Duh. There's this - http://www.beertown.org/beer_turkey/drink.html
And from SunTimes.com...
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Another beverage choice is brewing
November 20, 2006
BY CATHERINE TSAI
DENVER -- When it comes to dinner, even Thanksgiving dinner, Jorge de la
Torre orders beer, not wine.
It's not that he doesn't know or like wine. After all, he is the dean of
culinary education at Johnson & Wales University in Denver. Rather, he
thinks many so-called craft beers -- once better known as microbrews -- can
make better pairings with food than wine.
And there may be no better time to test his theory than at Thanksgiving,
when dinner plates become cacophonies of taste -- savory turkey, salty ham,
sweet and tart cranberries, creamy mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie with
hints of cinnamon and nutmeg.
''That is a tough plate to match [with a wine],'' de la Torre said. ''The
beauty of beer is that with one or two beers, you can hit all those flavors
without contrasting and clashing.''
Not only is a good beer refreshing, the lower alcohol content can keep you
from getting too tipsy in front of the in-laws, and the carbonation helps
clear the palate, said de la Torre.
Craft beers generally are made using 100 percent malted barley, without the
corn or rice used in many mass-produced beers. And they come in numerous
styles, from adventuresome lagers and fruit beers to cream ales and stouts,
and on and on.
''If you're looking for flavor excitement, craft beers are where to look. If
you want to wash a meal down and be refreshed, mass-market beers are fine,''
said Bill Covaleski, brewmaster at Victory Brewing Co. in Downingtown, Pa.
Ready to try it this Thanksgiving? John Fischer, an instructor at the
Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., suggests a Belgian-style
beer, which he said have a little more alcohol and body to deal with richer
dishes, and a good balance of malt and hops. Something from Brewery Ommegang
in Cooperstown, N.Y., for example, or Golden Monkey, a Belgian-style Tripel
from Victory Brewing.
Oliver suggested any sort of brown ale or biere de garde, which is French
farmhouse ale.
De la Torre said switching beers between dishes also works well. Cream-style
ales or pale ales can cut through the fat of the skin and gravy of turkey,
while sweet doppelbocks (a strong German-style beer) can go with salty ham
and mashed potatoes.
If guests are more accustomed to sipping wine, consider the holiday dinner a
chance to introduce them to the flavors of craft beer.
''It's like a jazz record. There came one day when someone played you your
first Coltrane or Miles Davis record. Slowly you became a jazz fan, and that
just made your life better,'' Oliver said. ''It's just absolutely wonderful
to be that person who opened that door for you.''
AP
Thomas Eibner is hosting November's "Friday Before the Fhirst" homebrewer gathering this Friday. That's right -- the day after Thanksgiving, when some of us are in need of a good beer and no extended family in sight. Thomas will have several varieties of his prize-winning beer on tap, and possibly a mead as well. The event starts at 5:30 and goes to "whenever."
Run this address through your favorite mapping software:
1290 Breen St.
St. Paul, MN 55106
Hope to see you there.
I got a message this bounced. Pardon me if it's redundant.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dienhart, Paul - Paul_Dienhart(a)cargill.com
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 5:25 PM
> To: 'mba(a)thebarn.com'; 'sphbc(a)sphbc.org'
> Subject: Thomas Eibner's on Friday
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> Thomas Eibner is hosting November's "Friday Before the Fhirst" homebrewer gathering this Friday. That's right -- the day after Thanksgiving, when some of us are in need of a good beer and no extended family in sight. Thomas will have several varieties of his prize-winning beer on tap, and possibly a mead as well. The event starts at 5:30 and goes to "whenever."
>
> Run this address through your favorite mapping software:
> 1290 Breen St.
> St. Paul, MN 55106
>
> Hope to see you there.
>
>
>
Some of you have tasted a mead I made with some tart cherry juice
concentrate, a few of you even liked it. I'll coordinate a buy of some
equivalent tart cherry juice (my mead was made from concentrate purchased
from a orchard I was driving by in Utah).
The juice will be from http://www.brownwoodacres.com/cherry.htm, a
quart is the equivalent of 2 gallons of fresh juice. I used 2 quarts
(equivalent of 4 gallons of juice) in my batch.
The price is $12.95 per quart plus shipping. Shipping should be a flat
rate prorated over the whole order. I suspect we will end up at less
than $1 per quart in shipping.
Get your order to me by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 21st. When the
bottles arrive you will have to get to my house in Eagan to pick them up.
The juice needs to be refigerated or frozen for storage, it should be cool
enough outside that mother nature will keep it cool until you pick it up.
Note the same source also has the following juice concentrates we
can include in the order:
Pomegranate -- 18.95 per quart
Wild Blueberry -- 36.95 per quart
Red Raspberry --18.95 per quart
Cranberry Juice -- 12.95 per quart
--
Steve Piatz piatz(a)cray.com
Cray Inc. 651-605-9049
1340 Mendota Heights Road cell: 651-428-1417
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
-----Original Message-----
From: Juno Choi [mailto:juno@northernbrewer.com]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 7:31 PM
To: Al Boyce
Subject: A Favor?
