[MKOB] Meeting is Thursday 15th

[JCoop704 at bellsouth.net]

To my Knowledge, there is NOT a Belgian competition this meeting. 
If you would read the email, it was a question about a competition this month, which was scheduled to be a Barley Wine, or similar style. I was requesting for a count on who had brewed for this style and would be bringing it. As I got only one reply, either no one is reading the emails or you don't have one.

Ron, just replied he had a belgian and someone decided that was a style we where judging. Ron bring your Belgian I'm sure it will be a fine beer.

So at this time I have decided to cancel the competition. It will be up to the next President to have more, we just have to much going on to try another this year. Sorry if you brewed for this, please bring it and we will sample it. Give our opinion and have a good time.

If someone has a better way to conduct a competition that will not take more that two hours, lets here it. As the first one we did took well over two hours, and we used the score sheets and comments in the way it is layed out. We had members leave in the middle which threw the scores off on that one too, apparently they felt it took to long. I discussed it with several other members and came up with the format we used, if you don't like it I'm sorry we do the best we can in the time we have. It seems to have worked everyone who wanted to participated. Sorry, if you don't like the way we judged, but the main purpose of it was to get people involved in brewing, instead of just coming to a meeting and drinking. Discuss styles of beer instead of just bringing in as much as you could and passing it out as fast as possible. Sorry, if I hurt some feelings but MKOB is a HOME BREWING club not a drinking club, we could use some more training on how to be a judge. Anyone want to step up and t
each more of us how to judge?

Don't forget, we have elections this month, I sent out the list of nominations a couple weeks ago. I will also have a list, hopefully, for everyone to look at Thursday night. We can take new nominations before voting begins. Everyone try to bring a pen or pencil as we might not have enough to go around.
We will also be trying to get the Christmas party together, so think about what you can bring.

Jim Cooper
President for Now of MKOB




-------------- Original message from John Edwards <thechicagoloop at yahoo.com>: -------------- 


> Not to detract from the overly serious debate about 
> beer judging, BUT.. 
> where is the meeting, Abita or Slidell? The website 
> says Slidell in Aug of 07. I have to let my campaign 
> managers know. 
> John 
> 
> 
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