[THC] 2009 BOSS Chicago Cup Challenge -- Judging March 28

[Dr. L.A. Swihart]

Enter beers,ciders, perries, meads --- AND/OR attend as a judge or steward!
 
Mike Pelter is competition organizer for the 18th annual Chicago Cup 
Challenge hosted by Brewers of South Suburbia -- BOSS .  Rick and I went 
up there last year, just for the day.  VERY nice competition, well run 
and cute venue, great food provided for lunch.  The town of Blue Island 
IL is pretty do-able as a day trip, even for beer judging.   Mike's also 
a professor of Chemistry at PU-Calumet.  His wife Libbie is a chemist 
who's recently been commuting to Purdue weekly for a collaboration on a 
CHE project with Jim Caruthors. 

IMPORTANT COOL NOTE:
Libbie has offered to transport entries from here to there.  That kind 
of thing makes entering way so much easier.  I'm planning to enter a few 
things.

If anyone else is interested, let's get our stuff together and I'll get 
it to her.  My house is practically on her way back to Schererville or 
wherever it is they live, somewhere near there.

Entries are due between March 9 and March 21 -- I will be figuring to 
send things with Libbie closer to the 21st . 
 
Online registration at http://home.comcast.net/~bossbeercomp/

There seems to be no online registration for judges.  Their info 
document at  
http://www.bossbeer.org/CompetitionInfo/BOSS%20Comp%20Info%202009.pdf 
indicates that judges and stewards should contact the competition staff 
at BOSSBeerComp at gmail.com

I'm sure they would love to have some judges come up, including people 
interested in being a judge for the first time.  (No study or testing 
necessary -- you get put together with one or two more experienced 
judges.  It works, trust me.) 
 
Judges and stewards are allowed to bring their entries with them as long 
as they've been registered.

Let me know.