Meeting Info

Once again we sampled a ridiculous number of barleywines (and a few other beers) at the annual Barleywine Meeting, which was held on Sunday, January 17th.  Here is a nearly complete list of what we tried. If anyone who was there remembers anything else, let us know:

01. '94 Pyramid 10th Anniv.
02. '99? Pyramid 5,000 Year Ale
03. '99 Bridgeport Old Knucklehead (Alfa Zinkus)
04. '07 Aldergrove Auld Persnickety
05. '93 Rogue Old Crustacean
06. '97 Rogue Old Crustacean
07. '98 Rogue Old Crustacean
08. '99 Rogue Old Crustacean
09. '00 Rogue Old Crustacean
10. '01 Whitbread Gold Label
11. '02 Rogue Old Crustacean
12. '03 Rogue Old Crustacean
13. '04 Rogue Old Crustacean
14. Eggenberg Urbock 23 (nearly 10 years old)
15. Eggenberg Dunkel Eisbock (6-8 years old)
16. Alan Moum's 14% (circa '95) Barleywine
17. Mark Hood's '94 Barleywine
18. Brad Ginn's '07 I.H.A.D. Barleywine
19. Matt Riggs' Biere de Garde (bottled 10/23/09)
20. '78 Rainier Centennial Release
21. Todd Pulalie's '09
22. '10 Widmer W'10
23. John Altman's Big Balls Billy
24. '08 Ice Harbor
25. '10 Rainier Ale
26. '08 or '09?? Elysian Cyclops
27. '99 Hair of the Dog Fred #23
28. '00? Hair of the Dog Fred From the Wood #2
29. WSBBBBW WSB collaborative barrel BW '07?
30. WSBBBIS WSB collaborative barrel imperial stout '06?
31. '09 Dick's
32. '95 Samuel Adams Triple Bock
33. '08 Alaskan Barleywine
34. '09 Moylan's Old Blarney
35. '07 Firestone Walker 11th Anniversary
36. '99 Heads Up Millenium
37. '05 Midnight Sun Arctic Devil
38. '99 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
39. '05 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
40. Steve Moga's Old Ale
41. '06 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
42. '90 Eldridge & Pope Thomas Hardy's Ale
43. '09? Southern Tier Backburner
44. '90 Eldridge & Pope Thomas Hardy's Ale (some confusion here on the list, as we only had one bottle)
45. '92 Eldridge & Pope Thomas Hardy's Ale
46. '93 Eldridge & Pope Thomas Hardy's Ale
47. '94 Eldridge & Pope Thomas Hardy's Ale
48. '04 O'Hanlon's Thomas Hardy's Ale
49. '98 Silver City Old Scrooge
50. '99 Silver City Old Scrooge
51. '09 Silver City Old Scrooge
52. '08 Big Sky Old Blue Hair (barrel aged)
53. '06 Rogue Old Crustacean
54. '08 Rogue Old Crustacean
55. '07 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
56. '09 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
57. '09 Avery Hog Heaven
58. '07 Avery Collaboration Not Litigation
59. '01 Hale's Rudyard's Rare
60. '05 Hale's Rudyard's Rare
61. '07 Hale's Rudyard's Rare
62. '09? Deschutes Mirror Mirror

Hi All,
Our meeting for May takes place on Saturday, May 2, at the Wyatts' about 3 miles north of Poulsbo. I'm assuming they'll let us set up for brewing as early as 9AM since the international Big Toast takes place at 10AM. We'll let you know if otherwise in our reminder mailing next week.

Don will be firing up the grill(s) so bring whatever you'd like to grill, snacks, and easy to serve potluck dishes.

This is also Big Brew 2009, see details below. If you're interested in checking out fellow brewers' systems, techniques, and ingredients, or if you just want to hang with fellow brewers, or if you just can't get enough of the smell of boiling hops and malt, don't miss this event.

Contact Us for directions.

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Since our meeting is so early in May we're considering arranging a Seattle and/or Tacoma area pub crawl(s) later in May, perhaps in association with some Seattle Beer Week events. Come to Big Brew and express your interests.

