mba August 2003

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by Mike Behrendt

I've had several conversations with the staff at City Hall including the Police Dept. The problem with sales of growlers at Hops Eden Prairie is due to a city ordinance. There are two reasons: 1 - The police are concerned about public safety, i.e. people take a growler, drink it and do dumb things. 2 - The city controls off-premise liquor sales and actually owns the only stores in the city. They don't want competition. The Liquor Director was actually interested in selling the growlers at the stores, but that wouldn't be very good. To get this changed: 1 - we'd need to contact the City Manager and ask that the ordinance be repealed/changed/whatever. 2 - we'd need to give a presentation to the City Council and then they would have to approve it. Not sure what the club could really do, I don't know how many of us live and/or work in Eden Prairie. Maybe some petitions at the restaurant and other restaurants, maybe some emails, maybe boycott their stores (like both of us who live in Eden Prairie) email addresses of interest: sneal(a)edenprairie.org - City Manager - Scott Neal allcouncil(a)edenprairie.org - entire city council duram(a)edenprairie.org - he's the Liquor Director - Don Uram police@......... dcarlson@........ police Chief Dan Carlson //Mike Behrendt email - MBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com

22 years, 3 months

Ren Fest Volunteers

by Kris England

So the Ren Fest Demo is a go as I said before. We will be making a steinbier and doing a modern demo as well if we have enough people. I need to know who wants to come and help and also your costume size :) Yes, they provide costumes for us!! The date is Sunday August 17th and I need to know who is going by Monday morning!!! Kris Best Regards, Kristen England PhD Candidate Univ of Minnesota Department of Pharmacology Medical School 6-120 Jackson Hall 321 Church St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455

22 years, 4 months

ABR ticket now on sale...

by Marc Donnelly

Looks like tickets are on sale now! Less then a month away. http://www.mncraftbrew.org/page3.html

22 years, 4 months

Great Taste Opportunity

by Will Holway

It looks like I may have an extra ticket available for the Great Taste. You would be helping out at the Hops table, let me know if anyone is interested. It is this Saturday in Madison. Cheers WH __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

22 years, 4 months

DEADLINE TODAY!!!: Registration for MN State Fair Homebrew Competition!

by allan.boyce＠usbank.com

Deadline is TODAY!! for registering for the Minnesota State Fair Homebrew competition!! Go to: http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mnfair Allan V Boyce To: mba(a)thebarn.com, Sphbc(a)sphbc.org, ctblist(a)cloudytownbrewers.org, 07/25/2003 09:44 Phc-club(a)yahoogroups.com, wayneat(a)citlink.net AM cc: Subject: Registration is OPEN for MN State Fair Homebrew Competition! Deadline Aug 6 Online registration is OPEN for the Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition! Go to: http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mnfair NOTE: The rules for this contest are DIFFERENT from most - preregistration is MANDATORY. You MUST register online between now and August 6, and entries must be shipped or dropped off between August 6 through August 14. You may ship or drop off entries to MIDWEST SUPPLIES in St. Louis Park, and drop-off only to NORTHERN BREWER in St. Paul. Details are on the web site. As of this morning, there are 8 entries, so I'd say at this moment, your odds of winning should be pretty good - if you enter! You may enter any style of beer, in one of 12 categories (you may enter only ONE beer per category): (The numbers in parentheses are BJCP Style numbers - see http://www.bjcp.org/style-index.html for details) 1. Porters and Stouts (15, 16) 2. Light Ales and Wheat Beers (3, 8, 17) 3. Belgian and French Ales (19, 20) 4. Pale Ales (6, 7) 5. Meads (25) 6. Strong Belgian Ales (18) 7. Light Lagers (1, 2) 8. English and Scottish Ales (4, 5, 10) 9. Strong Ales (11, 12) 10. Eclectic Beers (21, 22, 23, 24) 11. Dark European Lagers (9, 13, 14) 12. Ciders (26) While you're there, register to help JUDGE on Saturday, August 16th, from 10am until 6pm. Awards ceremony is on August 23 from 11a-2p at the Fair. Let's make this FIRST Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition a winner! Enter what you've got, and win a great big State Fair fru-fru ribbon for your brewery! Good luck! - Al

