People are being most generous and are stepping forward to help out with various tasks for this Saturday's Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day at Barley John's from 10-2.
I still need one more person to be a demo brewer. The club brings you most everything--all you need is a boil vessel and a carboy. You announce to the crowd (usually 5-10 folks at any given point) what you're doing at each stage, and perhaps have them stir or measure or whatever you were about to do. Then you take home five gallons of wort! If you can bring some of it to the Christmas party as finished beer--all the better!
Call your friends and family members! Thanks to Brew & Grow, Midwest Supplies, and Northern Brewer, we're once again giving away three COMPLETE starter kits, ingredients included!
Please let me know if you can help. We'll see you saturday!
Thanks,
John
Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Chicago Beer Society Spooky
Brew Review Homebrew Competition. We had 187 entries this year, the most
in recent years.
A huge THANK YOU to our hosts at Flossmoor Station Brewpub (Winner of
2006 Small Brewery of the Year at GABF!), to all the judges and
stewards, and to all the brewers who entered beers in this year's
competition.
And now the results you have all been waiting for.
Roger Deschner rogerd(a)uic.edu -or- roger(a)chibeer.org
Organizer 2006 CBS Spooky Brew Review Chicago Beer Society
Spooky Brew Review 2006 Winners
BEST OF SHOW
1. Cathy's Cranberry Mead Joe Formanek, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. Common Cider Mike Kopp, St. Louis Brews
3. American IPA Michael Pearson, Foam Blowers of Indiana
Spooky Brew
1. What Went Wrong Wheat Patrick Duby, BABBLE
Smashed Pumpkin
1. Springtime in Gary Indiana Ron Stazuk, Urban Knaves of Grain
Amber Hybrid Beer
1. Still Steamin' Greg Cardelli, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. Big Al Alt Bob Beckman, St. Louis Brews
3. Suburban Alt Doug Newberry, Silverado Homebrew Club
American Ale
1. Son of Baltimore Brown Rodney Kibzey, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. Fox Trail Amber Ale Doug Newberry, Silverado Homebrew Club
3. 2-V or not 2-V Amber Ale Dan Hedtcke, Madison Homebrewers & Tasters Guild
Belgian & French Ales
1. BeF Jeff Sparrow, Chicago Beer Society
2. Unter der Linder Jeff Sparrow, Chicago Beer Society
3. St. Joe's Home Brew Mark McDermott, Brewers of South Suburbia
Cider & Perry
1. Common Cider Mike Kopp, St. Louis Brews
2. Plank Road Darrell Proska, Urban Knaves of Grain
3. Ole 200 Terry Mayne
Dark Lager & Bock
1. Scott Jones, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. Bishop of Munich Dunkel Jerry Sadowski, Brewers of South Suburbia
3. St. Mark's "Passover" Dunkel Mark Bransford
English Brown Ale & Porter
1. Bulldog Porter Jim Harrison, Brewers on the Lake
2. Vade Mecum Mild Ron Barbercheck, Chicago Beer Society
3. #49 Porter Stanley Harrison
English Pale Ale
1. Ordinary Bitter Mike Flaminic, Red Ledge Brewers
2. Summer Bitter Michael Pelter, Brewers of South Suburbia
European Amber Lager
1. Veronica's Oktoberfest Joe Formanek, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. Peter Young, Urban Knaves of Grain
3. Redbird George Westlund, Chicago Beer Society
Fruit Beer
1. Silly Goose Raspberry Wheat Doug Newberry, Silverado Homebrew Club
3. Raspberry Fruit Ted Grudzinski, Urban Knaves of Grain
German Wheat & Rye Beers
1. Tornado Warning Wheat Tom Seefurth, Chicago Beer Society
2. Bitzen Bock Rodney Kibzey, Urban Knaves of Grain
3. HBS wheat Ed Seaman, Urban Knaves of Grain
Indian Pale Ale
1. American IPA Michael Pearson, Foam Blowers of Indiana
2. Stonage Ale Bruce Dir, BABBLE
3. Wichansen IPA Douglas Wich, Chicago Beer Society
Light Hybrid Beer
1. Call Me Bob Beckman, St. Louis Brews
2. Cat Face Cream Ale Michael Morel, Brewers of South Suburbia
3. Insouciant American Wheat Ron Barbercheck, Chicago Beer Society
Light Lagers
1. Pizzle Drilzner Jerry Sadowski, Brewers of South Suburbia
2. Hariken Jim Harrison, Brewers on the Lake
3. Rockhead Pils Thomas Renner
Mead
1. Cathy's Cranberry Mead Joe Formanek, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. M Darrell Proska, Urban Knaves of Grain
3. Eric Duske, Chicago Beer Society
Scottish & Irish Ale
1. Irish Red Mike Flaminic, Red Ledge Brewers
2. Scotch my back Tom Seefurth, Chicago Beer Society
3. Black Jack Brad Reeg, Chicago Beer Society
Smoked & Specialty Beers
1. Stolen Bean Stout Ed Seaman, Urban Knaves of Grain
2. South Of Munich Jerry Sadowski, Brewers of South Suburbia
3. Whiskey A Gogo Doug Newberry, Silverado Homebrew Club
Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer
1. Chile Pepper Porter Patrick Duby, BABBLE
2. Dark Mourning Espresso Stout John Rathmell, Ann Arbor Brewers Guild
3. bet Stewed, Tomato Tom Seefurth, Chicago Beer Society
Stout
1. Eric Duske, Chicago Beer Society
2. Stiff & Stout '05 Doug Newberry, Silverado Homebrew Club
3. Scott Jones, Urban Knaves of Grain
Worldwide Strong Ales
1. Not A Shabby Abbey David Banass, The Brewbakers
2. Beklimming Dan Morey, BABBLE
3. Stand Up Tripel Doug Newberry, Silverado Homebrew Club
It was another great party at the Hoppy Halloween contest in Fargo this
weekend! Thanks to Susan Ruud and the rest of the PHC club for putting on a
great contest, and congratulations to the following the Twin Cities winners!
