February 2008
Hi All,
This month's WSB club meeting will take place at Jack MacKenzie's home on Friday, February 29. Contact Us for directions.
Jack wrote:
"I bought a bag of caramel vienne grain and about a half bag of aromatic malt. I also picked a few pounds barley flakes. Maybe we can come up with a recipe to use them and I can brew it up for the next meeting. A blind tasting sounds good. I have parking for six or seven without playing musical cars when people leave. And there is ample overflow parking in the church parking lot opposite my driveway entrance."
If you have some suggested recipe(s) lease contact him ASAHP.
Next months' meeting will be on March 20 at Ernie and Marti's above Silverdale to the west. Probably Alan will host in April (north of Poulsbo), on a weekend with a combo meeting/imperial stout tasting. Then May's meeting will be during Big Brew the first Saturday of the month.
An interesting article on blind tasting 25 imperial stouts:
http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-711.htm
Message: 9
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:02:55 -0800
From: "Chris Hummert"
Subject: [Brewcrew] Horray for the Boston Beer Company
To: "'Oregon Brew Crew Official Discussion List.'"
Jim Koch yesterday announced yesterday that they would be sharing their extra hops with small breweries. Here's the story:
Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth.
He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries. The company will sell the hops at its cost, which is considerably less than they would bring on the open (or "spot") market.
Koch revealed the offer to Brewers Association members Thursday in a forum for association members, telling them:
"For a couple of months now, we've all been facing the unprecedented hops shortage and it's affected all craft brewers in various ways. The impact is even worse on the small craft brewers - openings delayed, recipes changed, astronomical hops prices being paid and brewers who couldn't make beer.
"So we looked at our own hops supplies at Boston Beer and decided we could share some of our hops with other craft brewers who are struggling to get hops this year."
The brewery will sell 10,000 pounds of East Kent Goldings from Great Britain and 10,000 pounds of Tettnang Tettnanger from small farms in the Tettnang region in Germany. Both are "aroma hops," horribly under appreciated and the kind being dissed by brewers chasing alpha, but at the same time becoming crazily expensive.
Samuel Adams will limit the amount sold to any one brewery in order to assure as many as possible get hops.
"The purpose of doing this is to get some hops to the brewers who really need them. So if you don't really need them, please don't order them," Koch wrote. "And don't order them just because we're making them available at a price way below market. Order them because you need these hops to make your beer. We're not asking questions, so let your conscience be your guide."
This will be explained in the "Hop-Sharing Program" area at the Samuel Adams website, perhaps as early as this afternoon.
For any of those local brewers that might be intersted in this, here's the link to the Hop Sharing Program webpage: http://www.samueladams.com/promotions/HopSharing/Default.aspx
-Chris
"Scallop beer"
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=98725&in_page_id=34
Fish beer created by brewer
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Fish Beer
After a couple of post-work pints most of us start to sway just a little.
But now you can blame that 'all-at-sea' feeling on that fact that your beer has been made with shellfish.
Brewer Shepherd Neame has pushed the boat out to make Scallop Stout, a venture it claims is tasty, if unusual.
'There's a hint of smokiness and a slight taste of the sea but no fishiness. I can find no scientific reason for why it works, but it does,' said brewer Stewart Main.
The 3.7 per cent stout, which is creamy like Guinness, is made using traditional methods but with a handful of scallops thrown in for an hour.
Mr Main had the idea after visiting a scallop festival in Rye, East Sussex, which reminded him how the bi-valve is often washed down with a pint.
But it is not the only association the briny has with beer. Finings, a substance derived from fish swim bladders (a sac which helps them float), is used to make ale clearer. The Kent-based brewery also plans a crab and winkle ale.
Subject: FW: [Nwbnstaff] National IPA Championship and Contest
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:07:31 -0500
From: NWBN Hop Tips
To: jeanniem@keane.com
Come on you hopheads! You say you don’t know anything about basketball? Here’s the March Madness Championship for you, and you can win cool prizes too!
