BURP NEWS
The Official Newsletter of
BREWERS UNITED FOR REAL POTABLES
October 1998
Inside:
Bottle Opener Update
Meeting Directions
And MORE!
The Burp News • 1612 10th Street South • Arlington, VA • 22204-4768 • newsletter@burp.org
By Tom Cannon, Fearless Leader
BURP will be holding it s second Real
Ale Competition in conjunction with the
November meeting at Bill and Wendy s
house. The competition will be held on Fri-
day evening, November 20 and the remain-
ing beer will be available for consumption
at the meeting on Saturday, November 21.
In addition, we will be holding a Real Ale
Class at the November meeting beginning
at 12:00, one hour before the start of the
meeting.
The rules are pretty simple. All en-
tries must be kegged. At least one gallon of
beer must be entered. All entries will be
served from beer engines. You do not have
to supply a beer engine with your entry. We
should have plenty. The beers can be deliv-
ered to Bill and Wendy s house starting
Sunday, 15 November but must be there by
Thursday, 19 November (if you have a real
good story, we may take beer on Friday,
but it will not have as much time to settle
and clear). We will strive to follow any con-
ditioning instructions left by the entrants,
but in the event you leave it to us to condi-
tion, we will do what we feel is best for the
beer.
For styles, we will accept Mild, Or-
dinary Bitter, Special Bitter, Extra Special
Bitter, Scottish 60/-, 70/- 80/-, Strong Ale,
Strong Mild, Old Ale, Porter, and Stout.
Awards will be given for the top 3 beers.
We will do our best to have the beers judged
by the most knowledgeable Real Ale judges
in BURP and in the local Beer community.
Since we hope to have in excess of
20 entries, the November meeting will be
our second “No Beer” meeting this year.
This means you don t have to bring any beer
to the meeting, we ll drink all the left over
real ale!
I would appreciate it if anyone who
is considering entering this years competi-
tion to please contact me so I have an idea
as to how big our bar must be and how