Just a reminder - The April 1st MHBA Club Meeting will feature a malt
tasting.
I've collected 46 different malts ranging from 1.4 Lovibond to 600
Lovibond. We'll start with a few base malts, go through the range of
Crystal/Caramel malts and end with Chocolate/Black/Roasted.
We have malts from the US, UK, Germany and Belgium to compare.
Some of the malts are from a small maltster in the UK who still does
floor malting and they're the only ones that also give tours. Stop by
Tuckers in Newton Abbot and thank Richard. They have a nice brewery
attached serving great beer and one of the best beer stores which
includes some US craft beer which was interesting.
Malt descriptions will be available and you are encouraged to make your
own notes. Bring a pencil and some homebrew.
A final note - the meeting needs to end at 2pm due to another activity
at CSPS hall. So be on time!
See you on 4/1.
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//Mike Behrendt
MGBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...
well, I have others. Groucho Marx
Brewery Creek is a charming Bed and Breakfast Inn with a wonderful feature
- it has a BREWERY in it's basement, and the beer is GREAT!
Several MhBA members toured stopped at Brewery Creek on our way to the AHA
National Conference in Chicago three years ago to visit. Also, Jeff
Donahue is one of the founding members of MhBA.
Stop and stay with them if you can!
- Al
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From: Jeff Donaghue info(a)brewerycreek.com
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:07:11 -0600
To: aboyce(a)mn.rr.com
Subject: Brewery Creek
I hope you remember us. We are that Bed and Breakfast Inn in Mineral
Point with the restaurant and brewery downstairs. Maybe you stayed with
us? Or maybe you just made an inquiry. This email is an invitation for you
to visit our new and improved web site: http://www.brewerycreek.com. We
have added a lot and plan to grow the site as time allows. If you have a
few minutes, take a look! Feel free to send us feedback on what you like
or don't like.
We also have a special "take a look at the new web site" offer. Make a
reservation to stay with us before April 30th and we will give you a $20
Brewery Creek gift certificate when you check in. You can use it at the
Inn, the Restaurant, or give it away. Just mention the "take a look at the
new web site" offer when you make your reservation. (Not valid with other
offers, specials or discounts.)
Write newsletter(a)brewerycreek.com if you would like to get information
about restaurant and lodging specials.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Jeff and Deborah Donaghue
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Spring is finally here, at least according to the calendar, and for those of us who can't remember what summer looks like, I offer the above image from a 2005 Saint Paul Saints game.
The Minnesota Homebrewers Association will be partying like rock stars at the Thursday, May 18th Saints game. Tickets are $10, and the club has paid for a large reserved tailgating spot, so please let me know at jlongballa(a)newspiritschool.org as soon as you know how many tickets you want to commit to. We'll have grilling and free Saints baseballs, and, well, homebrew! :)
Don't miss this one!
John
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From: "beer.brian" <beer.brian(a)comcast.net>
To: "beer.brian" <beer.brian(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Enchanted Brewing Challenge
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:30:24 -0700
Hear ye! Hear ye!
The Dukes of Ale, New Mexicos merriest band of homebrewers, hereby proclaims the
inauguration of the Enchanted Brewing Challenge. The EBC is open to all brewers
on planet earth and offers an amateur division for all BJCP styles, as well as a
pro brewer free-for-all with an annual theme. This years theme is Radical
Brewing in the spirit of Randy Moshers book celebrating creativity in brewing.
Homebrewers may enter their unconventional concoctions in Category 23 for a
chance at a special prize. Pro brewers may enter the Radical Beer Open. Things
you should know:
o Saturday, April 29 Judging Seminar (competition protocol for beginners)
o Friday, May 5 Entry Deadline ($6 each, late entries will be consumed but
not judged)
o Saturday, May 6 Off-flavor Training Session (and entry check-in party)
o May 15-21 Craft Beer Week (discover New Mexico craft beers!)
o Friday & Saturday, May 19 & 20 Judging Sessions (judges and stewards
needed!)
o Sunday, May 21 Radical Post-Competition Party (for judges, stewards and
special guests only - rub elbows with well-known radical brewers and help
drink the leftover entries)
For all the Radical details, including entry mail-in directions, drop-off
locations, how to be a judge or steward, lodging and maps, and who to contact for
everything else, visit www.nmbeer.org or drop a line to brewer(a)nmbeer.org .
--Brian, 2006 King of the Dukes
The qualifying round of the AHA National Homebrew Competition will be held
April 21, in Des Moines, Iowa. Entries are due by April 14.
The AHA "Club of the Year" will be determined by how well our club members
do in the qualifying and the final round in this competition. For this
reason EVERYONE IN THE CLUB should send what beers they have available to
Iowa for the qualifying round!
