April News
Spring is finally here! Well, at least it made a brief appearance on Saturday, but that means it’s close! With the warmer weather on its way, that means our meetings will move outside till next winter. But first we have…
BURP Monthly Competition Winners – February 2019
In the spirit of FebBREWary's joint JamBEERee meeting, our February IPA competition included entries from three of the four homebrew clubs that participated in the event: BURP, DC Homebrewers and GRiST. All told, ten beers were entered in the competition…
BURP Monthly Competition Winners – January 2019
BURP Sour Beers Competition Results In the debut competition as your new Co-Ministers of Culture, we registered nine entries for our Sour Beers competition in conjunction with Brewers and Drinkers Around Silver Spring (BADASS) [https://www.badass-beer.com/]. We found more than half…
Join Your Fellow BURPers for the Annual Potluck Holiday Banquet Thursday, December 13!
Join Your Fellow BURPers for the annual Potluck Holiday Banquet Thursday, December 13. This fabulous feast will be held at the Westlake Towers condo in Bethesda, MD. The full address and directions can be found at this link (member login…
Dave’s Post for December 2018
“Oh, Oh, Oh!” (call me dyslexic Santa)-- a warm and hearty season’s greetings to all my fellow BURPers. I have some good news and some bad news for you, depending on who you are. For those of you who think…
BURP’s 22nd Real Ale Festival – Information for All Attending
The following is important information that BURP members and their guests will need to know before leaving for the BURP Real Ale Festival on the Sat, Nov 10: Meeting Time & Duration: The meeting will start at 12:00 instead of…
BURP’s Real Ale Competition and Festival
The BURP Real Ale Competition and Festival is held each year in November, a time of year that features moderate temperatures during the day and cool nights, conditions which aid in the conditioning and drinking pleasure of this unique style…
MASHOUT Early Bird Registration Ending Soon!
The BURP Club would like to strongly encourage all of you who enjoy camping as well as the fellowship of other homebrewers throughout the Mid-Atlantic area to register for this year's 31st Annual Mid-Atlantic States Homebrewers CampOut (MASHOUT), the largest…
Dave’s Post for July 2017
It’s feeling like Christmas in summer! My gift to you? A fairly brief and early July post, so you can focus on other things… like drinking awesome homebrew or like watching the Nats bullpen blow another late-game lead, which consequently…
BURP Monthly Competition Winners – June 2017 – European Sours
Popenoe Mountain is a pretty relaxing place, as any BURPer who has been there is well aware. The relaxed attitude carried over to the June competition, which was judged at some point mid-afternoon Saturday after various judges and entrants had…