This looks like a fun event, and a great charity!
Please contact Mary at the phone number below if you'd like to attend, or if
you'd like to donate some beer to the event.
- Al
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P.I.N.T.S.
(People In Need Tsunami Survivors)
Craft Brew Tasting
A Celebration of Giving
$25 Suggested Donation
100% of your gift donated to Tsunami Relief
Sunday, April 10, 2005
12:00-4:00 p.m.
Music by Dan Israel, Joanna James & Apryl Electra
Lee's Liquor Lounge
101 Glenwood Avenue, Minneapolis
Private Event: Please RSVP to Pre-Register and be added to the Guest List
100-guest capacity. Pre-registered guests received free P.I.N.T.S. tasting
glass
Mary 763.772.3545 Pete 612.220.6957
Attendees to this event accept and acknowledge that he/she is attending a
private charitable
event with no financial obligation on their part and that handcrafted food
and beverages will be
served. Attendees assume all risks incidental to consumption and the event
itself and voluntarily
agree that organizers of the event and owners of the property are expressly
released from any
and all claims arising from the event.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 7:52 PM
To: Al Boyce
Subject: PINTS
Hey Al!
Feel free to send this on to the MNHB mailing list.
Let me know if you plan to contribute any crafty brew!
Pete
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The JULY 2005 issue of THE BOILER, the newsletter of the Minnesota Home
Brewers Association is online!
http://www.mnbrewers.com/newsletters/2005_07.pdf
If you volunteered to get The Boiler online, you can download it from there
now. Everyone else should be receiving this issue in the mail in the next
few days.
Have a safe and happy Independence Day everyone!
- Al
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One of the members from Club Wort is able to purchase a couple of used
whiskey barrels at $115 per barrel. The club is going to use one of
them for a brew in but we thought we'd put out the offer to see if
anyone (or any club) wanted to purchase the other one.
If anyone is interested, feel free to get in contact with me and I'll
get you more info on the barrel. First come, first served!
Thanks
Dan Langrill
dan.langrill(a)gmail.com
FYI
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From: Northern Ale Stars northernalestars(a)hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:47:35 -0500
Subject: 5th Annual Beer Collectors Trade Show
The 5th annual Beer Collectors Trade Show will be held in the parking lot
next to the Lake Superior Brewery, at 27th Ave. West and Superior Street,
on July 9th 2005 from 10am to 2pm. It is a Buy-Sell-Trade (out of your
cars trunk or your back pocket) show so people can bring items with them.
The event also includes a free raffle of beer collectibles and
tours/tastings of award winning Lake Superior Brews.
More information call Chris at (218) 349-6561.
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Homebrewers Win Medals at American Homebrewers Association's National
Homebrew Competition
Boulder, Colo. .June 28, 2005-Two homebrewers from Virginia ran away with
the national title - Homebrewer of the Year at this year's American
Homebrewers Association's (AHA) National Homebrew Competition. David and
Becky Pyle's Straight Lambic, a Belgian-style sour ale, was chosen
Best-of-Show beer garnering them the most coveted title in homebrewing. The
AHA also presented gold, silver and bronze medals in 29 style categories to
more than 87 homebrewers, June 18 in Baltimore, MD in front of 500 fellow
homebrewers at the 27th annual AHA National Homebrewers Conference Grand
Banquet and Awards Ceremony.
The 2005 National Homebrew Competition is the world's largest beer
competition with 4,128 homemade brews from 975 homebrewers in 47 states and
six Canadian provinces. The National Homebrew Competition is larger than
the world's largest competition for commercial brewers, the Great American
Beer Festival Competition, which evaluated 2,016 entries in 2004.
The competition also presented five major awards. Homebrewers won the
following titles:
Ninkasi Award (Winningest Brewer) sponsored by Boston Beer Co. - Paul Long
of Newberg, Ore., Strange Brew Homebrew Club Homebrewer of the Year
(Best-of-Show Beer) sponsored by Muntons P.L.C. - David and Becky Pyle of
Springfield, Va., Brewers United for Real Potables (BURP) Meadmaker of the
Year (Best-of-Show Mead) sponsored by Redstone Meadery - Curt and Kathy
Stock of St. Paul, Minn., St. Paul Homebrewers Club Cidermaker of the Year
(Best-of-Show Cider) sponsored by Vinoka c/o Oregon Specialty - Eric Dawson
of Rochester, N.Y., Upstate New York Homebrewers Guild Homebrew Club of the
Year sponsored by Coopers Brew Products - Quality Ales and Fermentation
Fraternity (QUAFF) of San Diego, Calif. (5th year in a row!)
Over its 27-year history the National Homebrew Competition has evaluated
53,802 brews. The first competition held in 1979 in Boulder, Colo., judged
34 beers.
2005 National Homebrew Competition Award Sponsors: Boston Beer Company,
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c/o Oregon Specialty, www.oregonspecialty.com. 2005 National Homebrew
Competition Category Sponsors:
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An Irishman, Englishman and Scotsman go into a pub and each order a pint
of Guinness.
