Subject: Digest for the period 4/14/2005 - 4/15/2005 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:00:57 -0400 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CALL FOR JUDGES - AHA National Homebrew Comp, Midwest 1st round (Al Boyce) 2. Re: Aurora Brewing Challenge (Bill Pierce) 3. Boneyard Brew-Off, Champaign Illinois, June 4 2005 (Joel Plutchak) 4. RE: Aurora Brewing Challenge (Brian Lundeen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Al Boyce Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:30:01 -0500 Subject: CALL FOR JUDGES - AHA National Homebrew Comp, Midwest 1st round CALL FOR JUDGES - AHA National Homebrew Comp, Midwest 1st round The Midwest Region judging for the National Homebrew Competition 1st round will be in St. Paul this year, for the first time, and we need judges! The competition is scheduled for April 29th and 30th at St. Bernard's Church on 147 Geranium Avenue in St. Paul. There will be a 2 judging sessions on Friday, starting at 3pm, and 3 sessions on Saturday. Dinner on Friday, and Breakfast and Lunch on Saturday will be provided. We will have an awards banquet Saturday night for a modest cost. If you can help us out, please fill out the online judge registration at: http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/nhc/ . (Note: if you are interested in volunteering, rather than judging or stewarding, you can select EITHER, and indicate you'd rather do other work than Judging or Stewarding in one of the comment fields. More information on the schedule and location are posted on the registration page. If you know anyone else that would be interested in judging, please pass this along. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Al Boyce Publicity Committee ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Manage your subscription online: http://synchro.com/judge * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Pierce Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:15:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Aurora Brewing Challenge In the April 14 issue of the JugdeNet Digest, Roxanne Hastings advises US brewers to use the US Postal Service for shipping entries to the Aurora Brewing Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta. She and others should be aware that the US Postal Service long has forbidden the shipment of alcoholic beverages, including beer. Unfortunately, beginning March 1, United Parcel Service regulations also specifically prohibit the shipment of alcohol by individuals. FedEx regulations are somewhat more vague about the subject, but many FedEx branches will not accept packages with the contents declared as beer. A couple of years ago the AHA hoped to find an approved shipping method for sending beers to competitions. Unfortunately they concluded that the situation was so confusing and fraught with conflicting regulations that there was little they could do about it. Rather than advocate outright deception and possible violations of the law, they said nothing. Individuals are left to devise their own solutions and workarounds. These include declaring packages as "yeast samples for evaluation" and other terms, dropping off the packages at third-party shipment locations such as Mail Boxes Etc., shipping from work addresses, and using acronyms (such as NHC for National Homebrew Competition) and avoiding specific mention of the names of breweries if they are the recipients. The overwhelming concerns about domestic security in the wake of September 11, 2001, and a slowly growing climate of neo-prohibitionism about alcohol have worked together to make it difficult for homebrewers in this regard. A little creativity and a lot of discretion are often required today. -- Bill Pierce Cellar Door Homebrewery Burlington, Ontario ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Manage your subscription online: http://synchro.com/judge * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joel Plutchak Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:51:21 +0000 Subject: Boneyard Brew-Off, Champaign Illinois, June 4 2005 Brewers and meadmakers, start your kettles! Judges, mark your calendars! The 11th Annual Boneyard Brew-Off will be held on June 4, organized by the Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots, Champaign, Illinois. In addition to the styles set forth by the 2004 BJCP guidelines, we are also continuing our tradition of a No One Gets Out Alive High-Gravity category, with a hedonic judging of any beer, mead, or cider with a starting gravity over 1.070. Details are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/BUZZ/brewoff.html Entry forms will be available for download, and are being snail-mailed out to regional clubs and judges, in the next week or so. Online judge and entry registration will be enabled around May 1. Entries will be accepted May 23 through June 1. To receive a hard copy of the materials or for more information, contact one of the following people: Competition Organizer: Linda Owens Judge Director: Britt Weiser ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Manage your subscription online: http://synchro.com/judge * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Lundeen Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:56:57 -0500 Subject: RE: Aurora Brewing Challenge > From: roxanne hastings Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:04:40 -0600 > Subject: Aurora Brewing Challenge > > > Announcing the Aurora Brewing Challenge 2005 Competition. > Judging for this years competition runs from June 1-4, 2005. > > Americans - please use your good old US postal service and NOT UPS. > UPS charges us to broker your beers across the border and > their service in Canada is truely second rate. > Umm, has this actually worked in the past? My understanding is that it is ILLEGAL to use the USPS for alcohol delivery, and I know of a pretty well known amateur winemaker, Jack Keller, who got into some serious trouble when he tried to mail some homemade wine prizes to a certain BJCP judge that lives in the Ottawa area. I also experienced the thrill of border scrutiny when a wine kit manufacturer in Australia tried to mail me a sample of his finished product. Canada Post send me a lovely letter informing me that alcohol delivery through the mail was not permitted and the wine was being disposed of (or so they say, I expect the little border fascists just get drunk on the stuff). If it's working for you, how are you getting away with this on a consistent basis? Brian ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Manage your subscription online: http://synchro.com/judge * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * **********************************************************************