May 2013 Bosmopolitan
Here is the May issue of the Bosmopolitan!
Its May and it smells like club competition time, so come out on SATURDAY May 18th @ 9am for Bloat Open and see who reigns supreme!
May Club Meeting — Bloat Open!
June Club Meeting — Brown Ales
May Board Meeting Minutes
Beer and Deer
Club Survey Results
BBL Membership Cards
Flanders Red Solera
Have you recently toured a brewery, been to a new favorite beer bar, or have some other beer related news you’d like to share with the club? Let us know and we’ll include it in the newsletter.
Bloatarian Open 2013: Club-Only Homebrew Competition – May 18th
Registration is CLOSED with 235 Entries!
VIEW THE RESULTS HERE
The Bloatarian Open is a BJCP/AHA sanctioned Club-Only Competition. You must be a paid-in-full BBL member to enter your beer into the competition. Members in good standing can enter an unlimited number of entries in the competition with no further entry fees.
Not yet a member? Go to http://bloatarian.com/about/membership to join.
This year’s competition will take place on Saturday, May 18th at the Norwood Community Center from 9am to 5pm with awards ceremony about 5:30pm. Judges and Stewards please arrive before 9am to check in and be ready to judge. We will have donuts in the morning, grilled lunch fare and snacks during the awards.
WIN A $20 LISTERMANN’S GIFT CARD!
To qualify for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Listermann Brewing Company, you must do both of the following BEFORE WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 AT 5PM:
• Pay your 2013 Bloatarian Brewing League dues
• Drop your entries at Listermann Brewing Company
You may also HAND CARRY your entries to the competition on Saturday morning (especially if you have kegs). If so please arrive by 8:30 to allow timely check in!!
National Homebrew Day – May 4th
May 4, 2013 — all day 607 shepherd drive Lockland OH 45215
Come out and brew! Join BBL along with CMI and other local clubs as we celebrate National Homebrew Day at Rivertown Brewing Co. Bring your gear and brew, hangout, share homebrew and enjoy $1 off pints of Rivertown beers. Brewing water and electric is provided along with free yeast pitches!
Gorilla Grill will be there with free grilled eats for homebrewers (bring anything else you’d like and they will grill for you!) up until 3pm. After 3pm Catch-A-Fire Pizza Truck will be there selling their delish pies.
Birthday Brewout at Dick Mahiques
April 27, 2013 — all day! at 7573 N Pisgah Dr West Chester, OH 45069
We will brew rain or shine! If anyone has a pop up shelter please bring along (Hoping for better weather this year!) Also if you have camping chairs bring them along. We have plenty of electric and water hookups. Wheel barrows will be provide to dump grains/hops into. We will have roast beef sandwiches on kummelwick rolls. They are a Buffalo thing. I will grill sometime during the day depending on the turnout.
I plan on starting early so come early if you dare! Parking will be mostly on the road. Please DON’T park in the grass of my neighbors. Please DO bring homebrew to share and a dish to pass.
If any new brewers are wanting to see all grain brewing this is a wonderful opportunity to learn along with checking out the systems and gadgets of others ( just don’t watch Zeller! )
Hope to see everyone on April 27th!
Cheers,
Dick and Debbie
April 2013 Bosmopolitan
Here is the April issue of the Bosmopolitan!
The days are getting longer, lawn mowers are out, and baseball is heating up, so this can only mean one thing, Spring is here and Summer is on the way. Come see us on Friday April 19th @ 7pm for Jason Roeper’s discussion of Sour Beers!
April Club Meeting — Sour Beers!
Dues are due!
April Board Meeting Minutes
National Homebrew Day
Club Survey Results
BBL Membership Cards
Flanders Red Solera
Have you recently toured a brewery, been to a new favorite beer bar, or have some other beer related news you’d like to share with the club? Let us know and we’ll include it in the newsletter.
April Club Meeting — Sour Beers
April 19, 2013 — 7-11pm at Norwood Community Center
Award-winning local brewmaster and lifetime Bloatarian Jason Roeper of Rivertown Brewing Co will join us to discuss this interesting and controversial style.
Pucker up, it’s time to put on your sour puss! April’s meeting features Sour Beers. Lambics, Flanders’, Berliners, maybe even Kentucky Common! But you say you’re hesitant to turn your wort over to the wild bugs? We’ll do our best to convince you to take the plunge! Our speaker this month is Lifetime Member Jason Roeper. Jason has been a Bloatarian for nearly 20 years, and together with fellow Bloat Randy Schlitz went professional four years ago, founding the Rivertown Brewery. Rivertown’s portfolio currently includes a number of sour offerings, including Old Sour Cherry Porter, Ojos Negros, Lambic, and Ville de Rivere Geuze. Jason’s history with sour beers goes back quite a ways, including reaching the finals of the Sam Adams Longshot competition (actually he won, but Boston Beer couldn’t make his beer to include it in their commercial operation). He’ll talk to us about simple ways to make a truly wild beer, and how to learn the patience to let the bugs do their job. We’ll have samples of a number of commercial sour beers (including Rivertown), and certainly a few members will bring some of their efforts along for the ride.
(disclaimer… this is NOT Jason!)
March 2013 Bosmopolitan
Here is the March issue of the Bosmopolitan!
The snow is melting and warm weather is on the way, help the BBL say good-bye to winter on Friday March 22nd @ 7pm for March Beer Madness.
March Club Meeting — March Beer Madness!
Dues are due!
March Board Meeting Minutes
Listermann StarkBier Fest
BBL Membership Cards
Flanders Red Solera
Have you recently toured a brewery, been to a new favorite beer bar, or have some other beer related news you’d like to share with the club? Let us know and we’ll include it in the newsletter.
