*NORTHERN BREWER RETAIL NEWSLETTER * In this issue... * New Wyeast Private Collection Strains New Limited Edition Beer Kits Global Malt Kolsch Malt 4.5° L Rahr Premium Pilsner Malt 1.5 - 2° L Cellar Craft Wine Kit Expansion More Wine Kits (Mosti Mondiale Wine Kits) Yep, Even More Wine Kits... (Winexpert 2008 Limited Edition) Northern Brewer Posters* *New Wyeast Private Collection Strains * Just in!!!! *1026 British Cask Ale Yeast.* A great choice for any cask conditioned British Ale. Produces a nice malt profile with a hint of fruit. Finishes dry and slightly tart. Apparent attenuation: 74-77%. Flocculation: medium-high. Optimum temp: 63°-72° F *1469 West Yorkshire Ale.* From a well-known and highly regarded brewery in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. Full chewy malt flavor and character, but finishes dry, producing famously balanced beers. Moderate nutty and stone-fruit esters. Bright beers easily achieved within days without filtration. For production of cask-conditioned bitters, ESB and mild ale. Alcohol tolerance approximately 9% ABV. Apparent attenuation: 67-71%. Flocculation: high. Optimum temp: 64°-72° F * 1768 English Special Bitter.* Similar to 1968, slightly less flocculent. Produces light fruit ethanol aroma. Mild malt with a neutral soft finish. Very clean. Apparent attenuation: 68-72%. Flocculation: medium. Optimum temp: 65°-80° F We also have a limited number of the previous Private Collections strains too. Get them before they are gone for good! *New Limited Edition Beer Kits * Even better than the yeast alone, our Limited Edition Beer Kits are formulated to use Wyeast's seasonal Private Collection releases, so the lineup changes regularly and may include lagers, ales, traditional ingredients or off -the-wall stuff. Like the name implies, these kits are available for a limited time only, and once they're gone they may never be back. The Inn Keeper OG: 1.043 / Ready: 4 weeks *$31.00* Thirty six major awards. Four-time Brewers International Champion. Four-time CAMRA Beer of the Year. Simply put, the muse for this kit has won more awards than any other English beer, period. From very simple ingredients comes a wonderfully well- balanced dram. Spicy, herbal, and English biscuits. Flashes of clean citrus and chewy minerals blend into a complex finish that is refreshingly bitter and remarkably dry. The way a pint was meant to taste. Truly spot on! Peace Coffee Porter Stout OG: 1.046 / Ready: 4 weeks *$27.75* Peace Coffee and Northern Brewer have teamed up to bring you an amazingly simple yet complex stout porter. Peace coffee works with local cooperatives to bring in 100% fair trade coffee from the farmers that grow it and delivers the coffee, through all seasons, by bicycle messenger. We love Peace Coffee for all these things, but just as importantly the coffee is freaking amazing! The stout porter has notes of black currants, black cherries, and cocoa with mouth filling bready malt flavors. The specially formulated coffee blend was created to lend a rich, muscular coffee backbone and provides a fruity and spicy nose. Usually 1 + 1 = 2, but in this case 1 + 1 = 1000x times more awesomer than 2. Cumbrian Double Brown Ale OG: 1059 / Ready: 6 weeks *$25.00* Who doesn't like a brown ale? The way we see it is: if a regular brown ale is good, a double brown ale is doubly good! From the Lake District of northern England comes this deep red, wickedly smooth, and decidedly dangerous libation. Invigorating and strong, this double brown ale has deep notes of caramel, mocha, toffee and chocolate. A wonderful beer to enjoy over conversation with a group of friends... or to drink by yourself, pint of Cumbrian in one hand, tumbler of Islay in the other... either way, you are in for a bloody grand evening. *Global Malt Kolsch Malt 4.5° L* Just in! An additional base malt for all you all-grainers. From a maltster co-op based in Osthofen, near Köln, Germany this malt is used by some of the brewpubs in that city to make their trademark ale. Kölsch malt has a light, sweet and extremely "German" flavor and aroma with a little bit of biscuit character. We've had good results using a multi-temp step mash with Kölsch malt, but a single infusion — although not traditional — should work as well. Style nerds please take note: the maltster rates the color of this malt at 9 EBC. If you use 100% Kölsch malt for the grist of a Kölsch, you will be within spec according to Eric Warner's /Kölsch/ (7-14 EBC, or 3.5-7 SRM — p. 51), but definitely on the dark end of the BJCP guidelines. If you are brewing for a competition, you may want to incorporate some pils or wheat malt into the grain bill to dilute the color. We have limited amounts of sacks available so please call ahead to ensure they are available. 651-789-0189. *Sack Price: $77.00* *Rahr Premium Pilsner Malt 1.5 - 2° L* A high-quality, economical base malt from Rahr Malting in Shakopee, MN. Can make up to 100% of the grist for a very pale beer. Great for lagers. *Sack price: $42.99* Cellar Craft Wine Kit Expansion (Please note: Our wine kit prices are on average 10% cheaper in-store than online, for Winexpert kits too) We now stock a full line of Cellar Craft wine kits. Currently that is 29 more wine kits in addition to the 111 Winexpert wine kits we carry. We now boast one of the largest wine kit selections in the US! Check out information on these kits at http://www.cellarcraftwine.com/ or at our website at http://www.northernbrewer.com/cellarcraft.html More Wine Kits In addition to our other 140 wine kits we also added 8 more from Mosti Mondiale. These kits are all juice kits. All the qualities of fresh juice, but works with the simplicity of a kit. Contains 23 liters of juice, already balanced for nutrient and acid - no concentrate, no water to add. Check out information on these kits at http://www.northernbrewer.com/mosti-mondial.html and also at http://www.mostimondiale.com/ Please note that these kits are held at our warehouse and must be pre-ordered until further notice. *Yep, Even More Wine Kits... * Winexpert 2008 Limited Edition Wine Kits Now Available for Pre-order! Pre-orders can be made in-store or over the phone at 651-789-0189. January - New Zealand Merlot ($118.25) January - New Zealand Gewurtraminer ($112.75) February - South African Cabernet Sauvignon ($118.25) March - Alsatian Riesling ($112.75) April - Italian Dolcetto ($118.25) More information on kit particulars can be found at http://www.northernbrewer.com/sp-ltd-edition *Northern Brewer Posters * Northern Brewer has turned some of it's great catalog covers to 11" x 17" posters! 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