mba August 2006

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by aboyce＠mn.rr.com

-----Original Message----- From: philosopher(a)alemakers.com [mailto:philosopher@alemakers.com] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:17 PM To: fletty(a)umn.edu; missneava(a)kc.rr.com; scott.dennis(a)pioneer.com; johnf(a)payflex.com; susanruud(a)aob.org; susan-walsh(a)uiowa.edu; homebrew(a)sunflower.com; jrager(a)swbell.net; Gary.Shellman(a)gd-ns.com Subject: FOAM Cup Homebrew Competition Fellow High Plains Homebrewers, FOAM Cup 2006 is coming soon! Once again, it is part of the High Plains Brewer/Club of the Year circuit. I have attached a 1-page flyer. Please print and distribute or pass the word any way you can to your club members and others. You can get the complete rules and detailed information from the FOAM Cup link on our web site www.alemakers.com. The entry window will be Sep 1-15. Judging will be Sep 22 and 23. We will have on-line registration up and running on August 15. Online registration is much preferred by us and cost you $1 less per entry. If you know of somebody who could put up an 11x17 poster, let me know and I will send it to you. I am sending this message to all of the contacts that I can find for clubs in the high plains area (OK, KS, NE, SD, ND, MN, and IA). If you know of others, please forward this information. Please reply with any questions, Thanks, Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers Jeff Pursley, Organizer FOAM Cup 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

19 years, 4 months

SUMMIT BIG BREW EARLYBIRD TICKET PURCHASE FRI 10AM

by allan.boyce＠usbank.com

For those of you NOT going on the BEER GOOD BUS TOUR on Sept 30 .... Here's an early-purchase opportunity for the SUMMIT BIG BREW from Cities 97.... THE SUMMIT BIG BREW IS COMING Have a pint as we celebrate Summit Brewing Company's 20th Anniversary and you can buy your tickets before anyone else! The Summit Big Brew features Soul Asylum, The Subdudes, Richard Thompson, Cake, Tapes 'n Tapes, and more on Saturday, September 30th from noon to 10pm on Harriet Island. Early On-Sale: Friday (8/4), 10am-10pm Password: SuMMit97 (it's case sensitive) Ticket Price: $25 Ticket Limit: None Link: https://secure.communitytix.com/OnlineCTTWSummitBrew/seatSelect.asp?WSadmis… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ==============================================================================

19 years, 4 months

Get those entries to Northern Brewer or Midwest for MN State Fair HBC

by Sean and Michelle Hewitt

Ladies and Gentleman, Starting TODAY, Entries accepted at drop-off sites, Aug. 3 - 11, 2006 Get ready to drop-off your entries at Northern Brewer or Midwest. (Addresses and directions are on the website.) In 8 days, The registration deadline for the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR HOMEBREW COMPETITION is coming up on Friday, August 11, 2005. There are 20 medal categories this year, so 60 medals will be awarded, plus an awesome "Best of Show" large rosette. You may enter in any BJCP Beer, Mead or Cider category and you may enter one beer per BJCP sub-category. We need your entries!! VOLUNTEER AT THE CONTEST! The competition is also looking for volunteers to help judge or steward at the judging on Saturday, August 19, 2006. EVERYONE is welcome - they will pair novice judges with more experienced judges. If you're thinking that you'd like to find out what beer judging is all about or if you're thinking of taking the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) exam prep class this fall, come out and judge! You will get retro-credit for your judging once you take the BJCP test. If you're too shy to judge, you can "Steward", which involves helping the judges. We need Judges! We need Stewards! To enter your beers, To sign up to help judge or steward go to: Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition website http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mnfair/ Again, please pass this along to your homebrew friends!! I've tried to pass this to other MN clubs if anyone belongs to an another list(s) and doesn't see this post, please cross-post. Here are the clubs: Boreal Brewers, Buffalo Ridge Brewers, Cloudy Town Brewers, Cross River Alliance of Zymurgists, Grin and Brew It, Headwaters Homebrew Club, Men of our Wort, Minnesota Home Brewers Association, Minnesota Mashers, Minnesota Timberworts, Mobius Microbrewers, Northern Ale Stars, Northern Lagers, Northern Lights 'N Stouts, Rosemount Homebrewers Guild, Rum River Wort Hogs, South Metro Wort Mongers, St Paul Homebrewers Club, Three Rivers United Brewers, Up North Brewing Club and Yeasty Boy Homebrew Club Regards, Sean P. Hewitt Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition Organizer