Tthe club is sponsoring FREE SHIPPING for all dues-paid club members! Rick
Oftel has agreed to drive our entries down to Iowa, and the club will
reimburse him for his gas money. BRING YOUR BEER(S) to the MhBA Club
Meeting on April 1, noon-3pm, at 383 Michigan St in St. Paul. Gera Exire
LaTour will have registration materials available for you there - no need
to bring anything else, except a check to cover your registration fees. We
will help you decide which categories to enter your beers if you bring an
extra bottle of each to share at the meeting.
Here are the rules:
http://www.beertown.com/events/nhc/pdf/NHC06_rules.pdf
Summary:
* Only one bottle needed! (If your beer wins, re-brewing is allowed for
the final round)
* One entry per BJCP SUB-category per brewer or brewing team -
http://www.bjcp.org/styles04/
* $8 per entry for AHA members, $12 for non-AHA members - payable to AHA
(If you want to join the AHA, memberships will be available at the meeting
at a $5 discount - $33/yr instead of $38. RENEWALS TOO!)
* 10-14oz brown or green glass bottles, crown capped
* SPECIAL CATEGORY: NEW ENTRANT - for those who have NEVER entered the AHA
NHC before! (ANY style OK!)
If you want to enter your beer online prior to the meeting, you can do so
at:
https://www.regwizard.net/
If you want to fill your entry form(s) out in advance of the meeting, here
is a link to the form:
http://www.beertown.com/events/nhc/pdf/nhc06_entry_form.pdf
Here's a link to the bottle ID form:
http://www.beertown.com/homebrewing/pdf/bottleid.pdf
NOTE: CIDERS WILL NOT BE JUDGED IN IOWA so they must be shipped to the
cider-judging site:
Ship to:
NHC 2006
Halftime Beverages
2290 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
If you would like to help JUDGE at the Midwest NHC preliminary in Iowa,
contact Scott Dennis at scott.dennis(a)pioneer.com .
EVERYBODY LET'S PITCH IN AND HELP YOUR CLUB WIN THE AHA CLUB OF THE YEAR
AWARD!!!
- Al
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VOTE FOR AMERICA'S BEST BEERS!!!
MOVE FAST!!! VOTE BY MARCH 24!!!
Zymurgy magazine is doing a poll for Best Beers in America! Let's show
them that MINNESOTA has some fine beers! Rank and select 20 from the list
below, and send to:
jill(a)brewersassociation.org
or to
Jill Redding,
Brewers Association,
PO Box 1679,
Boulder, CO 80306-1679.
Jill says:
>>While you are compiling your list, please take a few extra minutes and
>>write a short review of one of the top beers on your list, in 150 words
or fewer.
>>Note: this is not mandatory, but will be appreciated.
I'M VERY SORRY if I missed listing your favorite Minnesota-made Commercial
beer! Please add it in, and email it TODAY!!!
VOTE EARLY! VOTE OFTEN!!! :-D
- Al
MINNESOTA COMMERCIAL BEER CHOICES
__Backwater Brewing
__Bandana St. Peter Red
__Bandana Hop Harvest Pale Ale
__Bandana Eagle Lake Pale Ale
__Bandana Weizenbock
__Bandana Mankato Gold
__Bandana Rapidan Brown
__Bandana Preston Wee Heavy
__Bandana Doppelbock
__Barley John's Winter Ale
__Barley John's Altbier
__Barley John's Little Barley Bitter
__Barley John's Stockyard IPA
__Barley John's Wild Brunette
__Barley John's Old Eight Porter
__Barley John's Dark Knight
__Brauhaus
__Finnegan's Irish Amber
__Fitger's Brewhouse Lighthouse Golden
__Fitger's Brewhouse Witchtree ESB
__Fitger's Brewhouse Big Boat Oatmeal Stout
__Fitger's Brewhouse El Nino Double-Hopped IPA
__Fitger's Brewhouse Starfire Pale Ale
__Fitger's Brewhouse Edmund Imperial Stout
__Fitger's Brewhouse 1100 Wheatwine
__Fitger's Brewhouse Ole Redbeard Barleywine
__Fitger's Brewhouse El Diablo Belgian Golden
__Fitger's Brewhouse Jodocus Weizenbock
__Fitger's Brewhouse Gandvik Maple Porter
__Fitger's Brewhouse Dr Spock Eisbock
__Gluek's
__Granite City Broadaxe Stout
__Granite City Duke of Wellington
__Granite City Brother Benedict's Maibock
__Granite City Northern Light Lager
__Great Waters House Ale
__Great Waters Winter Carnival Ale
__Great Waters Pot Hole Porter
__Great Waters Slapshot IPA
__Great Waters Black Watch Oak Stout
__Green Mill
__Herkimer Handy's Lager
__Herkimer Daily Pils
__Herkimer Oktoberfest
__Herkimer Red Flyer Marzen
__Herkimer Tooler's Weiss
__Herkimer High Point Dunkel
__Lake Superior Special Ale
__Lake Superior Kayak Kolsch
__Lake Superior Oatmeal Stout
__Lake Superior Mesabi Red
__Lake Superior Split Rock Bock
__Lake Superior Windward Wheat
__Lake Superior