- Al
Pilsner
Gold 02.C. Classic American Pilsner Gracies Gold Curt and Kathy Stock
Bronze 01.D. Munich Helles Micks Generous Offering Curt and Kathy Stock
Light Hybrid Beer
Gold 06.A. Cream Ale Craptastic Cream Ale Curt and Kathy Stock
English Pale Ale
Bronze 08.C. Extra Special/Strong Bitter Basswood Bitter Steve Fletty
Stout
Gold 13.A. Dry Stout Silvia Cynthia Stout Rob Gronemann
Silver 13.E. American Stout Left Coast Stout Steve Fletty
India Pale Ale (IPA)
Gold 14.B. American IPA Old Bombay IPA Steve Fletty
German Wheat and Rye Beer
Gold 15.A. Weizen/Weissbier Hanks Hefeweizen Eric Biermann
Silver 15.A. Weizen/Weissbier Hefe Weizen Steve Stock
Belgian and French Ale
Gold 16.E. Belgian Specialty Ale Steval Steve Fletty
Bronze 16.A. Witbier I Love Good Wit Al Boyce
Sour Ale
Gold 17.B. Flanders Red Ale Aspiring Royalty Steve Piatz
Bronze 17.B. Flanders Red Ale Lulus Blue Adam Stern
Belgian Strong Ale
Bronze 18.B. Belgian Dubbel Dubbel Trubbel Steve Piatz
Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer
Silver 20.A. Fruit Beer Berry Patch Porter Steve Fletty
Bronze 21.B. Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer 2005 Holiday Brew
Steve Piatz
Smoke-Flavored and Wood-Aged Beer
Bronze 22.C. Wood-Aged Beer Drunken Bear Steve Fletty
Traditional Mead
Silver 26.C. Open Category Mead Unnamed Mead Steve Piatz
Bronze 26.B. Braggot Als Pre-Barrel 6x6 Al Boyce
Melomel (Fruit Mead)
Gold 25.B. Pyment Chateau Fletty Orange Blossom Riesling Steve Fletty
Silver 25.C. Other Fruit Melomel Raspberry Mead Adam Stern
Bronze 25.B. Pyment Unnamed Pyment Steve Piatz
Specialty Cider and Perry
Gold 28.B. Fruit Cider Cherry Cider Curt and Kathy Stock
Silver 27.A. Common Cider Hungry Wolf Cider Steve Fletty
Bronze 27.A. Common Cider Hobo Cider Joe Brockman
Halloween Theme Beer
Gold 31.A. Spooky Brew Tepes - 1431 Mike Behrendt & Al Boyce
Bronze 31.A. Spooky Brew Witches Brew G.L. Exire LaTour
Marc-
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Everyone else - sorry for wasting your email reading time!
- Al
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If you've been looking at information about the coming Mash Out, you
should know that we're offering two special activities:
Indoor Pub Crawl - like last year, we'll have growlers with a
variety of beers from some brewpubs. Taste the beers and help
determine the "people's choice".
Sale of growlers - a new activity - we'll be gathering orders for
growlers from some brewpubs and will deliver them during the
competition.
In order to accomplish this, I need some volunteers to talk with the
brewpubs to solicit their participation and to pick-up the growlers and
bring them to the competition site.
We'll also be offering discounts from the brewpubs as well as good beer
bars.
