Enough long winded guff. You want prizes and I want poetry. The rules? We got rules, sure - plenty of them:

• You may submit any poem on the subject of beer as long as you wrote it. No format or minimum length.
• I will judge them - extra points for the best use of the letters "j" and "q".
• The winners get prizes.

As noted in the announcement, we are giving out tickets to TAP NY 2008 and all the free beer, great food and a weekend beer people for a weekend, 26 and 27 April 2008 at the Hunter Mountain Resort in the Catskills in upper downstate New York. Seeing as that great prize is somewhat geographically focused to the mid-Atlantic states, I have also dug into the barrel of prizes to find two new never worn XL t-shirts, one for Jolly Pumpkin of Dexter, Michigan and another for Wellington Brewery of Guelph, Ontario. These will be given to the best poems from elsewhere...the un-mid-Atlantic amongst you. Because we need poetry. Your poetry. By 10:00 pm, Monday March 31st, 2008.