mba March 2003

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Assoc. of Brewers brings Slow Food & Deschutes Brewery onto Board of Directors

by Association of Brewers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Association of Brewers brings Slow Food and Deschutes Brewery onto Board of Directors Boulder, Colo. March 18, 2003- The Association of Brewers Board of Directors recently filled two At-Large positions, growing the Board to 16 members. The Association of Brewers welcomes John Bryant, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon and Patrick Martins, President of Slow Food U.S.A., headquartered in New York City, NY. Bryant and Martins bring to the Board a new direction members were asking for - brewing industry marketing expertise and reinforcing the connection beer has with quality food and dining experiences. Deschutes is one of America's fastest growing regional breweries. Bryant says he expects to share information with others in the beverage industry by providing insight from personal experiences in brewery sales & marketing, as well as distributorship management. In addition to an increase emphasis on marketing and craft beer image development, the Association of Brewers has, for 25 years, continued to emphasize the traditional and pleasurable relationship beer has had with food. The Association of Brewers' relationship with Slow Food began with a visit by Slow Food international directors in 1996 to Boulder, Colorado with Association of Brewers founding President, Charlie Papazian. The relationship began to thrive when Slow Food founder, Carlo Petrini, spoke at the Association of Brewers 2000 World Beer Cup Awards Banquet in New York City. Slow Food is an international association founded in Italy in 1986 that seeks a rediscovery of authentic culinary traditions and the conservation of the world's quality food and beverage heritage. Today the organization is active in 45 countries and has a worldwide membership of over 65,000. They organize the world famous Salon del Gusto, which attracts more than 130,000 people to taste the best artisan foods and beverages from around the globe. The Association of Brewers has twice organized groups of craft brewers to exhibit at the 2000 and 2002 shows. As part of the growth of the culinary movement, Slow Food U.S.A. was established in 2000 and is dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America. Slow Food U.S.A. has grown to a membership of nearly 10,000 passionate individuals in a few short years under the guidance of its President, Patrick Martins. Martins says he wanted to be on the Association of Brewers Board to show his support of one of the most important food organizations in the country. "No product better demonstrates biodiversity growing from the ground up than the renaissance of beer culture in the U.S.," comments Martins. "The Association of Brewers is the organization that best embraces this biodiversity and unites it behind a common mission." The Board of Directors for the Association of Brewers meets four-times a year and provides strategic direction for the association. The next meeting will be held June 9 in Boulder, Colo. For a complete list of the Board of Directors for the Association of Brewers visit www.beertown.org. # # # CONTACT: Cindy Jones Sales and Marketing Director Phone: +1.303.447.0816, ext. 144 Fax: +1.303.447.2825 E-mail: cindy(a)aob.org Web Site: www.beertown.org

22 years, 8 months

RE: BJCP Class #12: Brown, Scottish and Stro... and also the Br own Ale Club Competition

by Crist, Jonathan

This Thursday is the BJCP class covering Brown, Scottish and Strong Scotch ales. We also will be judging our Brown Ales to determine which entry will go to Fargo for the AHA Club Only Brown Ale Competition. The class will be held at Midwest from 6-10pm. I was able to find several commercial examples of 80 Shilling, Strong Scotch, Northern English Brown and American Brown ale. Some are classics, some are not. I have one example of Mild (Three Floyd's), plus one homebrewed 60 shilling. I couldn't find any commercial examples of 60 or 70 shilling Scottish or Southern English Brown Ale, and could use more examples of Mild ale. > If you have any homebrewed examples of any of the styles PLEASE bring them > along. If you commercial examples of the missing styles, please bring > them along. > See you Thursday night Jonathan

22 years, 8 months

Sanitizing a Counterflow Chiller and some other questions ...

by Will Holway

Hi, I am finishing up construction of a 50 Foot Couterflow chiller. Now I have a few questions about putting it into use: 1. Would PBW and Star San be the preferred methods for cleaning and sanitizing the counter flow chiller after use and before use? Any point in allowing boiling wort to sit in there for 10 minutes prioir to commencing chilling? 2. Would it be necessary to use a pump to pull the hot wort through the chiller in a timely manner? It seems like it would take awhile for the wort to wind its way through the 50 feet of tubing. 3. If using a pump, I assume that the flow would have to be throttled back in order for the wort to come out at the correct temp. Any other tips or recommendations are always apprecieted. Cheers WH __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

22 years, 8 months

IBU Open Results - Congratulations!

by Crist, Jonathan

Congratulations to Steve Fletty on winning Best of Show with his Classic American Pilsner Other local winning brewers were: 1st Place Curt & Cathy Stock - Ordinary Bitter 2nd Place` Bob Cromer - American Pale Ale 3rd Place Curt & Cathy Stock - Northern English Brown 3rd Place Rick Oftel - Strong Scottish 1st Place Curt & Cathy Stock - American Style Barleywine 2nd Place Steve Fletty - Robust Porter 2nd Place Jeff Cotton - Oatmeal Stout 2nd Place Curt & Cathy Stock - Fruit Lambic 2nd Place Al Boyce - New England Style Cider Also congratulations to Susan Ruud for her winning entries 1st Place Dopplebock 1st Place English style Barleywine 2nd Place Belgian Pale Ale 3rd Place Standard Cider

22 years, 8 months

rauch malt

by Steve Fletty

I need rauch malt for a smoked proter, which you can't get locally. Would anyone like to split the cost of a 55 lb bag? I need a minimum of 4 lbs, maybe 10 at most. Cost looks to be about $70 with shipping or $1.25 a lb. Let me know if you're interested.