Just as the bartender hands them over, three flies buzz down and one
lands in each of the pints.
The Englishman looks disgusted, pushes his pint away and demands another
pint.
The Scotsman picks out the fly, shrugs, and takes a long swallow.
The Irishman reaches in to the glass, pinches the fly between his
fingers and shakes him while yelling,
“Spit it out, ya bastard! Spit it out!"
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//Mike Behrendt
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I have been talking with Jason Ditsworth and Steve Schmitt, the Alaskan
homebrewers who are trying to pitch the AHA conference for Alaska in 2007.
One of the AHA's worries is that they won't be able to get enough people
to come to an Alaskan conference. We think that it could be one of the
biggest conferences ever! Where a regional conference draws heavily from
around that region, and a few from elsewhere in the country, we think
Alaska will draw people from all 50 states, and heavily from Canada as
well. We think most people will use it as an excuse to finally get to
Alaska. I know I will!
Our first mission is to prove to the AHA that there would be a sufficently
large turnout for an Alaskan conference. Towards that end, follow the link
below and sign the petition to indicate your interest in attending the
Alaska 2007 American Homebrewers Association National Conference in
Anchorage.
http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=1891
Thanks!
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Cheers,
Jim
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>From today's NYTimes.
Reprinted w/o permission for your enjoyment.
Z
June 29, 2005
Crisp, Complex and Refreshing
By ERIC ASIMOV
ON a hot summer night, a beer need only be cold and wet to satisfy. But
consider if the standard were set a little higher. Imagine a beer that
offered more than the internal equivalent of holding a cold, glistening
bottle against a flushed and sweaty forehead. What if that beer did not
merely satisfy, but inspired?
That leap from satisfaction to inspiration spans the gulf between the
proverbial six-pack of suds in the American refrigerator and a good American
pale ale. With the suds, you quench a thirst. It's a quick and specific act,
the way an animal laps from a water hole. But with a pale ale, you can
discover a host of aromas and flavors - more complex than a lager's - that
can fascinate as well as quench. The physical sensation in each swallow is
not simply of cold and wet. It's paradoxically dry and bitter and brisk and
refreshing. It stimulates the palate rather than numbing it.
That might be enough in a beer, but there's more. In each glass of good,
frothy American pale ale there's the story of an American revolution. No,
not that Revolution, although once again the British show up on the other
end of things. This is the Craft Beer Revolution, in which young American
brewers, tired of the insipid hegemony of the big beer industry, decided to
make their own beers, influenced largely by the traditional brewing styles
of England, Germany and Belgium.
Two of the earliest and most successful of these craft brewers were the
Anchor Brewing Company and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
Both Anchor's Liberty Ale and Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale were American
versions of English pale ale, a pure, mineral-y style with a dry, cleansing
bitterness that is very refreshing. The English ales tend to be subtle,
earthy and understated, reflecting the characters of the hops, that
mysterious ingredient derived from the cones of flowering plants related to
the nettle. Hops play no role in the fermentation, which is the province of
water, grain and yeast. Instead, the hops, which are added at varying times
in the brewing process, infuse the beer with bitterness and aromatics. There
are innumerable varieties of hops, each with different qualities to
contribute.
In the 1970's and 1980's, American brewers, while indebted to their English
forebears, declared their independence by using American hops in their pale
ales instead of English hops. Far from the restrained aromas and flavors of
English hops, American hops are a regular brass band, giving American pale
ales their signature raucous aromas of grapefruit, flowers and pine. It's
like redesigning a proper English sedan with tail fins and chrome. The
Anchor and Sierra Nevada pale ales inspired another generation of craft
brewers in the United States, many of whom make their own versions of pale
ale today.
In a sampling of 24 American pale ales, the Dining section's tasting panel
found an unexpectedly wide range of styles. Some were relatively sedate in
the British manner, though the aromatics were American. Others showed the
American tendency to want to make things bigger, louder, faster and more
extreme: souped-up pale ales. Yet they stopped short of crossing over into
another style, that of India pale ale, characterized by alcohol levels
beyond the 4.5 to 6.5 percent of these ales and by even more pronounced hop
bitterness.
Joe Carroll, the owner of Spuyten Duyvil, a beer bar in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, who joined Florence Fabricant and me for the tasting, took a dim
view of some of the more assertive versions, suggesting that brewers
confronted with problems were taking an easy way out.
"It's more difficult to brew a more simple style," he said. "Some rely too
much on big, in-your-face American hops to mask faults."
Our second guest, Paul Sullivan, a beer writer and home brewer, had a more
charitable interpretation of the bigger style, though he did say he
preferred the subtler, more balanced examples, as did Ms. Fabricant. I did
too, though I felt that, no matter the style, these ales were all linked by
a brisk, bracingly bitter quality that is not only wonderfully refreshing in
hot weather, but also a great complement to spicy food of all sorts.
