Charlottesville Area Masters of Real Ale

The CASK Beer Blitz BJCP homebrew competition is coming up fast. It will be on September 25th at the St George Brewery in Hampton, Va.  Please set that day aside as they will need judges and stewards for the competition, and it is a fun time to talk shop and increase your tasting knowledge.

Also, please get your entries together ASAP. Much like the Dominion Cup, the CASK Beer Blitz has been moved up much earlier than last year. (It was in December last year.) So, although the judging is on the 25th, your entries need to be in Richmond by September 18th.   A member of the Williamsburg club (CASK) will be at our meeting tomorrow night (9/7/10), so if you have entries ready to go, please log in on their site http://www.colonialalesmiths.org/BeerBlitz/, print out your labels and pay for your entries. Their rep will be able to take your beers back with him to save you the cost and uncertainty of shipping your beers.

I’d love to see a great turn out from CAMRA for this gig. Both in bodies at the competition and beer entries.  While the Dominion Cup awards a Plato award of the best all around brewer, the Beer Blitz has a Blitzkrieg Award which goes to the homebrew club with the most points. I’m much, much more interested in a club award than an individual one. I’d love to see us in the running for this. We were in a three-way tie for it last year, but lost on BOS entries.

Please pull any beers you have ready together, and let’s have a great showing for this last full category competition (that I give a crap about) of the year.