22 years, 4 months

Free Shipping at Northern Brewer!

by allan.boyce＠usbank.com

FYI ----- Forwarded by Allan V Boyce/MN/USB on 08/06/2003 09:35 AM ----- "Northern Brewer" <nbrewer@northernbre To: nbnews(a)nbrewer.com wer.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Free Shipping at Northern Brewer! nbnews-admin@norther nbrewer.com 08/06/2003 01:37 AM Please respond to info In celebration of Northern Brewer's 10th Anniversary (1993-2003), we are offering free shipping on all orders over $50. This is the first time we've had a major sale like this for our mail order customers, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit nervous it! Here are some important conditions: - Orders must be received by Tuesday, August 12th at 11:59 pm. - Orders *must* be placed on-line - http://www.northernbrewer.com - Free shipping can be extended only to orders shipped within the continental United States. - Not valid with any other offer or discounts (or we'll certainly lose our shirts!) Remember, shipping is a pretty expensive part of your order, and for the next week, we're going to pick up the tab. There's no better time to stock up for the upcoming brewing/winemaking season! Thanks for all your support over the past 10 years, and here's to 10 more! -- Christopher Farley Owner, Northern Brewer, Ltd. http://www.northernbrewer.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated mailing from NORTHERN BREWER 800-681-2739 www.northernbrewer.com Subscribe and unsubscribe at: http://sparge.nbrewer.com/mailman/listinfo/nbnews

22 years, 4 months

BJCP Class correction

by Kris England

The class IS on TUESDAYs and will most probably start on Sept 2nd...NOT the 6th, thats a Saturday. Sorry for the confusion! Kris Best Regards, Kristen England PhD Candidate Univ of Minnesota Department of Pharmacology Medical School 6-120 Jackson Hall 321 Church St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455

22 years, 4 months

FW: Take Some Beer Home !

by Dave Cox

Growler Alert! I am forwarding this release from one of my favorite brew pubs, the Fitgers Brewhouse in Duluth. For those of you who have not had the experience, they have an amazing variety of styles and produce some fantastic beers. My personal favorites are the triple-hopped El Nino IPA and the stout. I feel a road trip coming on... ---------- From: brewery(a)brewhouse.net Date: 6 Aug 2003 03:33:35 -0000 To: north-shore-brewer(a)earthlink.net Subject: Take Some Beer Home ! Greetings, It is just one week until the Brewhouse will start selling growlers (1/2 gallon glass jugs) of our handcrafted beer. On Wednesday August 13th for the first time you can have your beer to go. We are taking advance orders for growlers at this time. Please call 218-726-1392 to inquire. We are pouring 4 brand new beers right now, Sterling Select Ale, Castle Danger Pale, Farmhouse Saison, and Mariner Mild. Apricot Wheat will be released next week before the growler release. We are also very pleased to tell you we are now pouring real ale from a cask on a handpump. Now on the handpump El Nino Triple Hopped, next up Witchtree ESB. Please check our website www.brewhouse.net for more info. Thanks for your continued support. Cheers The Brewhouse Gang To UNSUBSCRIBE or MODIFY your profile: Click on or Copy & Paste the following link into your browser http://www.notjustemail.com/Change.php?provider_id=54&person_id=47178