Jeannie
From: nwbnstaff-bounces@brewingnews.com [mailto:nwbnstaff-bounces@brewingnews.com] On Behalf Of Brewing News
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 15:15
To: nwbnstaff@brewingnews.com
Subject: [Nwbnstaff] National IPA Championship and Contest
Join us in celebrating March Madness with a single elimination bracket of 32 IPAs from across the nation going head to head in a battle to see who has biggest cone-jones! The National IPA Championship (NIPAC) starts with the preliminary round on February 23rd in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Enter your prediction of each round on-line at www.brewingnews.com/nipac to qualify for the 2008 NIPAC Winners Contest. All contestants that correctly predict the winners of every round and the final champion will be included in a NIPAC Contest Winners Drawing. Prizes include a full case of beer from the 2008 National IPA Champion, tee-shirts, posters and brewery merchandise.
Visit our on-line Locker Room for full descriptions of each of the IPA competitors. After confirming your age, you will then be able to review the beers and then proceed to our on-line contest . Want to know if your favorite IPAs advance to the next level? Follow their progress on-line using the link provided in the Locker Room. NIPAC winners are posted to the web site within 24 hours of each round.
Print a bracket sheet to put in your office, beer bar, homebrew shop...anywhere! Get hopped up - join the fun on your own, or in an office or bar pool!
Go to this link to see it all!
http://www.brewingnews.com/nipac
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:28:30 -0800
From: Michael Harper
Subject: [Brewcrew] 2007 Darwin Award Nominee
To: "Oregon Brew Crew Official Discussion List."
Hey, it's beer-related...
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-08.html
More on the same (moron pun intended):
http://darwinawards.com/slush/200708/pending20070820-073549.html
http://darwinawards.com/slush/200708/pending20070820-070811.html
http://darwinawards.com/cgi/search.pl?maxresults=40&keywords=Belgrade+Zo...
Real Strong Beer Festival (Starts This Friday)
February 22-28, Friday>
Collins Pub, Seattle
Seth always has an eclectic selection of wonderful strong brews on tap and usually a special menu to accompany them.
12th Annual Winter Beer Festival
February 23rd, 12-10 p.m.
Elysian Brewing Co.
1221 E Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98122
www.elysianbrewing.com
Every year the brewing team at Elysian picks their favorite winter beers to showcase during the end of Winter.
Rogue Night featuring Brewmaster John Maier
Monday, February 25th, 8 p.m.-
The Latona Pub
6423 Latona Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
www.3pubs.com
John will be bringing up a cask-conditioned firkin of Hazelnut Brown Nectar Ale. Chris Studach, the inspiration for Hazelnut Brown (and the guy featured on the bottle), will also be making an appearance. Chris will be telling stories about the early days at Rogue and about John Maier. There will also be some other special Rogue beers on tap. And of course, there will be prizes!
Beveridge Place Pub's Barleywine Bacchanal
From: "Beveridge Place Pub"
We’re starting a day earlier than usual so you can fully partake of the wondrous joy that is barleywine! Once again we’ll rotate through more than 30 different big, bold, brews (including vintages from the cellar) - from the super hoppy to the sublimely malty. Sixteen taps will be dedicated to these magic elixirs, so we’ll rotate new ones on every day. We’ll also have a rare selection of vintage bottled barleywines available from the U.S. and U.K. For the faint of heart, we’ll keep our eight “regulars” on tap, too.
DON’T FORGET OUR GREAT DAILY SPECIALS!
Micro Monday
$2.50 Micro Pints/$10 Micro Pitchers
FOOSBALL TOURNEY – starts at 9pm
Belgian & Free Pool Tuesday
$1.00 off all Belgian style Bottles
FREE POOL all day long
Wednesday – Quiz Night
Test your trivial knowledge – 8pm
Wine Bonus Features – try our lovely wines!