19 years, 4 months

FWD: Distilling at 7, brewing at 8 on History

by Jim L. Ellingson

A note, reminder from our friends in Chicago. Modern Marvels on the History Channel has two programs of interest. Distilleries at 7:00 CDT and Midnight Breweries at 8:00 CDT and 1 a.m. These have been on before but are worth a look. Cheers, Jim http://www.historychannel.com/ It's one of the world's oldest and most beloved beverages--revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers. Today, brewing the bitter elixir is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. Join us for an invigorating look at brewing's history from prehistoric times to today's cutting-edge craft breweries, focusing on its gradually evolving technologies and breakthroughs. We'll find the earliest known traces of brewing, which sprang up independently in such far-flung places as ancient Sumeria, China, and Finland; examine the surprising importance that beer held in the daily and ceremonial life of ancient Egypt; and at Delaware's Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, an adventurous anthropologist and a cutting-edge brewer show us the beer they've concocted based on 2,700-year-old DNA found in drinking vessels from the funerary of the legendary King Midas. TVPG cc ----- Forwarded message from Roger Deschner <rogerd(a)UIC.EDU> ----- X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 128.101.142.227 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:59:52 -0500 Reply-To: Roger Deschner <rogerd(a)UIC.EDU> From: Roger Deschner <rogerd(a)UIC.EDU> Subject: Re: history channel - brewing 8/2 9-10pm To: CBS-HB(a)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU BEWARE: These posted times are EASTERN time! Roger Deschner rogerd(a)uic.edu On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Tom Fitzpatrick wrote: >These are both good shows worth watching ... they are reruns. >Modern Marvels is a good series. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chicago Beer Society Home Brewer List >> [mailto:CBS-HB@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Rodney Kibzey >> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:25 PM >> To: CBS-HB(a)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU >> Subject: Re: history channel - brewing 8/2 9-10pm >> >> >> Also right before the brewing episode: >> >> Distilleries. >> Airs on Wednesday, August 2 at 8:00pm ET >> >> From water and grain...to mash...still...vat...barrel and bottle--the >> distilling of alcoholic spirits is a big business and >> near-sacred religion. Its >> acolytes eye the color, swirl the glass, inhale the bouquet, >> sip, and then ponder >> their ambrosia. What's your pleasure? Bourbon, Scotch, Rum, >> Gin, Vodka, or >> Tequila? We trace the history of distilling from the >> one-man/one-still tradition >> to the Voldstead Act of 1920 that devastated American >> distilleries to the >> mega-sales and high-volume distillery of today. TVPG >> >> >> Cheers, >> Rodney >> > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ------------------------------ * * Dr. James Lee Ellingson, Adjunct Professor jellings(a)me.umn.edu * * University of Minnesota, tel: 651/645-0753 fax 651 XXX XXXX * * Great Lakes Brewing News, 1569 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104 *

19 years, 4 months

(England's) National Mead Week

by aboyce＠mn.rr.com

Anyone want to go to England for National Mead Week? http://www.nationalmeadweek.co.uk/ - Al -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

19 years, 4 months

Varietal Honey article.

by aboyce＠mn.rr.com

Here's a cool article on varietal honeys from Curt Stock, for you mead makers. - Al Original Message: ----------------- From: Stock, Curtis Curtis.Stock(a)state.mn.us Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:14:00 -0500 To: sphbc(a)sphbc.org Subject: Re: [SPHBC] Varietal Honey article. They aren't as far as I now. Here is the article. -----Original Message----- From: sphbc-bounces(a)sphbc.org [mailto:sphbc-bounces@sphbc.org] On Behalf Of Drew Johnson Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:38 AM To: St. Paul Homebrewers Club - Public Mailing List Subject: [SPHBC] Varietal Honey article. I'm gathering the ingredients for mead to be made on Saturday, and I recall Curt wrote an article for the newsletter regarding different honey varieties, flavors, and what sorts of honey works well with different sorts of additives. Where are the newsletters stored on the website? -Drew _______________________________________________ sphbc mailing list sphbc(a)sphbc.org http://sphbc.org/mailman/listinfo/sphbc_sphbc.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

