and judges. It is a BJCP sanctioned competition. This year submit beers brewed after November 2005 in these general categories: The BJCP 2004 Style Guidelines will be used. Pale ale Stout Porter IPA Wheat Brown Ale Spiced/vegetable/specialty Professional brewers that have agreed to homebrew as of 1/1/2006 come from Yards, Manayunk Brewery, Flying Fish, and Iron Hill. Prizes will be awarded for the winner of each of the 7 categories. Best of Show Beers (up to 3) that are from homebrewers, not professionals, will be brewed with the homebrewer at Manayunk Brewery and served at the restaurant. Two 12 ounce bottles should be submitted by Thursday March 16th using the appropriate AHA submission form (http://www.beertown.org/homebrewing/scp/pdf/entry_recipe_form.pdf ) accompanied by a $5 entry fee payable to Tim Ackerson. Drop-off points for the competition are Home Sweet Homebrew, Keystone Homebrew and the Manayunk Restaurant and Brewery. Entrants can also be sent to Tim Ackerson, 101 W. Nippon St., Philadelphia, PA 19119. There will also be a beer dinner along with the awards at the Manayunk Restaurant and Brewery on Thursday March 23rd. Full details about the dinner will be posted on http://www.manayunkbrewery.com/ . For questions e-mail Tim Ackerson at theimann`at`verizon.net or Chris Firey at chris`at`manayunkbrewery.com . Hope to see everyone at the competition and dinner. Judges: Judging will take place at 10:00am on Saturday, March 18th at Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. Judges will be provided with lunch and will be admitted to the awards dinner on Thursday evening. Contact David Houseman before March 16th to reserve your place to judge in this unique competition competing professional brewers' homebrewer against that of the amateur homebrewers. Dave Houseman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Important Subscriber Information ***** To post a message to JudgeNet, send it to judge`at`synchro.com. Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments. Make sure you use a meaningful subject. Quote only as much material as is needed for context. To manage your subscription, go to http://synchro.com/judge/subscriptions.html or send an email to judge-request`at`synchro.com with the subject: help judge. JudgeNet is also available as an NNTP newsgroup, go to news://news.synchro.com/synchro.judge