mba September 2004

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by Steve Fletty

Please forward to your brew club members if this doesn't go to a list: -------------------------------------------------------------------- And you don't have to be there to win!! The winning brewers in the upcoming Upper Mississippi Mash-Out (surf on over to http://mnbrewers.com/mashout for all the details) will be awarded things like: -JSP malt mill -Party Pig -50 lb sack of Moravian pilsner malt -a case of Summit beer -Promash software -one gallon of orange blossom honey -Redstone mead and shirt -yeast -hops -brew shop gift certificates There are prizes for all first, second and thrid place beers, plus Best of Show prizes. The above list doesn't inlcude door prizes at the Best of Show ceremony at Summit. The deadline for entry is coming up. Don't forget to sign up for the pub crawl and be sure to stop by to help out judging.

20 years, 10 months

REMINDER: MHbA Club meeting is this Saturday, 3PM at Barley John 's

by Crist, Jonathan

Greetings from the Prez Just a quick reminder that we have our October Club Meeting this Saturday October 2nd, 3PM at Barley John's Brewpub in New Brighton. The weather should be okay for sitting on the terrace. A couple of topics that will be discussed at the meeting: Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day Upper Mississippi Mash-Out contest moved to January 1st round Nationals in Minneapolis next year Cider press date and Cider buy information Fall BJCP exam date Winter BJCP class signup Brew-a-rama Style of the Month and the Club Only competitions Christmas Party date November meeting location Possible dates for a swap meet And that is just during the 1st pint See you Saturday! Jonathan Crist

21 years, 1 month

Beer in Every Course

by Michael Behrendt

From today's Strib: BEER IN EVERY COURSE Chef Manfred Krug will demonstrate that beer isn't just for drinking Oct. 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Chef's Gallery, 324 S. Main St. in Stillwater. He'll demonstrate how to make classic beer cheese soup with chives and popcorn, beer-battered walleye tidbits with Cajun rémoulade sauce, Guinness-braised lamb shanks over traditional cabbage and potatoes; and dark beer chocolate cake with cranberry Ale vanilla sauce. Cost is $65; call 651-351-1144.

21 years, 2 months

Barley Johns - Keg Cleaning Demo

by Rick Oftel

Guys and Gals, Every now and then, we have an opportunity to get together and discuss interesting things about beer and this Saturday is one of those opportunities. We have a bunch of club business to discuss and I will be doing a short educational presentation about keg cleaning and sanitation. I will bring all the tools and chemicals I use, answer good questions, field snide remarks, and completely ignore troublemakers. With that in mind, it is going to be a fun meeting and hopefully, you can take something home especially if you are new to kegging or want to get a dialog going. John Lonbella will have a presentation on "teach a friend to brew." I will also add a small element to this message and will be opening up my brewery in the near future for folks that want to see a compact all grain operation actually operate. Hope to see you all this Saturday at Barley Johns. Remember to support your local microbreweries. If you don't, we will have more Eden Prairies! Later Rick

21 years, 2 months

Re: Two email lists?

by Rick Oftel

Great question Chad. >From my perspective, the original ((@thebarn) list was developed when yahoo referred to an exciting horse ride and not computers. Personally, I have never been able to navigate the yahoo stuff very well and found an excessive increase of spam occurred when I signed up for that group. Many contest functions are routed through the yahoo site. Most general club announcements are best served by the barn. This either helps, hinders, or confuses. Welcome to the groups Rick Oftel >>> Chad Walstrom <chewie(a)wookimus.net> 09/29/04 01:00PM >>> I'm new to the group, so pardon my naivete, but why do we have two email lists? -- Chad Walstrom <chewie(a)wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */

21 years, 2 months

National Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day

by John Longballa

Fellow Brewing Missionaries-- As you may know, Saturday, November 6 marks the day known as the American Homebrewers Association's National Teach A Friend To Homebrew Day. The MN Homebrewers club will celebrate the occasion with an informative brewing party. The extract brewing demonstrations begin each hour, on the hour, from the time the first hops are dropped in at 10:00 A.M. until the final stove shuts off after the 2:00 batch. The place is the patio at Barley John's Brewpub, located at Old Highway 8 @ County Road D; New Brighton, MN 55112. The phone number is 651.636.4670. Take the County Road D exit west off of 35W North, and go about two blocks. Tents will be erected in case of inclement weather. I am gently requesting a few things here-- 1) Please join us for the celebration! 2) Please bring a friend, co-worker, family member--anyone who has always seemed more than casually interested in your rather unique hobby. 3) Please consider being an instructional brewer at the event! (info below) 4) Please consider being a Mashing Mentor! (info below) On Saturday, November 6, we will have an open-house style party, during which many different versions of the same recipe will be brewed--something of a brewing experiment. We will start a batch each hour, on the hour (10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, and 2:00), so that whenever interested parties arrive, they will never be far from the start of a new demo. The recipes will all be the same (a Northern English Brown Ale--BJCP category 11C) except for the yeast. Each instructional brewer will utilize a different yeast strain. At the Christmas party, we can line up the beers and taste for differences! Please volunteer to brew and to explain the process to a small group of interested people. Besides door prizes, catalogues, and coupons (for the newbies!), I think that it would be great at this event for interested neophytes who do not know someone in the club to connect with an established brewer in a sort of mentoring program. This can be very casual, and can be as simple as giving the newbie your name and number, so that she/he can call with those questions that inevitably arise while making those first few batches. A coworker of mine just brewed his first batch, and he called me numerous times while brewing it. I was glad to help, and he was relieved to know that there was a willing mentor who loved talking him through that first batch. I think that people who are watching the demos will be more inclined to brew on their own later if they have a name and a face to associate with the hobby, and especially if they know that there is a kind and knowledgeable person they can call when the wort boils over, or when the yeast won't kick in, or when they're trying to remember if it's three-quarters CUP of priming sugar or three-quarters POUND. SO-- what we need, besides your attendance, is this-- JOIN us Saturday, November 6 at Barley John's BRING a potential brewer TELL me that you'll bring your very basic setup and brew an extract batch (with steeped specialty grains) while talking people through the steps. I'll try to get the ingredients donated, but please consider that you might need to pay for the batch that you brew (but you get to KEEP it!). TELL me that you're willing to meet, greet, and exchange digits with one of the potential brewers, so that he/she might call you with brewing questions when he/she starts brewing Please get back to me, John Longballa, at 651.292.9693, or at jlongb(a)ties2.net Help us inspire a new generation of brewers, so that handcrafted beer never goes out of style again. Thank you for your participation! John

