Greetings Members,

Our October meeting is this coming Monday, 7pm at Boatyard Brewery. This month's topic will be on the Chemistry of IBU's and presented by Andre Venter, Professor of Chemistry at WMU. Also, don't forget to wear your Halloween costumes to this meeting, we will have prizes for best costume. (Bonus points for beer themed costumes)

In other KLOB news:

KLOB KUP: Our annual club beer competition, The KLOB KUP, is a few months away but it's never to early to start planning! We will start taking entries at the November meeting and accept them until Dec. 1st. Judging will be held beginning of December and the winner will be announced at the December meeting. This beer competition is open to KLOB members in good standing only. Each member is allowed up to three entries, and the beers can be any style in the 2015 BJCP Style Guidelines. It is a BJCP sanctioned event, and is judged by a panel of BJCP beer judges. Beers will be judges according to the 2015 BJCP Style Guidelines. Brew your best stuff for this event, the competition is tough! To Enter, you must fill out an Entry/Recipe form and use a rubber band to attach the bottle ID forms to two 12oz bottles. Do not tape or glue the labels to your bottles, you will be disqualified. Also, no other labels or identifying marks on the bottles, just plain crown cap and the bottle ID form. We do the judging blind, so we don’t know who’s beer is who’s. You can find the forms here: http://bjcp.org/docs/SCP_EntryRecipe.pdf, and http://bjcp.org/docs/SCP_BottleID.pdf. We will accept entries beginning at the November meeting, and at Tempo Vino Winery until December 1st. Winner get bragging rights for the year and their name on the KLOB KUP trophy!