Comrades, there’s been a slight change of  plans.  Due to circumstances beyond our control, the June meeting will now be held at Don Sajda’s house.  You’ve all been there before, so there’s no need to point you to it, but I’ll do it anyway by cleverly pointing you to the event and telling you to click on his name to see a map.

Or something like that.

Today was a good day to be a Foam Ranger.  All five ribbons went to FR members, and among 107 entries, that ain’t bad.

The Ken Rich Memorial Award went to first-time entrant Britton Quinn of the Tin Shed homebrew club.

And by the skin of its collectivist teeth, the KGB kept its tenacious grip on the Heavy Hitters award.

Congratulations to all!

Score sheets that weren’t picked up after the awards ceremony will be mailed out in the next couple of days.

The style for next year’s 17th Annual Big Batch Brew Bash is Black IPA.  As there are no “official” style guidelines for type of beer, we are coming up with the Big Batch guidelines for Black IPA in the near future.  We will let everybody know when we’ve finalized everything, so keep an eye on this site.

I’ve had a few requests from folks to know the entry numbers, so I added them to the table, above.

Sorry about being so late with this one, comrades.  I have no good excuse, either.  The newsletter was done last Thursday, but I guess all I was thinking about was the Big Batch.  Anyway, here’s this month’s KGB Files.

Yesterday, Czar Herb, Ed Condon, Bill King and I logged in 102 Old Ale entries for next Sunday’s BBBB.  MOW Don tells me there were a few more entries mailed to his house.  That is a whole lot of Old Ale that needs judging.

Show up in droves, comrades.  Judging begins at 9am and, by golly, we need judges!