The KGB fared fairly well in today’s Big Batch Brew Bash.  Aside from winning the Heavy Hitters Award (which means we’ll have a half-barrel keg of St. Arnold beer at one of our future meetings), three out of the top five brews belonged to KGBers.

The Ken Rich Memorial Award was awarded to John Cotton of the Golden Triangle Homebrewers for having the highest scoring brew submitted by a contestant entering his first homebrew competition.

We had a great turnout.  Congratulations to all the winners!

Also, remember that the styles for the next two BBBBs have been announced.  BBBB 16 will be Old Ales and BBBB 17 will be Oktoberfest.

Update:  The BBBB Current News & Previous Winners pages have been updated with the latest information.

Chronicle beer blogger Ronnie Crocker gave the KGB & the Big Batch Brew Bash a good mention today.  Check it out!

Your intrepid Big Batch Brew Bash crew checked in 61 entries, yesterday afternoon, and we know there are eight to ten more that were delivered to the Commissar Brewski's house from out of towners.  Seventy English barleywines means we'll need plenty of judges come next Sunday morning, so please plan to show up early and help us knock them out.

Judging will start at 9am at St. Arnold's new brewery (some call it the newery) located at 2000 Lyons Avenue, Houston 77020.  You can find a map to the new place on the Events Page.  For more information about the Big Batch, itself, find your way to the Big Batch page.

 Hope to see you there next Sunday, comrades. 

RAFFLE!

EDIT:  Now that we've added those delivered to CB Don's house, the total number of entries stands at 70.  Ain't that a fine, round number?

Oh yeah.  The May KGB Files is out there waiting on you to download, print, and line your bird's cage.  Hop to!

The 15th annual Big Batch Brew Bash is almost upon us, folks — it's going down on May 16th —and we will need your help to judge a boatload of English barleywines.  Judging will begin promptly at 9am, so please get yourself down to the St. Arnold brewery on time and ready to sit down and get to it.

If you still need to turn in your entries, just get them to one of our various drop-off points by quitting time this Friday, May 7.  If you can't get that done, you have one more chance in that you can deliver them to St. Arnold on May 8th between noon and 2pm.  Find the KGB contingent who will be accepting, logging and sorting the entries.  The BBBB entry form has all that info on it, as well as instructions for how to label your bottles. 

Speaking of instructions, please follow them to the letter.  Don't use tape or glue to label your bottles.  Rubber bands are the affixing agent of choice and the MOP will be a stickler about that this year since the perennially lenient CB Donald won't be around to object.  MWUHahahahaha....

Note well the lack of a winking emoticon.

RAFFLE!