Hey Al-
Can you post the below text to the MN Brewers e-mail list? Thanks!
*Thanksgiving Sale!
Friday, November 24th , 2006
When from 8:00 AM to 5 PM (We'll be closing early!)
8:00 to 9:00AM Early Bird Special - 20% Off Total Purchase*
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM - 15% Off Total Purchase*
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM - 10% Off Total Purchase* (Club Members Get 15% Off
Total Purchase)
There will be free coffee, donuts and some specialty beer food items.
Yummo!
Hourly Raffles for Gift Certificates and T-Shirts and more.
Also we will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.
* Some items excluded, see store for details.*
Members of the St. Paul and MHBA clubs:
Visit the Mash-Out Web page <http://www.mnbrewers.com/mashout> for details on one of the top homebrew contests in the country - our own! The Mash-Out offers fabulous prizes for every winner and hand-made wooden chalices for best-of-show winners in beer, mead and cider categories.
Key Dates:
Jan. 1-13, entries accepted
Jan. 26-27, judging at the Klub Haus in St. Paul
Jan. 27, "Jamaica in January" themed beer banquet and awards ceremony
Judge!
Judges and volunteers are pampered with an in-door "Pub Crawl," a Brewpub Brewers Forum and the opportunity to pre-order growlers from regional brewpubs. It's a lot of fun, and you can sign up now.
Banquet in the islands
Chef Manfred Krug is going tropical with an island-themed menu this year. "Let's get together and feel all right" at the "Jamaica in January" banquet on Jan. 27. The cost is $30, and you can sign up now. The complete menu will be posted in the near future.
Special Events
Back by popular demand: the Eis-Anything category with its stained-glass trophy. Put the cold weather to practical use by doing ice versions of your beer, mead or cider creations. Multiple entries allowed. Also back is the New Entrant category. If you haven't entered a beer contest before, this one is for you.
Everyone is sure to have a nICE time at the Mash-Out 2007.
Standings have now been updated with the results from Spooky and Hoppy
Halloween.
Next leg in the circuit is Land of Muddy Waters, sponsored by MUGZ:
http://www.mugz.org/lotmw/DearFellowBrewers.asp
A few people have asked about how to add taps to a chest freezer after
seeing how I did mine. Here's an article I based it on.
http://www.oregonbrewcrew.com/freezer/freezer.html
Here's another article about a similar project:
http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1986/42894/kegerator.htm
There was also an article in Zymurgy in the May/June 2001 issue.
I made mine out of cedar from Menards for about $25 and the
faucets/shanks/etc are from Superior for around $120 without handles. I
added a drip tray from Williams Brewing for $19+shipping and it's all
finished in polyurethane for waterproofing.
Let me know if you have any questions or want to visit to take a look
(or a taste).
--
//Mike Behrendt
MGBehrendt(a)comcast.net
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...
well, I have others. Groucho Marx
Hey folk, last Sunday was warm and the cider was flowing.
Thanks to all the folks that came out and made it a wonderful event ...
But, someone is missing a jacket. I found it on the trailer we took out
to pick up apples. Anyone missing a jacket?
Hey, it fits me ... so it will find a good home if no one claims it. ;-)
Mark
Forwarded from the AHA TechTalk mailing list.
Roger Deschner rogerd(a)uic.edu
============== "Give a man a beer and he wastes an hour. ===============
============ Teach a man to brew and he wastes a lifetime." ============
------forwarded message----------------------------------------------------
From: Jim Homer [mailto:jimhomer@att.net]
Sent: Tue 11/7/2006 7:54 PM
Subject: 2007 AHA National Homebrewers Conference
The 2007 AHA National Homebrewers Conference "Homebrewing With Altitude"
will be June 21 to June 23 at the Four Points by Sheraton Denver
Southeast in Denver, Colorado. Come to Denver to share homebrew with
hundreds of enthusiastic homebrewers and learn the latest in homebrewing
techniques.
The conference will begin Thursday, June 21 and run through the Grand
Banquet Saturday evening. The pro-brewers night will be Thursday
evening, Club Night will be Friday. There will be pre-conference events
Wednesday evening and Thursday. If there is enough interest we will
have brewery tours on Wednesday. Second round judging of the National
Homebrew Competition will be Thursday, June 21. Conference talks that
run during the judging will be repeated Friday or Saturday.
The Four Points by Sheraton Denver Southeast is in walking distance to
an RTD Light Rail stop, providing access to the brewpubs of South Denver
and downtown Denver. Details of the conference and competition will be
at www.beertown.org/events/hbc/index.html .
We have a large committee working together to put on a great conference.
Details will be posted on the web site as they emerge. We look forward
to having a homebrew with all of you in Denver.
Cheers,
Jim Homer
Bob Kauffman
Conference Co-chairs
2007 AHA National Homebrewers Conference
Homebrewing With Altitude
