Greeting fellow fish,

I just wanted to throw out a reminder that we have our monthly group brew coming up next Saturday, April 4th. The brew will be held at Bill Heigh's house (Tallguy) and will start around 10:30AM. Bill has a very cool all grain brew system, so you owe it to yourself to head over and check it out. We'll be brewing McMenamin's original Hammerhead ale recipe as provided to us by Michel Brown up in Portland. There may even be some COHO beer on tap. Hope to see everyone on Saturday.

Cheers!

BT

Link to a map to Tallguy's house - http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Bend&state=OR&address=54761+Huntington...

The Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization, 10 Barrel Brewing Company and The Brew Shop are proud to welcome you to Central Oregon's only officially sanctioned AHA / BJCP homebrew competition. Here are the rules:

* Entries will consist of two 12-16oz bottles. All bottle caps must be blank or otherwise blacked out. Raised letter bottles from breweries such as Deschutes, Widmer, and New Belgium will be allowed. Swing-top "Grolsch style" bottles will not be accepted.

* Entry fees are $6 per entry with a limit of three entries per BJCP subcatagory. Please make checks payable to Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization.

* The deadline for entries is Friday, April 10th.

* There are four entry drop off locations: in Bend at The Brew Shop, in Eugene at Valley Vitner, in Corvallis at Corvallis Brewing Supply, and in Portland at FH Steinbarts.

* Hand carried entries from out-of-town judges will be accepted up to the start of the event.

* Entries will be judged according to 2008 BJCP style guidlelines.

* The Best of Show beer will be brewed commercially at 10 Barrel Brewing Company.

* Awards will be given for Best of Show, Best of Show Runner Up, Best of Show Second Runner Up, Highest Scoring Entry, Highest Scoring First Time Entry, as well as First Place for individual categories.

* Awards are dependent upon the overall number of entries and the number of categories entered. Some categories may be collapsed.

The event will be held at the Nativity Lutheran Church at 60850 Brosterhous Road (on the corner of Brosterhous Road and Knott Road). Judge registration will begin at 9:30 AM and will be followed by the first round of judging at 10:30AM. Awards and prizes will be issued directly after the Best of Show judging in the afternoon.

Judges can pre-register here: "Judge Sign Up":judge_signup

A reception featuring beer from some great local craft breweries will begin as awards are given out at 4:30PM. The reception is open to COHO members and guests, all judges, and competition entrants.

"BJCP 2008 Style Guidelines":http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/catdex.php or "download the PDF":http://www.cohomebrewers.org/files/2008_Guidelines.pdf

"BJCP Entry Form":http://www.cohomebrewers.org/files/BJCP_EntryRecipe.pdf

"BJCP Bottle Identification":http://www.cohomebrewers.org/files/BJCP_BottleID.pdf

"Spring Fling Flyer":http://www.cohomebrewers.org/files/spring_fling_2009_flyer.pdf