22 years, 4 months

Fall BJCP Class

by Kris England

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When: Tuesdays at 6pm starting Sept 6th (tentative). It will last 14 weeks and the test will be December 6th or the 13th. Where: St Louis Park/ Hopkins at Pete and Kleins (directions later) Cost: $50 for first timers and $30 for people who have taken the test before. This is not a direct cost because all of it will be used to pay for your exam in December. Size: 20 people max! Key points 1. The main reason I chose to charge for this class is because I only want the most committed people coming to class and this way we wont loose people along the way. 2. Another reason to keep the class size small, other than space, is because there can be much more interacting with a smaller group and much more hands on. 3. Refunds will not be given!!!! Gotta choose now if you are attending or not Drop-In's This is for the few people who can make very few classes but would still like to be involved. People are welcome to attend class as long as: 1. I ok it 2. There is space 3. Cost $5/ class 4. Bring 6 pack of the weekly style of beer Class Schedule: I have attached a copy of the tentative class schedule and topics. I have changed things around quite a bit (with help from Al..thanks buddy) which should hopefully streamline the class a little more and make it more progressive and more inductive to learning. The first 3 styles of the class will be mead, fruit/ vege/ spiced beers and ciders. I put them first because they are not on the exam and should be a fun start. I have knocked out/ introduced a few tech topics: KO'd = Extract brewing, Troubleshooting 2 Intro'd = Packaging and Doctored Beer II The reason for this change was that extract brewing is not on the test and troubleshooting 2 can be done in one session. Also I really think its necessary to do a packaging topic (kegging and bottling) and another doctored beer session towards the end of the class. This doctored session will be different from the first in that all of the flavors will be at their thresh hold and MORE importantly we will be focusing on how do you tell the brewer to fix XYZ. The styles progress from lighter to darker, where possible, and always coincide with three upcoming club only competitions. Also the last class, the study session, will absolutely focus on what you need to know for the test and what you dont. Another difference will be that the first thing we will do every week, before drinking, is break off into groups and actually judge a beer, score it then discuss it. So its equates to MORE PRACTISE JUDGING = MORE EXPERIENCE = BETTER SCORE SHEETS. These score sheets will be collected from time to time to see how you are progressing. In addition, we will have mini-quizzes each week on the styles and tech topic so 1) to give you experience with questions you may be asked and more importantly 2) give you hand (not wrist) the much needed workout it will need to take the LONG exam. Finally, everyone from last years class seems to agree upon the fact that the tech topic was skimmed over way to quickly and not enough attention was given which we will give much greater focus. Im also toying with the idea of holding a pre-test the weekend before the study session so that you can get some feedback on what you need to work on. So here is basically the way the class will run: Class Breakdown: 30min - Judging 60min - Tech topic 30min - Quizzes 60min - Beer styles (drinking part) So get back to me ASAP because the spots are already filling up!!!! Kris Best Regards, Kristen England PhD Candidate Univ of Minnesota Department of Pharmacology Medical School 6-120 Jackson Hall 321 Church St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/msword -- File: Schedule.doc

22 years, 4 months

Fwd: FYI GBBF results

by Annette May

We won! As you are all aware B United is the importer of Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted both in cask form AND all year around in 12*16.9 oz bottles! Annette May B United Int -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- Scottish Favourite leaves competition 'Bitter & Twisted' A Scottish beer wins Champion Beer of Britain for the second year in a row! Champion Beer of Britain 2003 announced at the ‘Biggest pub in the World’ The Great British Beer Festival, Tuesday 5th – Saturday 9th August, London Olympia Issued: 2.30pm, 5th August for immediate use ‘Bitter & Twisted’ brewed by Harviestoun of Dollar in Clackmannanshire was today judged to be the best beer in Britain by a panel of brewers, beer writers and journalists. This is the second year in a row that a Scottish brewery has won this prestigious award following the success of Caledonian’s Deuchars IPA in 2002.The beer is described in the 2003 edition of the Good Beer Guide as, ‘a refreshingly hoppy beer with fruit throughout. A bitter-sweet taste with a long, dry, bitter finish. A golden session beer.’The Scottish brewed beer was chosen as the overall winner from over fifty finalists in eight categories including beers from tiny micros to major regional brewers.Mike Benner, CAMRA’s Head of Campaigns said, "It’s great news for Harviestoun and for Scotland. Bitter & Twisted has long been a favourite of beer drinkers and I’m very pleased to see them win the most prestigious beer competition." Ken Brooker, Owner of Harviestoun said "I’m overjoyed. It really proves that Scottish brewers are leading the way on tasty and distinctive beers. I am pleased that all the hard work from the team at Harviestoun has paid off. It’s a great way to launch our new brewery building." The Silver award went to Crouch Vale Brewer’s Gold from Essex. Bronze went to Lidstones Rowley Mild from Suffolk. Regards, Ron Fischer B. United International Inc. Division Manager - Award Winning Cask Ale, Real Cider and Perry Collection Division Manager - Core Portfolio NJ, OH, KY (001) 732 545 0543 Direct line (001) 203 938 0713 Main office <A HREF="http://www.bunitedint.com">www.bunitedint.com</A>

22 years, 4 months

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