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National Homebrew Day/Big Brew details
http://beertown.org/events/bigbrew/

2009 Big Brew Recipes
This year's Big Brew recipes are the tale of two AHA members whose homebrew recipes have gone on to be brewed by craft breweries.

Dave Levonian's award-winning Saison recipes have been brewed by Ballast Point Brewery for the 2008 Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am Competition, and by the Lost Abbey Brewery as one of the commemorative beers for the 2009 National Homebrewers Conference this June in Oakland, CA.

Jim Denier is an award-winning homebrewer who brought his Dark Mild recipe with him when he started brewing at Dry Dock Brewing Co. in Aurora, CO. The SS Minnow Mild Ale is a favorite at the brewery, and was a favorite with the 2008 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) judges too; it was the silver medal beer in the Session Beer category!

We hope you enjoy brewing this year’s Big Brew recipes! If you have any left, bring it with you to the National Homebrewers Conference in Oakland, CA this June to share!

BIG BREW FACTS-
2008 More than 10,500 gallons were brewed by almost 4000 participants at 242 sites on six continents worldwide. Sites were registered in 42 states in the US, as well as in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Israel, Kenya, The Netherlands, Russia, and Uryguay.
2007 Over 9000 gallons of homebrew brewed by more than 4000 participants at 242 sites on four continents worldwide. There were sites in 42 states, as well as Israel, Australia, Argentina, and Russia.
2005 7,347 gallons of homebrew brewed worldwide at 210 Big Brew sites by 2,956 participants.
2003 3,706 gallons of homebrew were produced at 157 Big Brew sites by 1,405 participants worldwide.
2001 5,185 gallons of beer were brewed at 182 brewing sites by 1,864 participants worldwide.

Hi All,
This Saturday, March 14, at the Moum's north of Poulsbo we'll have our monthly WSB meeting, combined or surrounded by an imperial stout tasting. The imperial stout tasting starts at noon and the club meeting officially begins at 4, feel free to show up whenever you can and stay as long as you like (or until you're kicked out). Bring whatever homebrews you want to show off, and if you don't have any try to bring imperial stout/porter or their equivalents. There will be some pizza or calzones or some such, but feel free to bring any other snacks or dishes to contribute to the alcohol buffering.

Contact Us for directions.

We'll have some discussion and brainstorming about this year's KCF homebrew competition at 4PM.

Here's a reminder from Alan about the sherry tasting and the March meeting:

Hi All,
My PC is out of commission at the moment so I'm sending our reminder email first this time and the regular newsletter next week when I hope to have everything up and running again.

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On this Saturday, March 7, there's a sherry tasting/tapas event at the Moum's north of Poulsbo from noon-whenever. If you have any apps or potluck dish you think will go well with sherry please bring them along. Sherry varies from bone dry to syrupy sweet. I have a bunch of glassware but you might want to consider bringing 2-3 of your favorite smaller sampling glasses for side by side comparisons.

Contact Us for directions to Alan's.

I meant to send or print out some basic info about sherry but due to the PC problems and work requirements you might want to take a look online for yourself. I hope to have a few printouts there on Saturday.

Here's the sherry inventory so far:
Lustau Papirusa Light Manzanilla - 375ml
Sanlucarde Barrameda La Guita Manzanilla - 375ml
Bodegas Hidalgo La Gitana Manzanilla - 375ml?
Alvear Fino en Rama 2002 Montilla-Moriles - 375ml

Tio Pepe Palomino Fino Muy Seco -375ml
Lustau Light Fino Jarana - 375ml
Real Tesoro Pale Dry Sherry - 750ml

Real Tesoro Amonitllado Sherry - 750ml
Lustau Dry Amontillado Los Arcos - 375ml?
Barbadillo Amontillado Medium Dry - 750ml
Barbadillo Amontillado Medium - 750ml

