FYI
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:45:48 -0500
Subject: Judges need for Cider Competition
From: jmerriman(a)northernbrewer.com
To: gera_latour(a)hotmail.com
Hi Gera,
Jeff from Northern Brewer here. I'm organizing the Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery's 1st Cider Competition as part of their renowned Cider Week. We recently closed the registrations and have 85 ciders to judge! I can't say I expected our turn out to be quite that big and so I'm scrambling a little for enough judges.
We're going to have two sessions for judging this week. One on Wednesday night, 7pm at Northern Brewer's Minneapolis store and the other on Friday night at Town Hall Brewery (7 Corners).
I'm wondering if you could help me out by sending out a note to your fellow judges asking if they'd be able to help us out.
We're going to be judging at least 18 of the entries on Wednesday night and the remain 67 in Friday. The way I see it, we could use another 2 judges for Wednesday (I have 4 but with 2 more we can judge a few more than 18) and then a total of 10-14 for Friday night to make sure everything goes smoothly. I've been in contact with both Chris Smith and Dave Royer. They are helping out on Wednesday and have also been great at helping to get lines out to other judges.
If you'd be willing to judge, we'd love to have you. If you'd be able to send out an email and have interested judges get back to me, that'd be great!
My info:
jmerriman(a)northernbrewer.com773-818.724
Let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks!
--
Jeff Merriman, General Manager
Minneapolis Retail Store
6012 Lyndale Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN 55419612-843-4444
Hey JABBERS! We still need someone to host the June 13 JAB meeting! The usual suspects for hosting (Me, Mike B. and Mike L.) are all out of town and can't do it. I would really hate to have the first JAB meeting since 2006 to be canceled. All we need is a garage, patio, shady basement, and/or a permissive spouse! Please respond to this or on the facebook site if you can help out. With 70+ members we should be able to figure this out!!!
Thanks
Eric Wentling
FYI
Here’s the actual text. I believe the underlined text is new.
7.16 Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 340A.301, subdivision 9, is amended to read:
7.17 Subd. 9. Unlicensed manufacture. (a) Nothing in this chapter requires a license for
7.18the natural fermentation of fruit juices or brewing of beer in the home for family use.
7.19(b) Naturally fermented fruit juices or beer made under this subdivision may be
7.20removed from the premises where made for use at organized affairs, exhibitions, or
7.21competitions, including, but not limited to, homemaker's contests, tastings, or judging.
7.22(c) For purposes of this subdivision, "tastings" means an event where the general
7.23public may sample unlicensed naturally fermented fruit juices or beer.
//Mike Behrendt
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Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:48 PM
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Dear Mr. Anderson,
Thanks for contacting me earlier this session about S.F. 2604, a bill allowing home-brew beer to be provided, though not sold, at out-of-home events. This legislation was included in the omnibus liquor bill (S.F. 2336), which was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Dayton.
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St Paul MN 55155
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From: aburakiewicz(a)indianastatefair.com
Subject: Judge the Indiana Brewer's Cup
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 13:23:16 +0000
To:
Judge Beer, Get Paid!
Call for Judges and Stewards!
www.brewerscup.org 2014
Registration is now open for the 2014 Indiana Brewers’ Cup Competition.
Is this just another call for another brewing competition? Of course! But this is the Indiana Brewers Cup. The competition where everyone who is anyone will
come, judge, and get paid! Plenty of bathrooms, great food, just a great experience! Ok, that is the carrot, the pitch, and the lure. On to business.
The Indiana State Fair Brewers Cup is one of the largest Craft Beer competitions in the country. The Brewers Cup began judging quality homebrew and professional
entries in 1999. The competition continues to have annual growth. In 2013 over 1200 homebrewed and professional beers were judged over three sessions. BJCP judges, professional brewers, and BJCP Provisional Judges are welcomed and encouraged to judge at this
year’s competition. Judging will take place on Friday, July 11th, and Saturday, July 12th, at the Marsh Blue Ribbon Pavilion
on the Indiana State Fairgrounds. This is a BJCP-sanctioned competition, so points will be awarded. We also pay a small stipend to offset travel expenses to professional brewers and BJCP judges. Judges who travel at least 50 miles one way and judge at least
two sessions will receive a $100 stipend. Local judges will be paid $12.50 per session. We provide meals during the judging and you are welcome to stay for the Awards Reception on Saturday evening. For Homebrewers The Indiana State Fair Brewers’ Cup will
again participate in the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB) as a Qualifying Event. Consult http://masterhomebrewer.org/
for more information.
A website,
www.brewerscup.org/ is available for judge/steward registration, entry submission, and
details surrounding this years event.
If you like to judge beer, judge beer along side some of the top judges and stewards in the country, get paid for judging, see old friends, meet new friends,
then don't delay, proceed today to www.brewerscup.org/. Click on “Sign up to Judge”
and register to join your fellow judges in making this years Indiana Brewers Cup a great success!
Feel free to forward this email to other qualified BJCP judges that may be new to the program and/or you think may be interested in the Indiana Brewers Cup.
If you have questions about judging, please contact Judge Coordinator, Mike Freeman via email
ibcjudge(a)gmail.com.
Regards,
Brewers’ Cup Executive Committee
Anita Johnson Indianapolis, Indiana
Tom Stilabower Indianapolis, Indiana
Ashleigh Burakiewicz Indianapolis, Indiana
Judge Coordinator
Mike Freeman Indianapolis, Indiana
Chief Steward
Nathan Compton Indianapolis, Indiana
Ashleigh E. Burakiewicz
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Nice article in today's paper.
//Mike Behrendt
From: mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto:mnbrewers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of John Longballa
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 9:41 AM
To: mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: [mnbrewers] Strib article
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/dining/257549651.html
Hello fellow "Jabbers",
For those of you who are looking for something dirtier than the AHA/MHBA
rally to do on Saturday:
we are having (hopefully) the final demolition/cleanup volunteer event to
prep the 1854 brewery ruins (formerly Strunk, Strunk-Nyssen, and later
Shakopee Brewery) so we can get a structural engineer and architect(s) to
advise on the next moves.
Our goal is to have at least part of the building ready for home,
community, and nano-brewing by fall 2014.
It'll be really nice to save this very historic building from collapse and
bring it back into brewing after a very long hiatus. It became a brewery
and later a distillery because of the artesian spring and the nearby
spring-fed lakes for ice block harvesting.
We could really use some help, especially now before weeds and bugs
proliferate within the ruins.
The invite is attached...
Hope some of you can make it!
Cheers!
Trenk
PS: Bring workgloves
We're doing what we hope is the final demo/cleanup volunteer event at the now named "Limestone Springs" Brewery, (formerly Strunk, Strunk-Nyssen, and Shakopee Brewery) on Saturday, (see attached invite).
After the last couple of spaces are cleaned out, we can finally have it looked at by a structural engineer and architect to advise how to proceed. We want to get at least some of the space ready for home, community and nano brewing by this fall.
I am so not technically savvy about how to share the invite with the brewclub and other groups. If you would pass along the invite we would be very grateful! We really need help, especially from the brewing community.
It will be awesome to save the building and get it back into brewing before it collapses!
BIG thanks! and Cheers!!
Trenk :)
Anyone want the wort, going to the rally, but didn't make the cutoff?
You can have mine if you'll be there. It's a Black Double IPA.
Let me know and bring a carboy or keg on Saturday.
//Mike Behrendt
