I don't think we should change time or location.  I won't be going out for St. Patty's.  If you need to miss the meeting to celebrate we will all understand.

Miss a meeting to go drink green swill with a bunch of delirious drinking newbies vs. drinking with professionals; where is the question?
By the way, I collected 20-30 unopened bottles of beer from the Americas Finest City competition that will be at the meeting for tasting, chilled, for the curious of what gets sent in for judging.

Hey Bill, you still want to do your speach on competing?

I'll ignore the speech part and try for a quick and painless presentation. I was going to bring a beer for a group walk through of a judging. I think it would open a lot of eyes and build some confidence on everybody’s ability to describe beer. When judging, the talking about the beer is done after the personal descriptions of the beer are written down. It would also be interesting to see the point spread. With the amount of other things to cover, I'm not sure if there will be enough time.