Lustau Palo Cortado Peninsula - 750ml

Williams & Humbert Dry Sack

Hartley & Gibson's Oloroso
Bodegas Hidalgo Faraon Oloroso - 500ml

Manfred Vierthaler American Cream Sherry - 750ml
Real Tesoro Cream Sherry - 750ml
Harveys Bristol Cream - 750ml
Barbadillo Muscatel Sherry - 750ml
Pedro Romero Moscatel -750ml
Lustau DeLuxe Cream Capataz Andrés - 375ml
Alvear's Cream Montilla - 750ml
Lustau East India Solera - 375ml
Lustau PX Pedro Ximenez - 375ml?
Bodegas Dios Baco Pedro Ximenez Oxford 1.970 - 500ml
Bodegas Toro Albala Don P.X. La Noria 2003 PX - 375ml
Osborne Pedro Ximenez 1827 - 750ml
Alvear PX de aùada 2003 - 375ml
Alvear Solera 1927 Pedro Ximenez - 375ml

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Saturday, March 14, 12-?, same location, WSB mtg/imperial stout tasting. Bring whatever homebrews you want to show off, and if you don't have any try to bring imperial stout/porter or their equivalents. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get out an inventory of imp. stouts prior to this event. I'll try.

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At our latest meeting John Altman was voted president, Mark Hood Veep, Vic Keranen Treasurer, and Alan Moum and Brad Ginn still maintain their (apparently lifetime) positions as data guys. If you have great ideas for the club and an interest in any of these positions please let us know and nonviolent coups may begin.

Skal, Alan

The February meeting of the West Sound Brewers will be held on Saturday, February 21, at Marti and Ernie Gwaltney's house beginning at 4 pm. They live just west of Silverdale. Contact Us for directions to the meeting.

At first Marti thought about hoppy beers as the theme, then she sent this, "Instead of the hoppy beer theme, I thought about Anniversary/Birthday beers (my birthday is the 26th) - beers like the Bottleworks Anniversary beers, Firestone, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Anniversary beer or homebrews that are brewed in honor of friends or family members. Too difficult? Just stay with the hoppy beer theme?" So bring those if you have 'em, if not, bring hoppy brews as backup.

We still haven't gotten around to electing our officers for 2009. We WILL do that this time.

For more meeting details, early info on March's meeting, upcoming beer events throughout the region, and as always, lyrics to beer-related songs, check out the February Newsletter.

We had a great time at the barleywine meeting last Sunday, and sampled a lot of great beers. We had freakish weather for January, with sunshine and a high of nearly 60°F, so most of the meeting was held outdoors. Alan shucked a million oysters and Vic made delicious oyster po'boys (and equally delicious shrimp po'boys, too). There was a lot of other food there as well, all of which was excellent.

Here's the list of beers that were sampled throughout the day (not necessarily in order):