St. Louis Bay IPA
__Lake Superior Old Man Winter Warmer
__Lake Superior 7 Bridges Brown
__Lake Superior Oktoberfest
__Mantorville Stagecoach Ale
__Mantorville Smoked Porter
__O'Gara's ESB
__O'Gara's Sligo Red
__O'Gara's Cork Brown Ale
__O'Gara's Light Amber Ale
__O'Gara's Sassy Sandy Belgian Wheat
__O'Gara's Premium Lite
__O'Hara's Quarry Rock Red
__O'Hara's Golden Honey Wheat
__O'Hara's Pantown Pale Ale
__O'Hara's Sid's Irish Stout
__Rock Bottom North Star Premium Lager
__Rock Bottom Itasca Extra Pale Ale
__Rock Bottom Erik the Red
__Rock Bottom Bighorn Nut Brown Ale
__Rock Bottom Stillwater Stout
__Schell's Firebrick
__Schell's Pilsner
__Schell's Pale Ale
__Schell's Caramel Bock
__Schell's Doppel Bock
__Schell's Maifest
__Schell's Hefeweizen
__Schell's Zommerfest
__Schell's Octoberfest
__Schell's Snowstorm
__Schell's Schmalz's Alt
__Schell's Original
__Schell's Light
__Schell's Dark
__Summit Extra Pale Ale
__Summit Great Northern Porter
__Summit Amber
__Summit India Pale Ale
__Summit Grand Pilsner
__Summit Winter Ale
__Summit Maibock
__Summit Hefeweizen
__Surly Bender
__Surly Furious
__Town Hall Bright Spot Golden Ale
__Town Hall West Bank Pub Ale
__Town Hall Masala Mama India Pale Ale
__Town Hall Black H2O Oatmeal Stout
__Town Hall Hope & King Scotch Ale
__Union Station
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From: Jill Redding [mailto:jill@brewersassociation.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: Best Beers in America Survey: REMINDER!
Zymurgy needs your vote! In the July/August issue of Zymurgy we'll have
our annual survey results of the Best Commercial Beers in America as voted
by our readers.
The rules are simple: just make a list of the 20 best beers available in
the U.S. market and send it, along with your name and where you live, to
jill(a)brewersassociation.org
or to
Jill Redding,
Brewers Association,
PO Box 1679,
Boulder, CO 80306-1679.
Survey results are due by Friday, March 24. You can vote for both domestic
and imported beers, but the beers have to be available in the United
States.
We'll tabulate the results and present them, along with clone recipes for
some of the top beers, in the July/August Zymurgy.
While you are compiling your list, please take a few extra minutes and
write a short review of one of the top beers on your list, in 150 words or
fewer. Note: this is not mandatory, but will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your vote, and thanks to those of you who have
already voted!
Jill Redding
Magazine Editor
Brewers Association
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FYI. It's the same day as the MhBA club meeting, but if you find yourself
in Superior, WI on April 1st, it looks like a fun time! 30
brewpubs/breweries!
- Al
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From: Ben Brausen BenBrausen(a)aol.com
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:37:31 -0600
To: Sphbc(a)sphbc.org
Subject: [SPHBC] Gitchee Gumee Brewfest
The Gitchee Gumee Brewfest is coming up on Saturday April 1st
(4pm-8pm). Orders for tickets need to be in by March 20th (kind of
messed up that they didn't start selling them until now with the date
so close). The other option is purchasing the tickets at one of the
outlets listed on the website. We went last year and had a great
time. You will want to come early to get in line because it gets to
be over a block long (we got there about an 30mins before it opened
and were 4th in line (we were there before that but hanging out on
the track so some people got in line before us)). There are TONS of
great beers and brewpubs to goto afterwards.
http://www.ggbrewfest.com
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FYI, How to pour a perfect pint of stout.
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-guinness15mar15,1,381929.story?c…
>From the Los Angeles Times
WINE & SPIRITS
Now that's a magical pint
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Guinness' brew master teaches us the art of "the Pour."
By Charles Perry
Times Staff Writer
March 15, 2006
FERGAL MURRAY starts to pour a Guinness. It wouldn't be true to say a hush has fallen over the pub, but we are paying attention here at Casey's Irish Bar & Grille in downtown L.A. If anybody knows how to pour a pint, it's Murray . he's the brew master at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin.