Although we all said we preferred the subtler style, our top selection,
Dale's Pale Ale, made by Oskar Blues Brewery of Lyons, Colo., was one of the
more aggressive ales in the tasting, with assertive floral and citrus
aromas. But the ale was so well balanced, so lively and dry, that its
extroversion simply did not matter. The same was true of our No. 3 beer, the
Flying Dog Classic Pale Ale, which was clean and precise, yet with great
personality. By contrast, our No. 2 pale ale, from Otter Creek, was subtle
and complex, though also with that distinctive bitter signature.
As in every tasting of beer and ale, the biggest problem we encountered was
with freshness. Mr. Carroll expressed shock at the number of ales that
showed signs of damage from exposure to high heat or direct light. For all
the he-man, macho attributes foisted on beer by marketing, it is
surprisingly fragile and needs to be handled delicately. That means it needs
to be refrigerated as much as possible and protected from direct light. Mr.
Sullivan suggested that if you are selecting beer from one of those
perpetually lighted coolers, choose bottles from the back, where they are at
least partly protected.
In our tasting, ales from well-regarded brewers like Stoudt's, Dogfish Head,
Bear Republic and even some that made our list showed signs of poor
handling. One possible solution to the light problem, at least, was staring
us in the face right after the tasting, when the identities of all the brews
were revealed. Our No. 1, Dale's Pale Ale, came in a can.
A can! Not long ago, cans represented all that was wrong with the
assembly-line American beer industry. No craft brewer worth a copper brew
kettle would even consider putting his precious ale in a can. But times have
changed, and some brewers say that cans are lighter and easier to recycle
than bottles, and offer complete protection against light.
It might not be easy to find a can of Dale's for a while in the New York
area. Oskar Blues is negotiating for a New York distributor and only
recently became available in New Jersey. But if not Dale's, certainly others
in our Top 10, like Saranac and Brooklyn, are widely sold. And then there
are Anchor and Sierra Nevada, the pioneers, which have moved far beyond
their microbrewery origins. Today these beers are sold all over the country.
In New York you can find them in seemingly every deli and supermarket. And
if some of the newer, smaller brewers have surpassed them in terms of
distinctiveness, they both still make lively, top-quality brews.
So if, on this holiday weekend, you open a bottle or two of American pale
ale, raise a toast to these two brewers, who helped to start the other
American Revolution, the one that went off not with a shot but with a pop, a
pour, a swallow and a smile.
Bottoms Up: Beer Doesn't Have to Be Boring
Oskar Blues Brewery Dale's (Lyons, Colo.)
$1.30, 12 oz.
*** ?
Assertive floral and grapefruit hops aromas, clean, dry, lively and
balanced.
Otter Creek (Middlebury, Vt.)
$1.55, 12 oz.
***
Subtle, complex hops aromas of pine and citrus; delicious bitter flavors
that linger.
Flying Dog Classic (Denver)
$1.50, 12. oz.
***
Benchmark American pale ale, with potent citrus and floral hops aromas, and
brisk, refreshing flavors.
Southampton (N.Y.)
$4, 22 oz.
***
Balanced and harmonious; crisp, clean and refreshing.
Yards (Philadelphia)
$1.20,12 oz.
***
Lively, with very assertive hops aromas balanced by malt flavors.
Saranac (Utica, N.Y.)
$1.30, 12 oz.
** ?
Grapefruit and caramel aromas, with bitter, lingering flavors.
Anchor Liberty Ale (San Francisco)
$1.60, 12 oz.
**
Dry, clean, crisp and refreshing.
Sierra Nevada (Chico, Calif.)
$1.50, 12 oz.
**
Mild hops aromas; nice balance of fruity and bitter flavors.
Brooklyn Ale
$1.60, 12 oz.
**
Grapefruit and caramel aromas, with a pleasing bitterness.
Smuttynose Shoals (Portsmouth, N.H.)
$1.75, 12 oz.
**
Citrus and caramel aromas; full-bodied and pleasing.
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Golfers?
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From: Mark van Wie mark(a)muddypig.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:26:44 -0500
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
Subject: Muddy Pig Golf Snouting
It is that time of year again?
The 2nd Annual Golf Snouting benefiting the
Crisis Nursery of Ramsey, Dakota, and Washington Counties
Thursday, July 21st Oak Glen Golf Course
1599 McKusick Road
Stillwater, MN 55082
Noon Registration
1:00 p.m. Shotgun Start
Dinner and Awards Party at
The Muddy Pig
162 North Dale Street
St. Paul, MN 55102
For $80 per golfer this event will include the round of golf, use of cart,
range balls, dinner and all special contests and prizes. If you are
interested in playing and or sponsoring a hole, please contact,
<mailto:mark@muddypig.com>mark(a)muddypig.com,
<mailto:johnschatz@mn-one.com>johnschatz(a)mn-one.com, or
<mailto:jnbwhite99@aol.com>jnbwhite99(a)aol.com (Bill White). A sign up list
will also be at the Muddy Pig (651) 254-1030.
As a reminder, we raised $6,000 for Crisis Nursery last year and with your
support we would like to top that!
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