Here's an initial list of the brewpubs and bars that we're considering:
Granite City - Fargo, Maple Grove, St Louis Park, St Cloud, Eagan
Town Hall - Mpls
Rock Bottom - Mpls
Herkimers - Mpls
Great Waters - St Paul
Green Mill - St Paul
O'Garas - St Paul
Barley Johns - New Brighton
Mantorville
O'Haras - St Cloud
Backwater- Winona
Muddy Pig - St Paul - bar - discounts, not growlers
Happy Gnome St Paul - bar - discounts, not growlers
So, the first part - please let me know if you have a good relationship
with the brewer/manager and are willing to ask them:
If they would like to be part of the growler sale - we'll take
orders, give them the totals, pick them up and pay for them.
If they would like to donate prizes for medal winners.
This could be a "assistant brewer for a day" for a first place
medal, or a free pint, or a yeast sample, etc. Up to them.
If they would like to provide growlers for the pub crawl (this would
be a donation), we're not paying for it.
There will be a People's Choice award determined by ballots.
Offer discounts to all MashOut participants.
These would be distributed in the volunteer package and almost
anything goes, i.e. $1 of pint,
buy one get one at half price, buy 'something' get 'something', etc.
The discount could last only through the competition weekend, or any
other time that they agree with.
I have some more detailed information to review with whoever agrees to
work with a specific brewpub/bar.
The second part is to volunteer to pick up the growlers for the growler
sale and the indoor pub crawl. This needs to be done either Thursday,
January 25th or Friday, January 26th.
So, please let me know if you could work with a brewpub/bar to arrange
their participation or could help with the pickup of growlers.
Finally, if you know of other brewpubs or good beer bars or also good
restaurants to solicit, please let me know.
Thanks! See you at MashOut!
--
//Mike Behrendt
MGBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...
well, I have others. Groucho Marx
This was my suggestion to the Minnesota Twins new ballpark. Let them
hear from
you homebrewers! (There is a 350 character maximum)
Cheers!
~Brian
http://twins.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/min/ballpark/submit_ideas.jsp
You need better tasting beers. Build a microbrewery into the stadium.
Create your own Twins beers.
Imagine on a warm summer day a quaffing down a light Harmon's
Hefeweizen's. At least try to contract
in some nice brews, maybe from Granite City, or the Town Hall brewery,
locally made here in Minnesota!
Cheers everyone and good luck on the project!
---
Brian Hatcher
Sr. Master Scheduler
C.P.I.M.
Email: brian_hatcher(a)Xiotech.com
Office: 952 983 2466
Fax: 952 983 2488
Xiotech Corporation
6455 Flying Cloud Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
www.xiotech.com : www.xiotech.com/demo : Toll-Free 866 472 6764
Town Hall Brewery is about to turn nine years old! Thanks to all of you for
helping us make that happen....Now we must celebrate! Here is the schedule
for this coming week (AKA Anniversary week)
Monday- 10/23
*1 keg release Twisted Reality Barleywine aged in Jim Beam oak
*1 keg release Foolish Belgian Quadruple aged in French Oak red wine oak
Both 10+% abv and limited number of growlers of each available
Tuesday- 10/24
*1 keg release 1800 India IPA -no growlers 10oz. glasses only
Wednesday- 10/25
*U-pick um $2 pints house beer
*1 keg release India Wheat Ale -no growlers 10 oz. glasses only
Thursday- 10/26
*1 keg release Warrior Double IPA -no growlers 10oz glasses only
Friday- 10/27
*1 keg release India Brown Ale -no growlers 10 oz. glasses only
Saturday- 10/28
*3:00-4:00pm Release Anniversary Ale (annual celebration style ale)$2 pints
(growlers avail.)
*4-5 Pint Club Reception-complimentary house pours. WELCOME NEW PINT CLUB
MEMBERS!
*7-8pm Release NUMBER 9 (in celebration of our 9th birthday)10oz pours $2.
Those of you that like Belgian made Urthel-HOP IT and LaChoufe-Houblin are
going to love this beer! We borrowed some information from each of those
Belgian Double IPAs and created our own. This is a 9%abv Belgian stlye IPA
is complete with about 60BU and dry hopping with American Amarillo hops, the
same as those crazy Belgian brewers. 10 OZ. POURS $2. Growlers Available.
Each of these beers will be released at 6:00pm sharp unless otherwise noted.
How does that grab you?
See you next week
Mike
P.S. Sunday I would suggest a day of rest!
P.S.S.- We contracted a Minnesota potter to hand make a limited amount of
growlers for us. He is a talented craftsman that does all of his firing in a
wood fired kiln thus creating a 30hr process for compleation of these
pieces. These flip-top stone growlers are signed, numbered, and each a one
of a kind. I guess the clay will react to the heat/ashes differently
depending on location in the kiln. Very cool stuff! Check him out online..
his name is Bill Gossman. We consider our beer very lucky to be partnered
with him. These will be available starting Anniversary Week in VERY limited
numbers. They will be part of our new VIP Stone Club. They will guarantee
you the opportunity to purchase certain beers via your stone growler that
may not be available to the general public, such as Czar Jack. Further
details available at the Town Hall.
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