Murray is everybody's archetype of a Dubliner, rugged and curly-haired with an air of wry humor, except that even more than most Irishmen, he's totally focused on Guinness. Guinness is his life; when he's in Dublin, he tastes every batch that's brewed to maintain consistency. When he's not, it's because he's on the road to check out the taps and hoses at bars that serve Guinness around the world and to show "the Pour."
There is an art to pouring Guinness Draught Stout, and it's worth knowing, since Guinness is the quasi-official drink of St. Patrick's Day, coming up Friday. The brewery estimates an average of 150 pints of Guinness will get poured every second of those 24 hours.
And the proper way to pour it is the reverse of how most beers are poured. With a lager or an ale, or even a Guinness Extra Stout (a different style of stout also bottled by Guinness), you should splash a nice, foamy head into your glass to waft the beer's aroma into the air, then turn the glass at an angle and slide the rest of the beer under the head to keep the carbonation alive.
Not so with Guinness Draught, which is about creaminess, rather than sparkle.
First you take a pint glass, preferably one that balloons slightly toward the top, a shape that lets the beer form a higher head. While the Casey's staff scrambles to find a proper Guinness glass, Murray sportingly proceeds with an ordinary straight-sided pint glass.
The next step is to put the glass under the tap . or the opening of a bottle or can . at a 45-degree angle. "Let it flow down the side," Murray says, "never allowing the tap to touch the head." Pour it about three-quarters full, leaving about an inch from head to rim.
Then you set the glass down for what is known as the "settle." Technically, Guinness Draught is more nitrogenated than carbonated. Nitrogen is less soluble in water than carbon dioxide, so it forms a smaller, tighter bubble, creating the distinctive cream-white Guinness head. (A number of beers, particularly microbrews, have also followed the nitrogen route in recent years.)
During the "settle," tiny bubbles of nitrogen rise in the dark beer, the roiling currents inside the glass producing a shimmering, cascading visual effect at its sides. "The nitrogen is trying to go back into solution, but it can't because it's not under pressure anymore," observes Murray. After a minute, about a third of an inch of head has formed.
Finally, you top up the glass, pouring straight into the head so that it forms a "domed crown" extending a bit higher than the rim. This is the dramatic moment to serve it, with some of those tiny bubbles still struggling to the top, just before it settles into the striking two-tone Guinness look, white on top and nearly black beneath, like a quaffable saddle oxford.
When poured right, this head lasts to the end of the pint. Some bartenders like to "paint" a design on top by dribbling a tiny amount from the tap while moving the glass around under it. "I can do the shamrock," Casey's bartender Naomi Schimeck boasts.
Now you drink it. "Drink through the head," urges Murray, "so you can taste the sweetness behind it." The creaminess of the head, combined with Guinness' relatively low acidity, creates the odd illusion that you're having some kind of rich milkshake-like drink with a sweet palate but a dry finish.
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The Guinness gizmo
FOR nearly 30 years, you could only get this sort of beer at bars using a special foaming nozzle for their taps. Then, in 1988, Guinness invented the "widget," a spherical gizmo that creates a surge of nitrogen bubbles when a can is opened. In 1999, the company developed a rocket-shaped widget for the bottled version, designed to give a mini surge every time the bottle is tipped, so the beer will have a draft taste. And in the United Kingdom, Guinness recently brought out an even more techno way of stirring up those tiny bubbles . an electrical gadget called the Surger that bombards a bottle with ultrasonic waves.
This sort of thing makes Guinness a rather scientifically oriented brewery, particularly for one that's 247 years old. Murray fits right in. Before studying to be a master brewer in 1985, he had joined Guinness as a research chemist . he had a science degree from Trinity College. Ten years later he was the master brewer, and he stayed on after Guinness merged with the giant beverage firm Grand Metropolitan in 1997 to create Diageo, which owns Smirnoff, Dom Perignon, Cuervo and scores of other brands.
Guinness drinkers have voted heavily for the nitrogenated version. However, Guinness Extra Stout, the widget-less bottled brew that was the only kind of Guinness Americans knew for decades, is still around.
Guinness was developed during the Colonial period to ship to thirsty British military personnel. To survive the sea voyage, it was given a larger dose of hops and a higher alcohol level. This brew caught on in West Africa, and in 1962 Guinness built a distillery in Nigeria, now the largest market for Guinness after Ireland and the UK. Guinness, says Murray, is brewed in 50 countries. The Guinness in the English, European and American markets is still made in Dublin.
A worldwide beer empire based in Ireland. Well, the brewery's founder, Arthur Guinness, did think big. When he took over the brewery property in 1759, he negotiated a 9,000-year lease for 45 pounds (about $79) a year.
So what does the landlord think of that deal now?
"That's a good question," says Murray. "In fact, I've never even heard of anybody paying. I think the city of Dublin is the landlord, and I'd imagine they're happy enough."
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