Mike’s Live for January 2019
Happy Brew Year BURPers! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and got to celebrate the new year with some homebrew in hand. This is my first update as Fearless Leader, and I’m excited to kick the year off.…
March 17, 2018 Enlightenment Session – Experiment with Hops
At the March 17 meeting, we will have an opportunity to smell and taste single hop infused beers to help associate what we perceive in our senses with how hops are described. We will also combine two beers to examine…
Dave’s Post for March
It’s time for another monthly post, and I think I may be moving from the denial stage to the bargaining stage of grief being Fearless Leader, which is major progress according to my therapist (especially after skipping the anger stage…
Beersmith – Getting the Most from Beer, presentation slides
In case you missed the presentation from this month's meeting by Dr. Brad Smith of Beersmith software and blog fame, you can download the slides.
December Membeersip round up
Hoppy almost New Year. 2016 was a great year for BURP. We currently have about 200 paid primary membeers (this does not include co-members) I would like to see us increase membeersip by at least 10% in 2017. As membeers,…
Emily’s Post for December
I have really enjoyed the last 2 years. I want to thank everyone for giving me the privilege of serving as Fearless Leader of BURP. I thought I would summarize some of the events the BURP club has done over…
Emily’s Post for November
October 29th was a beautiful day. Jim Busch, Liz Pitts, Christian Parker, Christian Layke, Alison Skeel, Matt Pyle, Robert Stevens, Dan Rozman, Dave White, Greg Leifer, Pam Leifer, David Derricotte , Sean McLlvain, Bill Ridgely, Wendy Aaronson, Thomas Sords, James…
From the Ministry of Enlightenment – November 2016
By Wendy Aaronson & Mike Reinitz, Co-Ministers of Enlightenment At the October meeting, attendees had a chance to determine the level at which they could smell and taste diacetyl. We used Michelob Ultra as the control beer and McCormick Imitation…
From the Ministry of Enlightenment – October 2016
By Wendy Aaronson & Mike Reinitz, Co-Ministers of Enlightenment A big shout out and many thanks to Steve Marler for holding a competition to test our knowledge of Oktoberfest beer. Three German and three U.S. examples were provided to the…
BURP Monthly Competition Winners- July 2016- Best Session Brew
Have you ever been to an outdoor gathering where it was so hot (even with a cold brew in hand) that you said “If I find a pool, I swear I’m going in with or without clothes!”? Well, there was…