As your Commissar Brewski, Donald Sajda is always refining his selection of beers for each Beer of the Month (BOM) menu.  He has recently updated the lists for the April and June BOMs.  The current slate of beers are:

• April – stouts:  Divine Reserve 5, Stone Oatmeal, Stone 13th Anniversary, Red Hook Double Black, Young’s Double Chocolate, Ten Fiddy, Brooklyn Brewery Chocolate Stout, Stone Imperial 2009, Wrasslers,  Stone Anniversary Stout 11, Bear valley Black Flag, Eel River Ravens Eye, Left Hand Depth Charge, Left Hand Milk Stout, Arcadia Coco Loco, Big Sky Slow Elk Oatmeal, Goose Island Bourbon Barrel 2008, Jolly Pumpkin Dark Dawn, Rodon 198, Otter Creek Imperial Stout, Southern Star Buried Hatchet, Mephistopheres 2009 – Avery
• June – wood-aged beers:  Odell Woodcut #2 Golden Ale, Boulevard , Pike Stout 2008, Goose Island Bourbon Barrel Stout 2008, Burton Baton IPA, Dog Fish Palo Santo, Arrogant Bastard Oak Aged , Jolly Pumpkin Dark Dawn, Jolly Pumpkin Golden, Jolly Pumpkin Amber, Jolly Pumpkin Autumn Fire, Avery Samuel 2005, Deschutes Mirror Mirror, Deschutes Black Butte, Odell Bourbon Barrel Stout, Avery Sui Generis, Brooklyn Brewery Black Ops, Boulder Beer Co Oboviod, Brew Dog Paradox, Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti, Quercus Vitis Humulus – Otter Creek, Bourbon Barrel Quad – Boulevard Brewing Co.

Please see the Events page for meeting dates, times, locations and all other details.

I’ve applied a software update to the web site to keep it current.  Everything looks fine to me, but, as always, if you notice any peculiar behavior (coming from the web site, genius, I don’t need to know about your copious oddness), please let me know.

 Did you know that there’s a KGB group on facebook?  You’ve joined us here.  Join us there, too.

They say March comes in like a lion.  Well, watch out because he's going to be hungry since we ate the lamb at the February meeting.  Damn! that little guy was tasty.

At the March meeting, we’ll have barley wines to douse smoldering coals of the chili competition at Jeff Scheerhorn's house.  There’ll be trophies for three places in three categories of chili (that’s nine trophies, for you mathematically disinclined folks).

Information for all this and more is in this month's KGB Files.

Oh, I almost forgot.  Look for instructions on how you can save an extra 6% on every single solitary thing at KegCowboy.com.  Don’t go there unless you want to find great prices on beer dispensing equipment; kegerator kits, kegs, CO2 regulators, taps, etc.

Several things went haywire at once to cause the web site’s recent problems.  One of them was that the search engine had run amok and added over seven million records to one of its tables.  I ended up freeing up a huge amount of space by clearing the search tables, but the downside of this action is that the search function won’t work for you until the background process gets around to indexing the web site again.  This will likely take several days.

There is an alternative, though, and it’s really a better solution in the first place, if you ask me.  The answer is to use Google.  Now, Google hasn’t found every link on here, either, so some of the old newsletters haven’t been indexed yet, but I think the rest of the site has.  Oh, and the newest Forum posts aren’t indexed immediately, either.¹

“So how do you use Google to search the KGB web site?” you wonder out loud.  Just add site:thekgb.org anywhere in your Google search and it will limit its results to the KGB web site.  Awesome, ain’t it?  As an example, here’s a quick search of the site for the word t-shirt.

In fact, if you just do a Google search for site:thekgb.org, you’ll see every page that Google has indexed on this site (174 links as of right this second).

As always, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact your Minister of Propaganda.  He aims to please.

¹ Duh!

UPDATE: I may have found enough room in the database to hold off the demons for a while.  Time will tell.

Some users have experienced problems logging in. The reason is, the web site’s database is nearly at its size limit. If you see an error message while trying to add something (e.g., a forum message or enrolling in one of the events on the calendar) or doing anything that would store an event in the log (e.g., logging in, changing your user preferences, etc.), this is probably the reason.

I will start looking for a permanent solution to this problem. The obvious one is to upgrade the hosting account, but the next step up would put quite a dent in the treasury.

In the mean time, please do not log off. If you do, email the MOP and I'll see if purging the log will allow you to log in (this would be a temporary solution at best, but it worked for me and the RC). When you do log on, be sure to check the Remember Login box so you aren't automatically logged out when you leave.