*NORTHERN BREWER RETAIL NEWSLETTER* JULY 2009 In this issue: - New Website - Place an order, get 5% off - New Limited Edition Beer Kits - Ames Farm Artisanal Honey - Chocolate Raspberry Port - Friend us on Facebook! - National Homebrew Conference 2009 & 2010 *NEW WEBSITE! KICK THE TIRES AND GET 5% OFF YOUR ORDER* Come check out the Beta version of the new Northern Brewer website! Our goal is to offer our customers a better experience with improved navigation and features like wishlists and product reviews! Please help us test drive ithere. <http://beta.northernbrewer.com/> To say thanks for helping test drive the Beta site, we're giving a 5% discount for all orders placed through http://beta.northernbrewer.com. *Use coupon code "BETA" when submitting your order.* Offer ends at midnight on Tuesday, July 7. Please read important caveats and details at http://beta.northernbrewer.com/brewing/beta-test-info *JULY-SEPTEMBER NORTHERN BREWER LIMITED EDITION BEER KITS* The new Wyeast Private Collection yeast strains are scheduled for delivery to our warehouse on July 1 or 2, and the next round of NB Limited Edition beer kits is here as well! They're only available through September 2009, and when they're gone they're gone! This round is especially special for a couple reasons - there's a bonus fourth kit this time, and two of the recipes were formulated by Mr. Denny Conn (thanks, Denny!). - *Petite Saison d'Ete* - with a modest gravity, bracing hoppiness, and loads of character from the 3711 French Saison strain, this table saison is a summer thirst-quencher - *The Golden Dragon* - a Belgian Strong Dark ale of considerable stature designed by NB's Heyward Gualandi and fermented with the new 3739 Flanders Golden Ale strain - brew it now for the holidays! - *Waldo Lake Amber* - from Denny Conn, this above-average American Amber Ale has a wonderful malt-hop interplay and uses the 1450 Denny's Favorite 50 yeast. - *Wry Smile Rye IPA* - available as an all-grain kit only, this highly popular Denny Conn recipe is a souped-up American IPA brewed with rye malt and the 1450 Denny's Favorite 50 yeast Get 'em while they're hot at http://beta.northernbrewer.com/brewing/limited-edition-beer-kits *AMES FARM ARTISANAL HONEY - NORTHERN BREWER EXCLUSIVE* Ames Farm of Watertown, MN produces nationally-recognized artisanal honey in small batches with utmost attention to quality and craft. Without a centralized area of production, Ames uses a unique "virtual apiary:" 300 hives and a network of orchards and beeyards throughout central and southern Minnesota, combined with old-world apiary techniques almost unheard of in North America. Now Ames Farm has teamed with Northern Brewer to make their truly exceptional honey available to meadmakers everywhere! In keeping with the true nature of honey as a constantly evolving, "vintage" agricultural product, the floral sources and composition of Ames Farm honey will change with the season and years, and are dependent on variables like hive placement and weather - each batch of mead made with this honey will be that much more unique, as no two batches will turn out quite the same. Order some for National Mead Day (August 1, 2009) and check it out for yourself at http://beta.northernbrewer.com/brewing/ames-farm-honey *CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY PORT* For a limited time, and by pre-order only, you can make and enjoy a wonderfully delicious desert wine: Chocolate Raspberry Port, a multiple gold medal winner at the 2008 and 2009 WineMaker Amateur Wine Competitions. The pre-order deadline is August 3rd, 2009 and kits will arrive mid-September 2009. The Chocolate Raspberry Port will come complete with everything needed to produce 11.5 liters of liquid decadence. Contains 11.5 liters of single-strength juice and concentrate, corn sugar, and 30 peel and stick bottle labels. Bursting with rich, intense flavors and aromas, this wine has a traditional Port character of warm, rounded cherry and plum, supported by a racy zing of bright raspberry, perfumed and gently tart, giving way to luscious liquid chocolate - beguiling with dark, bittersweet aromas of coffee and vanilla. Toasty hints of oak guide the way to a long, rich finish. Excellent within three months, this wine will age gorgeously‚ if you can keep any that long! In-store price of $94.99. *NB ON FACEBOOK* Friend us on Facebook and keep up to date on news, deals, products, and important info like which beers are on tap at Northern Brewer World Headquarters from week to week! Come say hi at http://www.facebook.com/northern.brewer *NATIONAL HOMEBREW CONFERENCE 2009 & 2010* Northern Brewer has been a proud sponsor of the National Homebrew Conference and the Hospitality Suite for many years. Oakland was a blast with great seminars and speakers, not to mention lots of great homebrew. A big congratulations goes out to our local club the Saint Paul Home Brewers Club for taking the Club of the Year for a third year in a row. Also former Northern Brewer employee and SPHBC member Thomas Eibner grabbed the Meadmaker of the Year, keeping that title in Minnesota hands for the last 4 years. Past winners were Steve Piatz, Steve Fletty, and Curt Stock. More great news: The Twin Cities have been named as the 2010 National Homebrew Conference location. It's being tentatively scheduled from June 17th-19th, 2010 at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington. Contact your local homebrew clubs and ask how you can help and participate. Let's show the nation what Minnesota has to offer for homebrewers and beer lovers alike.