As announced at the February meeting and in the previous issue of The Worthouse News, the second annual BURRP! - Brewing Under Really Ridiculous Parameters! - an in-house competition to see who can brew the best beer under challenging conditions, is bubbling to the sweet end. The alcohol and CO2 levels have increased greatly over the homes of several EHG members. Global warming be damned, they are out to make some beer!

Best-dressed bottles

As announced in the February issue, there is a new category of Best-dressed Bottles. For this competition, an award to be judged by your peers for the best-dressed bottle and maybe carton that epitomizes the BURRP! competition.

What constitutes a "best-dressed bottle"? It can be something as basic as a unique beer label such as the labels seen in Brew Your Own magazine's Label Contest, to the extreme of the finest BURRP! cold cereal glued to the bottle complete with a spoon!

And for a little more fun, how about bringing a best-dressed beer carton! Buy a six-pack of Alley Kat Buffalo Beer from Neal, drink the beer and decorate the white cardboard carton. For those who did not get a chance to brew, this may be your opportunity to help the BURRP! brewers by contributing your artistic or crafty talents.

A quick "google" on the Internet will bring up several sites for artwork besides the cereal boxes you had when you brewed your BURRP! Beer. If you tossed out your boxes, the Web is the place to find inspiration.

It will be interesting to see what the KGB reveals from their secret brewery. And rumour has it that some Cuckoo smuggled cereal from south of the border with boxes that will blow the corny Puffs away.