Thirsty Thursday
A Special Event Every Thursday
Firkins, Brewers Nights, Tastings, & More
FRIDAY FRIDAY
Hey, it’s Friday, that’s special enough!
WINE SATURDAY
A White & Red Wine Feature Every Saturday!
$1 off Feature Wine Glass Pours – All Day!
$3 off Feature Wine Bottles – All Day!
Anglo Saxon Sunday
$1 off all British & German Beer Bottles!
All day & night Happiest Hour prices for restaurant industry folks!
FREE POOL - 10pm – 2am
Cheers,
Gary, Terri, Jennifer, Rob , Lorraine , Dennis, Kate, and introducing: Devrim
March WABL event @ Pyramid
Tuesday, March 4
Last year Pyramid Brewery installed a new 15-barrel brewing system at their Seattle location. Since then Art Dixon, the Seattle head brewer has been busy working on product research and development, and brewing up fabulous beers. Art, who has been with Pyramid for 12 years, brews specialty beers a few times every month and his beers are served at all Pyramid alehouses in WA, OR and CA. On March 4th WABL members are invited to take a look at the new brewery and try some of Art’s specialty brews including Nitro Stout and White, and possibly one more. A brewery tour will be provided and WABL members will receive a discount (details TBA).
Tuesday, March 4th, 6:00-8:30pm
Pyramid Alehouse
1201 1st Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98134
www.pyramidbrew.com
6th Annual Hard Liver Barleywine Festival
Saturday, March 15+
~50 barley wines on tap, and plenty more in bottles
www.hardliver.com
The sixth annual Hard Liver Barleywine Fest will be Kicking off Saturday March 15th 2008, at Brouwer's Café in Seattle Washington.
Judging begins at 9am, and the doors open to the public at 11am.
The Festival runs all week, so if you didn't get to try all 50 in one day, come on back! No Cover
Sponsored by Bottleworks
Brewers! It's not to late to enter.
Contact us to participate.
Draft only please.
Brewmasters Dinner
Thursday, March 20th
Ray’s Café
6049 Seaview Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 782-0094
www.rays.com/
$45.00 per guest, tax and gratuity additional.
14th Annual Spring Beer & Wine Festival
Portland, OR
March 21-22, Fri-Sat
www.springbeerfest.com
Washington Cask Festival
Saturday, March 22 Two sessions, 12-4, 6-10
http://www.washingtonbeer.com/cbf.htm
This year’s Cask Festival will move back to more specious Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center on Saturday, March 22nd. As always WABL members will receive a $5 discount off advance tickets/admission. Plus you will receive special WABL tasting glass (everyone else will get a plastic cup!) and get to try a WABL Beer, a special beer brewed by a Washington brewery for each Washington Beer Commission festival that’s available exclusively to the WABL members. 2008 Cask Festival WABL Beer is Imperial Oatmeal Stout by Boundary Bay Brewery.
Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion
305 Harrison St. Seattle, WA 98109
Session 1: 12-4pm
Session 2: 6-10pm
$35 advance/$40 at the door.
Separate tickets required for each session.
$5 WABL discount
Issaquah Brewhouse Beer Dinner
Tuesday, March 25th
Issaquah Brewhouse
35 Sunset Way
Issaquah, WA 98027
(425) 557-1911
www.rogue.com
Okanagan Fest-of-Ale
April 4-5, Penticton, BC
http://www.fest-of-ale.bc.ca/index2.html
Hops and Props
April 5, Seattle, WA
www.museumofflight.org
http://www.museumofflight.org/display.asp?Page=hopsandprops
The 3rd Annual Parkway Tavern Barleywine Festival
Saturday, April 12th, 2 p.m.-2 a.m.
The Parkway Tavern
313 North I St.
Tacoma, WA 98403
(253) 383-8748
A twelve hour celebration of barleywine featuring 25 aged barleywines from local and regional breweries. They will be also grilling whole pigs and prime rib to help soak up the beer. Lots of prizes, giveaways, and drinking!