21 years, 2 months

Bulk Malt

by John Katics

I will be purchasing bulk malt soon. I don't have the exact prices yet but will shortly. Imports should be less than .50 lb (27.50/bag) and domestics about .40 lb (20/ bag) On the menu: Paul Pale Ale Malt Dingemans Pilsen Meussdoerffer Pilsen Meussdoerffer Munich Cargill Euro Pils Cargill Two Row pale If you wish contact me. I will probably order Wed. Full bags or bust. John Katics 612-201-5908 john(a)katics.com

21 years, 2 months

Re: trying to subscribe to the barn. USE the WEB PAGE PLEASE

by Jim Ellingson

Hi Chad, Easiest way to do it is via the web page. <<BEGIN canned message>> Welcome to mba(a)thebarn.com aka My(your) Beer Alias... It's supported by "ecartis" so you can unsubscribe/subscribe yourself. best bet is to go to the web page. http://www.thebarn.com/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi Cheers, Jim On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:00:23PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > I'm trying to subscribe to the mba list, but for some reason, I'm not > being very successful at it. Help? I'm sending to > mba-admins(a)thebar.com as instructed on the website, but I'm not > receiving any responses. > > -- > Chad Walstrom <chewie(a)wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ > assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */

21 years, 2 months

American Beer

by Jason Nelson

This film looks interesting...the list of breweries is impressive. http://www.ifpmsp.org/cs_schedule04.htm#beer http://www.sixhundred.com/ http://www.beerscribe.com/americanbeer.htm AMERICAN BEER Filmmaker Present to Introduce Film Gentlemen...Start your livers! Since the best beer in America is locally-made and available, Brooklyn filmmaker Paul Kermizian and four friends hit the road to visit a button-busting 38 breweries in 40 days! In the 1970's, there were only 50 major beer bottlers in the U.S. Today there are over 1,700 individual brewmasters throughout the country bottling their personal experiences as tinkerers, closet brewers, cooks and entrepreneurs in the form of unique beer recipes. Some of these former you-name-its have become the most recent captains of industry; others might better be described as drunks! All their stories about beer and beer-making are inspired: crazy ingredients, brewing in basements, starting from scratch, sampling the wares, fighting the big three brewers, and of course, the perfect cure for hangovers. And speaking of hangovers, don't forget about our road-tripping, glass-tipping lads behind the camera. From Maine to Oregon, they must sample at least five pints of the best beer in America each night for over a month! That adds up to a lot of drinks, drunks, chucks, cheeseburgers, naps and new belt notches. Can our fearless filmmakers get to New Orleans before cirrhosis sets in! In the true, ahem, spirit of Central Standard, American Beer amusingly shows how much more interesting, inspired, and rewarding America is once you tap into a keg of our subculture and, well, flush the mainstream! Director: Paul Kermizian Producer: Paul Kermizian Cinematographer: Jon Miller Editor: Paul Kermizian Music: Bob Gilligan Featuring: Jeremy Goldberg, Paul Kermizian, Jon Miller, Robert Purvis, Richard Sterling St. Anthony Main 4 - 1:45 PM - Sat., Oct. 16th St. Anthony Main 5 - 10:00 AM - Sun., Oct. 17th This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately.

21 years, 2 months

Spooky Brew Review Homebrew Competition

by Roger Deschner

Announcing the 13th Annual (Scary number!) Chicago Beer Society Spooky Brew Review Homebrew Competition. This is an AHA Sanctioned competition. Enrties will be accepted October 13-22 and may be dropped off at various Chicago area locations. Judging will be Saturday October 30th at Emmett's Ale House in Downers Grove IL. (Former location of Founders Hill Brewpub). Styles will be 2004 BJCP styles PLUS special Frightening Categories. For complete information, including style guidelines, entry forms, and how to register to steward or judge, see http://www.chibeer.org/spooky04.html UKG Members: Bring entries to UKG picnic, Oct 16. Silverado Members: Bring entries to Silverado meeting, Oct 13. CBS Members: Bring entries to Social Night at the Map Room, Oct 20. BOSS Members: Beer Gear in Tinley Park is a dropoff point. Please forward this notice to other area clubs. Roger Deschner Listmeister, Chicago Beer Society rogerd(a)uic.edu ============== "Give a man a beer and he wastes an hour. =============== ============ Teach a man to brew and he wastes a lifetime." ============

21 years, 2 months

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