22 years, 8 months

Next West Side Meeting

by Will Holway

Hi, We are having a West Side meeting on Wed 3/26 at WindRiver Brewing at 7 pm. Cheers WH PS a map can be found at http://www.windriverbrew.com/image/map.gif __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com

22 years, 8 months

March Madness car pooling

by Michael K Swalinkavich

Does anyone want to car pool to St. Cloud for judging at their competition this Sat. I'm signed up for the 9am shift and would be interested in staying for the 1pm shift, if everyone in the carpool was. I live in Woodbury, but I'd be willing to meet anywhere on that's on the way. Cheers!, Mike "Swally" Swalinkavich

22 years, 8 months

Great Waters News

by Sean O'Byrne

Hello everyone, It is almost spring and that mean 2 very important dates are coming up--Saint Patricks Day on Monday, March 17th and the Annual I Love Beer Pub Crawl April 26th. Both days should be lots of fun and filled with great beer!!! Tickets for the pub crawl are on sale now for $50. That gets you a glass, t-shirt, free samples, one beer at each of the 7 pubs, and bus transportation between the pubs. This event is always a sellout, and tickets are going fast. We do take phone orders with a credit card. We will also be serving breakfast at 10 AM that Saturday, so make sure you start and stop here at Great Waters. For those of you that like to celebrate St Pats, the parade is on Monday the 17th at noon, and we will be opening up at 10:00. We will have plenty of O'Byrnes Irish Red Ale up and going as well as a great Stout. We will be serving a special food menu that day, so make sure you stop by. On the 20- 22nd is the WCHA Hockey tournament. No matter what your alma mater is, we'll be serving up lots of beer. April is going to be crazy as well with the Wild in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and 6 concerts scheduled for the month. We now have 5 ramps located within one block of us and most are only $5 on event nites. Give us a call and we can direct you to the best location, and we will tell you how to bypass all the congestion on the Kellogg Blvd exit. Remember, we have happy hour 3:30-6:30 M-F and late nite from 9-12 Sunday-Fri. We maintain our happy hour even on event nites, unlike most bars near the arena. We also have live music on Wed. So much to do.....good thing we have such good beer!! Cheers! Sean and Scott

22 years, 9 months

Beer Release 3/13

by townhallbrewer＠hotmail.com

Hi, St. Patrick's day is just around the corner and we have once again brewed Pot of Gold Potato Stout for the occasion. Stop by (1430 Washington Ave. S.)the Town Hall Brewery and give it a try. We will release the newest member of the family Thursday 3/13. From 5-6 get a pint of Potato Stout for just $1! Yes, we used the Yukon Gold Potato for the creation of this spring-time(?) treat. Hope to see you........... Cheers, Mike

22 years, 9 months

Re: Club Shirts

by allan.boyce＠usbank.com

Gloria? Are you listening? Would you be willing to work with Pete on jazzing up the MhBA logo for Bowling Shirts? I think Pete had some specific ideas on it.... - Al Pete <the_pete33@yaho To: MBA(a)thebarn.com o.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Club Shirts mba-bounce@theba rn.com 03/07/2003 11:30 AM <From Post on mnbrewers group on yahoo groups> If you cant vote because your not in the group you can send it to me at the_pete33(a)yahoo.com. Hello Gang, A couple of weeks ago, at BJCP class, we tossed around the idea of getting custom club shirts made for MNHBA members. The idea was to wear them at AHA Nationals in Chicago (You all need to come!), but they won't be specific to that. It was sort of a consensus to get bowling shirts. I dug around the Internet and found www.bowlingshirt.com. They seem to be the most reasonably priced: 25 shirts with a 4 color print = $41.15 + $4.95(optional) per word embroidery (nickname above pocket). 50 shirts with a 4 color print = $36.55 + $4.95(optional) per word embroidery (nickname above pocket). I have two requests for the group. 1. Is anyone a graphic design person? I have an idea for the back, but I am a No-Talent-A**-Clown when it comes to art. 2. Everyone who is interested needs to vote on the style/color. Go to http://www.bowlingshirt.com/customs2.html Then vote at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mnbrewers/surveys? id=1045681 And remember: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Pete

22 years, 9 months

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