1. Maritime Pacific Yo Ho Ho (yr?)
2. '98 Rogue Old Crustacean
3. '00 Anchor Our Special Ale
4. 8-10 yr. old Rochefort 10
5. '07 Mad River John Barleycorn
6. '07 Butte Creek Train Wreck BW
7. LaChouffe (yr?)
8. '97 Apis Póltorak Jadwiga
9. '08 Midnight Sun Arctic Devil
10. '06 Big Balls Billy (John Altman's homebrewed Belgiany barley wine)
11. '06 Port Townsend BW
12. '00 Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus
13. '97 Samuel Adams Triple Bock
14. Chimay Bleu (yr?)
15. '08 Baron Seven Schwabians Eisbock
16. '08 Anchor Old Foghorn
17. '06 Old Man BW (John Altman's homebrewed BW)
18. '07 Brad's I.H.A.D. BW (brewed on MLK Day, 2007)
19. '03 Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
20. '00 J.W. Lees Harvest Ale (from top shelf, non-refrigerated, lots of UV)
21. '00 J.W. Lees Harvest Ale (from case bought in 2000)
22. '08 Avery Jubilation
23. '08 Alaskan Brewing Barley Wine
24. '05 Hood Canal Breidablik BW
25. 7-8 yr. old Green King Olde Suffolk
26. '07 Roots Organic Epic Ale
27. '04 AleSmith Old Numbskull
28. 6-7 yr. old Anchor Old Foghorn
29. '08 Beer Valley BW
30. '05 Michelob Celebrate
31. '04 Scuttlebutt Old No. 1
32. '08 Big Time Old Sol Wheatwine
33. '07 Big Time Old Sol Wheatwine
34. '06 Big Time Old Sol Wheatwine
35. '05 Big Time Old Sol Wheatwine
36. '00 Gouden Carolus Grand Cru of the Emperor
37. '04 Gouden Carolus Grand Cru of the Emperor
38. Vic Sickler's Blackberry cordial
39. Vic Sickler's Pear cordial (with elderflower)
40. Vic Sickler's Raspberry cordial
41. Hair of the Dog Adam #20
42. '00-'01 Hair of the Dog Fred From the Wood
43. '07 WSB Collaborative Bourbon Barrel BW straight
44. '07 WSB Collaborative Bourbon Barrel BW dry hopped
45. '06 Full Sail Old Boardhead
46. '07 Full Sail Old Boardhead
47. '08 Pike Entire Imperial Stout
48. '96 Hurlimann's Samichlaus
49. '03 Boundary Bay Old Bounder
50. Steve Shaw's #54 -bottle 1 ('95?)
51. Steve Shaw's #54 -bottle 2 ('95?)
52. Hair of the Dog Fred #27
53. '98 Bob Rau's BW from 5/98
54. '01 Fish Tale Leviathan
55. '08 Green Flash BW

Hi All,
This month's WSB meeting will be held on Sunday, January 18, the middle of MLK weekend, and this is the annual barley wine meeting at Mary Earl's place between Poulsbo and Silverdale. Start time is noon, last call is 5PM, everybody out by 7. Plan on arranging a designated driver or plan on hanging around a couple hours after your last beer before driving home.

Again, if global warming causes us to cancel this meeting too we'll let you know ASAP.

Bring any barley wines or strong ale/old ale bw facsimiles that you'd like to show off. Please RSVP to Mary at:
ggrapex@yahoo.com

Also, feel free to bring some putluck type dishes, reheating only or very minor prep/cleanup necessary would be best. Vic might have some suggestions.

Bring several tasting glasses for yourself. It's always fun to have 3-5 bws in front of you for comparison. Mary has a bunch of old barley wines at her house plus Vic, Alan, and Craig plan to bring some selections.

Contact Us for more details and directions to the meeting.

Hi All,
It looks like this month's meeting is mostly canceled. If you're in walking, sledding, or kayaking distance from the Qualls you're still welcome to swing by at the appointed time. We'll move our elections and beer exchange to our January barley wine meeting at Mary's home.

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Note from Dave Quall:
My hill is covered with snow. I don't think I will be going anywhere until conditions improve a bit. 4 wheel dr would be needed to climb the hill....going down the hill is not for the faint of heart (steep w/curves & no guardrails).

Calling the meeting off for weather would be fine with me. Probably not a bad idea liability wise.

Keeping it open for anyone brave/foolish souls who want to come is good with me as well.

And it's possible, though unlikely, conditions may be acceptable tomorrow.

Hows that for waffling......uh I mean being accommodating.

Dave

Merry Christmas Everyone,
The Qualls are hosting this month's meeting on Friday, Dec. 19, 6ish. They live just SE of Illahee State Park. Next year's officers will be elected at this meeting. Consider running for office and consider who you would like to nominate for office. Our lifelong treasurer Don Wyatt and secretary Alan Moum wouldn't mind if somebody is interested in replacing them (keep trying Matt). Other than that we have a president and VP. If you have some good ideas or dreams for the direction of the club please offer them up.

Our traditional Christmas beer exchange will happen at this meeting too. Bring a bottle take a bottle. Wrap them so we can't guess what they are before we take them home.

If you don't have homebrew to bring Dave suggested bringing tripels, and any holiday seasonals would be apt.

Contact us for directions and to get added to the mailing list if you aren't already on it.