19 years, 4 months

MEAD DAY! Saturday, Aug 5, 10a-2pm Elk River

by allan.boyce＠usbank.com

MEAD DAY is coming this Saturday, Aug 5, from 10am-2pm!! If you've EVER been curious about mead, this is the event to attend. Bring a friend or two! Mead Day Activities will include: * Bus rides to site from Midwest available (contact alboyce(a)bigfoot.com ) * Mead Day t-shirts, etc available - http://www.cafepress.com/meadday/ - STORE CLOSES AUG. 6th!! * Curt Stock, past Meadmaker of the Year, presentation at 10am - get there EARLY! * Varietal honey tasting * Tour of working beehives * Demonstration of honey extraction * Mead tasting * Mead making * Selection of MhBA Champion for AHA National Club-Only Mead competition * Honey for sale - bring money! * AHA Memberships available (new and renewal) at a $5 discount ($33). NEW MEMBERS will get a FREE COPY of Ken Schramm's "The Compleat Meadmaker" from the AHA! (See Al Boyce, AHA Club Liaison if you're interested. NEED NOT BE AT MEAD DAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS!) * Pot-luck snacking. Bring some snacks to share also (something to soak up the mead would be good....) This year, we will be having a joint meeting with the Minnesota Hobby Beekeeper's Association (the OTHER MHBA!) Mead Day will take place at a working bee apiary, at: Russ and Winnie Johnson's farm 23114 Variolite St Elk River, MN 55330 According to MhBA President John Longballa, honey will be for sale, perhaps only from the Johnsons (who have hundreds of pounds), but perhaps from the beekeepers who show up. It was mentioned in the bee newsletter to bring honey to sell to the homebrewers. If you're making mead, as long as we've got sanitizer, 6-10 packages of yeast, O2, nutrients, and a hydrometer or refractometer, we should be good to go. Some folks might need to heat the must to dissolve the honey, and a spoon wouldn't hurt, but there probably won't be tons of beekeepers making mead that day, IMHO. The Johnsons have well water out of the hose, so no worries about chlorine. EAT BEFORE YOU COME, and if you're coming by car, bring a designated driver! WHAT TO BRING: * Mead to Share * 2 bottles of Mead for our hosts * 1 bottle of Mead for Wilbur, our bus driver (if you're taking the hbus) * Pot-luck snacks to share * Stuff for making mead (if you're interested) * Light-colored clothing - bees tend to react agressively to darker colors (advice from Rick Oftel) * WEAR your Mead-Day t-shirts, if you bought them (ALL light-colored! :-D) * MONEY (if you want to ride the mead bus at 8:30am from Midwest - returning by 3pm - $15) * MONEY (if you want to buy honey from Russ and Winnie, or other beekeepers - $??) * MONEY (if you want to join/renew the AHA - American Homebrewer's Association - $33... $5 discount!) * MONEY (if you want to join/renew the MhBA - $15) See you all there! - Al ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ==============================================================================

19 years, 4 months

Update--Beer Good Bus Tour III

by John Longballa

"Bad" news and good news-- The bad news is that we will now be leaving Saint Paul 30 minutes earlier than scheduled. For those coming along, that means the bus rolls out of Saint Paul at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 30th. The good news is that Don Brewington of Lake Superior Brewing Co. saw the posting for the trip and has graciously invited us to tour and taste at his microbrewery in Duluth! We'll leave 30 minutes earlier so that we can stop at Lake Superior Brewing at 10:00, tour and taste until 10:45, then roll a few blocks up the street, arriving at Fitger's just before 11:00. "Shoot--you mean we have to sample at ANOTHER brewery?!?" Yessssssss! :) Bring a friend or coworker and join us on the Beer Good Bus Tour III, touring the fall colors and alcohol producers of northern WI and MN. For those of you keeping track, that means we'll hit 9 brewpubs, 1 microbrewery, and 1 meadery. Unless you're at the GABF, why WOULDN'T you sign up? Send your $50 non-refundable deposit to John Longballa, 1211 Minnehaha Ave W, Saint Paul, 55104. The bus will be approximately $60 per person (depending on how many go). The hotel is $100 for double occupancy. Thanks, John

