[THC] Feb meeting, porter competition

[Linda Swihart]

Edgar Chatham wrote:
> Fellow Members:
>
>         The American Homebrewer's Association Club only Competition for porter ( the Perfect Porter Challenge ) will take place March 29th.  In these competitions one entry is evaluated per homebrew club.  Points for Homebrew Club of the year are awarded for placing in these competitions, as well as for individual placements in the National Homebrew Competition.  
>         Not only is porter a popular style among club members, but this competition is being hosted by the Indianapolis homebrew club, the FBI.  This makes transport of our entry very easy. 
>          Accordingly, we would like to encourage all club members who have porters on hand, or who would like to brew one soon, to consider submitting your porter to be judged by a panel of our certified beer judges to be chosen as our club entry.  The deadline for entries is March 21st.  We will have our intra-club competition either at our February meeting ( which has not been set yet ), or at a separate event in late February or early March.  
>         So with six weeks or so ahead of us, lets fire up our pots and produce some excellent porters from which to choose a club beer to represent us at this competition.  More details as to the date of our judging will follow in the near future.  Thanks,
>
>   

My secret sources have told me that John Blichmann is choosing a Feb 
date for a meeting at his place.  For those of you who failed to show up 
for the July 2007 get-together he hosted (which was most of you, but 
summer meetings are sometimes like that and we had a blast just the few 
of us anyway!) you will be happy you made time to stop by and see some 
of the inspiring things that there are to see.  Like the 22 cu ft 
freezerator with the 2"x6" collar and the hoist&track for lifting 
half-barrels and lowering them into..... I can't wait to see what he's 
done lately. 

For those of you who think of Blichmann Engineering as simply a name you 
see in Zymurgy, don't miss this meeting and the opportunity to meet the 
guy and share some homebrew club camaraderie at his home in Lafayette.  
He's been a homebrewer and member of the club for many years.   There 
are several good reasons he is not able to attend very many meetings 
these days, and their names all escape me right now.  They're all girls 
and they're about 13 and 11 and 9 if I'm not too far off.  Cornering 
John at his house is about the only way we get to see him much anymore!  
(But you'll be at Cincinnati this summer, right, John?)

I'm thinking maybe I'll just brew a porter one of these days soon too.  
John's place would be a great venue for having a little competition to 
find the club winner to submit in March.

Linda