25th Annual San Francisco International Beer Festival
April 26, San Fran
www.sfbeerfest.com
2nd Annual Women's Brewfest
April 26, Sacramento, CA
Rubicon Brewing Co.
darcyquinn@rubiconbrewing.com
12th Annual Boonville Beer Festival
May 10, Boonville, CA
www.avbc.com
4th Annual Homebrew Fair
June 21, Kent, WA
Larry's Brewing Supply
http://www.homebrewfair.com/
North American Organic Brewers Festival
June 27-29, Portland, OR
abe@brewingnews.com
Check out this page for tons of AHA/BA events:
http://beertown.org/events/index.html
National Homebrew Competition
April 2008
http://beertown.org/events/nhc/
Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America®
April 16-19, 2008 in San Diego, California USA
http://beertown.org/events/cbc/
2008 World Beer Cup® Gala Awards Dinner
April, 19 2008 in San Diego, California USA
http://beertown.org/events/wbc/
National Homebrew Day (Big Brew)
May 3, 2008
http://beertown.org/events/bigbrew/index.html
American Craft Beer Week
May 12-18, 2008
http://beertown.org/events/acbw/index.html
SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience
May 16-17, 2008 in Washington, DC USA
http://www.beertown.org/events/savor/
National Homebrewers Conference®
June 19-21, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio USA
http://beertown.org/events/hbc/
Mead Day
August 2, 2008
http://beertown.org/events/meadday/index.html
...and more.
"There's a tear in my beer"
Words and Music by Hank Williams
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There's a tear in my beer'cause I'm cryin' for you,
A7
dear you are on my lonely mind.Into these last nine beers
I have shed a million tears.
D D7
You are on my lonely mind
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I'm gonna keep on sittin' here
D
until I'm petriified.
E7 A7
And then maybe these tearswill leave my eyes.
D
There's a tear in my beer
'cause I'm crying' for you, dear
E7 A7 D Fdim A7
You are on my lonely mind.2:
A7 D
Last night I walked the floorand the night before
A7
You are on my lonely mind.It seems my life is through
and I'm so doggone blue
D D7
You are on my lonely mind.
G
I'm gonna keep on sittin' here
D
till I can't move a toe
E7 A7
and then maybe my heartwon't hurt me so.
D
There's a tear in my beer
'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear.
E7 A7 D-----------
You are on my lonely mind.
“What Made Milwaukee Famous Made A Loser Out Of Me”
as performed by Jerry Lee Lewis
songwriter: Glenn Sutton
Its late and she's waiting and I know I should go home
But every time I start to leave they play another song
Then someone buys another round and wherever drinks are free
What's made Milwaukee famous has made a fool out of me
Baby's begged me not to go so many times before
She says love and happiness can't live behind those swinging doors
Nows she's gone and I'm to blame too late I finally see
What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me
Babys begged me not to go so many times before
She says love and happiness just can't live behind those swinging doors
Nows she's gone and I'm to blame to late I finally see
What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me
What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me
BEER!
by Psychostick
I like beer 'cuz it is good
I drink beer because I should
If there was a song to sing
I sing it and beer you bring
I drink beer when I am sad
'Cuz the beer it makes me glad
Now there's nothing left to say
So let's go drink beer
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
...and stuff!
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
Let's go drink some BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
When it's warm it tastes real crappy
But cold beer will make me happy
When I throw up on the floor
I can go and drink some more
They say beer will make me dumb
It are go good with pizza
Now that we have drunk some beer
Let's go drive a car
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
....and stuff!
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
Beer is good!
Let's go drink some BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
BEER!
(BEER!)
OH!
Uh dude.. I think you've had enough
...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Let's go drink some beer!
I am drunk, drunk is me, I am drunk, wheee!
I am drunk, drunk is me, I am drunk wheee!
I am drunk, drunk is me, I am... (belch)