19 years, 4 months

[Fwd: Brewing Equipment by Brewmation]

by Mike Behrendt

In case anyone has some extra bucks to spend. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Brewing Equipment by Brewmation Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:15:23 -0400 From: Brewmation Incorporated <sales(a)brewmation.com> Reply-To: Brewmation Sales <sales(a)brewmation.com> To: Cross River Alliance of Zymurgists <mgbehrendt(a)mn.rr.com> Hello Cross River Alliance of Zymurgists, Are you looking to improve your current home brewing system? Well let me introduce you to Brewmation Incorporated. Brewmation has been established to give home brewers like you the ability to add automation to any brewing process. We provide the equipment and the tools that are found in most commercial breweries that provide consistency and control over the brewing session. If you are like most home brewers, you are constantly looking at ways to improve your system in order to make consistent and predictable batches of beer time after time. Check out our temperature logger, or the automated hot liquor tank. We also have a mash sparge system that will eliminate the guesswork on liquid flow and liquid level. Perhaps you are brewing with extract and have been holding off on making the move to all grain batches because it is too labor intensive. Perhaps brewing outdoors has turned you away from the all grain process. Our completely automated, all electric system allows you to brew indoors, year round! It is also completely automated so all you have to do is enter your recipe parameters, add your ingredients, and the system does the rest! The only labor involved is adding hops.....You don't even have to worry about boiling over, so the process already has one less step then an extract session! Please visit us at www.brewmation.com to see our line of equipment: Brewmation Products: Fully automated, all electric, home micro-brewery: http://www.brewmation.com/Brewery.html Temperature Data Logger: http://www.brewmation.com/DataBrewery.html Fully automated Hot Liquor Tank: http://www.brewmation.com/HLT.html Mash Pumps & Mash Pump Systems: http://www.brewmation.com/MashPumps.html Norprene Tubing: http://www.brewmation.com/Tubing.html Polypropylene Universal Tanks & Heating Elements: http://www.brewmation.com/Tanks.html Once you visit our site, feel free to contact us with any comments, questions, or suggestions. We will be adding more products throughout the summer and into the fall and are always looking for input on what to design. Please feel free to respond to this e-mail, or contact us via our web site. We are looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Kevin Weaver President Brewmation Incorporated www.brewmation.com If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this e-mail with "remove" in the subject line. __________________________________________ Powered by Mach5 Mailer: http://mach5-mailer.com -- //Mike Behrendt MGBehrendt(a)mn.rr.com Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx

19 years, 4 months

2 DAYS TO GO! Entries accepted at drop-off sites for State Fair Homebrew Competition

by Sean and Michelle Hewitt

Ladies and Gentleman, IN 2 DAYS, Entries accepted at drop-off sites, Aug. 3 - 11, 2006 Get ready to drop-off your entries at Nothern Brewer or Midwest. (Addresses and directions are on the website.) In 11 days, The registration deadline for the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR HOMEBREW COMPETITION is coming up on Friday, August 11, 2005. There are 20 medal categories this year, so 60 medals will be awarded, plus an awesome "Best of Show" large rosette. You may enter in any BJCP Beer, Mead or Cider category and you may enter one beer per BJCP sub-category. We need you entries!! VOLUNTEER AT THE CONTEST! The competition is also looking for volunteers to help judge or steward at the judging on Saturday, August 19, 2006. EVERYONE is welcome - they will pair novice judges with more experienced judges. If you're thinking that you'd like to find out what beer judging is all about or if you're thinking of taking the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) exam prep class this fall, come out and judge! You will get retro-credit for your judging once you take the BJCP test. If you're too shy to judge, you can "Steward", which involves helping the judges. We need Judges! We need Stewards! To enter your beers, To sign up to help judge or steward go to: Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition website http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mnfair/ Again, please pass this along to your homebrew friends!! I've tried to pass this to other MN clubs if anyone belongs to an another list(s) and doesn't see this post, please cross-post. Here are the clubs: Boreal Brewers, Buffalo Ridge Brewers, Cloudy Town Brewers, Cross River Alliance of Zymurgists, Grin and Brew It, Headwaters Homebrew Club, Men of our Wort, Minnesota Home Brewers Association, Minnesota Mashers, Minnesota Timberworts, Mobius Microbrewers, Northern Ale Stars, Northern Lagers, Northern Lights 'N Stouts, Rosemount Homebrewers Guild, Rum River Wort Hogs, South Metro Wort Mongers, St Paul Homebrewers Club, Three Rivers United Brewers, Up North Brewing Club and Yeasty Boy Homebrew Club Regards, Sean P. Hewitt Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition Organizer

19 years, 4 months

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