Posts by our officers
For our annual Dan McCaubrey Memorial Stout Competition, eight stouts made their way to the judges (Jamie Langley, Woody Lee, Wendy Schmidt & Dave White): three Irish Stouts, one Sweet Stout, an Imperial, one Tropical and one Barrel-Aged. At the…
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…
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.…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
Join the officer's corps, they said. All you have to do is write checks, they said. It's easy, they said. They didn't mention that I might need to actually use my rudimentary level English skills to communicate with the membership!…
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…
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.