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The Kansas City Bier Meisters are currently accepting entries for the 28th Annual Kansas City Bier Meisters Homebrew Competition. The competition is BJCP/AHA sanctioned and is a qualifier for the High Plains Club and Brewer of the Year awards.

Entries must be received by Saturday February 5, and judging will be held on February 18 and 19 at Holy Field Winery in Basehor, KS. This year's focus is on local, sustainable ingredients and brewing practices - reusing resources like barrels, and making beer with local ingredients such as wheat!

The entry fee is $7 per entry and online entry and payment are available at the competition website below.

If you wish to volunteer as a judge or steward you can do so through the online entry system and your help is appreciated.

Our banquet speaker is Stephen Hale, Chief Brewer at the Schlafly Taproom
Our morning speaker is Paul Kavulak, owner of (and brewer at) Nebraska Brewing Company

We are also sponsor a tour of Boulevard the afternoon of the 19th with transportation provided to and from Holy Field.

Awards will be given in the 28 BJCP beer, cider and mead categories. Additionally a special BOS award will be given to the best beer that uses wheat as a substantial ingredient. Please see the competition website for a full listing of awards.

The competition website has complete details:

http://www.kcbmcomp.com

If you have any questions please contact myself at jcfowler@gmail.com or Amy Satterlund at oregonamy@gmail.com.

Enter early, enter often and tell you friends.

Cheers,

John Fowler

You guys will enjoy hearing from Paul. He's a good guy and owns a great brewpub! I may have to enter this one.

Travisty wrote:You guys will enjoy hearing from Paul. He's a good guy and owns a great brewpub! I may have to enter this one.

I'm looking forward to Paul's talk. My wife and I stopped by NBC after judging the River City Roundup a few months back. Paul noticed that my wife tweeted about the beer and came out and talked to us for about half an hour. Absolutely a great guy and great beer.

I hope you enter. We are one of the oldest competitions and I think a lot of people would say one of the best in the Midwest. We are working hard this year to make sure we continue to earn that reputation.

I'd love for us to be able to say "The Brewing Network" a few times on Saturday night.

I will try to be there. At any rate, I have a couple of beers ready that should do well there. The last time I entered this one, John Palmer judged my barleywine. It only took a bronze, so John must have lousy taste.

Anyone going will love hearing from Paul. His place is my "local" pub and he is a friend of mine. He does some great beers.

Wayne

Woot! Took a first place with co-brewer Tom Malowski for our Munich Helles. Also took a third place with my foreign export Stout. Congrats to Tom for a third with an English bitter.

Congrats guys! We got our first BOS!

bigwave wrote:Congrats guys! We got our first BOS!

Hell yeah! Thats awesome! Congrats

Congrats to both of you. I heard the cream ale was excellent.