March 31st - Brewnoser Rye IPA tasting

[mr x]

For our purposes, I think 3 500ml bottles (or equivalent) would suffice...?

[Bryan]

For our purposes, I think 3 500ml bottles (or equivalent) would suffice...?

That can be arranged. Anyone know when the official tasting for the competition will be?

[mr x]

They probably don't have a schedule for Daniel's initial elimination. The final judging is on the day of the reception IIRC.

[Tim Gregory]

So is this going to be a "here's my beer what do you think?" kind of thing, or a blind tasting where we rate them and pick the one we think is best?

[mr x]

I thought we'd do a bit of rating on them. If Jeff was around, maybe we'd do some BJCP stuff at the same time for those guys who were interested in that course. I was hoping Nash would be available as well.

[LiverDance]

They probably don't have a schedule for Daniel's initial elimination. The final judging is on the day of the reception IIRC.

The calls for the final 4 usually go out the monday before hand (march 19)

[mr x]

So, would we like to do this as an afternoon event? We could start anytime, and possibly turn it into a BBQ, or go out as a group for a bite of food...

[Graham.C]

I'm good with either one, but it might be better to BBQ then relocate.

I think Jeff said he will be in Montreal that weekend. Still those of us who are interested in BJCP could get together and taste/discuss the beers in a blind tasting type environment. Everyone else could just taste them as they see fit or join into the discussion/tasting with the BJCP wanna-be's.

[mr x]

If Jeff is away, we should definitely try to make sure we can get Nash.

[sleepyjamie]

i probably wont submit my Rye IPA to garrison. unfortunately i didnt have time to bottle it until last thursday. i did taste it tho and it is quite good. really spicey earthiness

[akr71]

i probably wont submit my Rye IPA to garrison. unfortunately i didnt have time to bottle it until last thursday. i did taste it tho and it is quite good. really spicey earthiness

Get it in anyway! It would still have 2-3 weeks conditioning. Today is the deadline.

[mr x]

I agree! I would have said so earlier, but i thought it was closed Friday.

Enter now, or suffer the consequences of not having entered.

[mr x]

Was discussing this with Nash yesterday (Jeff is away on the 31st). We were thinking a bit of food would go nice with this. Maybe some freshly ground burgers of some sort on the grill, etc

[Graham.C]

I'm up for chipping in to get food or bringing something, but it has to be easy to transport across the province.

[sleepyjamie]

ill chip in food or money

[Jayme]

I'm getting to this late (although still long before the actual date...), but I'm interested in being part of the tasting. We bottled the rest of the keg into growlers.

[mr x]

Very good. Save some for the 31st.

[hogie]

Any more talk of having this the 24th?

[mr x]

It looks like the 24th is dead. It was my preferred choice due to the grain buy timing, but...

All i can do is direct you to find the pics of our fresh ground flame broiled burgers for encouragement...

[akr71]

If you want to reschedule because of the NCM order, I don't mind. I was hoping to hand off my entry to someone at the Garrison event the 22nd in case I can't make it into the city.

[mr x]

Let's try to get some number together here on how many people we shall have.

FYI, this is the burger menu, or a close facsimile:

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[chalmers]

I'm in!

[jeffsmith]

Going to have to pass as I'll be down the weekend previous for the grain pickup.

[Tim Gregory]

So have we decided on a start time? Are we going right from the grain pick up, or later in the day?

[mr x]

Well, i will be there right after the pick up. But if people want to head to the rb or h&t for a couple before coming up to my place, that's fine.