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Brewers of Indiana Guild Newsletter - April, 2008
Indiana Beer News May 19 - Tentative opening of BJ’s Restaurant Brewhouse, Greenwood Park Mall. May 23 - Grand opening of Brass Monkey Brewpub, Kokomo Monarch Beverage may move to Lawrence. article Three Floyds gets ink in Chicago. article
The Good Beer Show gets ink in the Pacific Brew News Blog on the occasion of their 150th show. Indiana Events The numbers at Joe Waizmann's AleFest Indy brought open-mouthed awe to many on both sides of the tables. Over 150 beers from the World Class Beverages warehouse were available for tasting and over 850 people were at the Murat Egyptian Room to sample all that beer. So many people, in fact, that many of the tables ran out of beer about 3 1/2 hours into the 4-hour festival. This was the first ticketed event in the area for some time. Ticketed, in that it wasn't unlimited sampling. Sample pours were a generous 4oz and each patron got 20 tickets. You can do the math. No one - not one person - used all 20 tickets. Notable extras to the expected festival fare were Dogfish Head 60-minute IPA served through a Randall (below top left), Darrell and Paul's Kolsch and RyePA homebrews at the Great Fermentations booth, and the public debut of Wabash Valley beers.
Following that, NUVO's Rita Kohn hosted a roundtable discussion about beer that will be featured in their upcoming April 9 issue. Look for quite a few stories and a pull-out section. While NUVO isn't distributed outside the Indy and Bloomington areas we'll try to latch on to a few extra copies for the rest of the state. The roundtable was a 2-hour discussion, moderated by Anita Johnson, that covered history, economics, workplace, homebrewing, and many more topics. NUVO should have a video and podcast available later.
Advertisers in the supplement include World Class Beverage, Indiana Microbrewers Festival, Brugge, Columbus Bar, Hops for Pops, Great Fermentations, Upland, Crown Liquors, Broad Ripple Brewpub, BadaBoomz, Hot Shotz, The Mousetrap, Fox and Hounds, Meridian Restaurant, and Bud Select. Thanks guys. Upcoming Events Please see http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/events.shtml for Indiana (and some surrounding area) events. Also lists bands playing at member brewpubs. On Tap Please see http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/ontap.html for the current tap lists of Indiana Breweries. Miscellaneous News (if you didn't read it at IndianaBeer.com already) New Holland is now brewing on their German 50bbl system and a new bottling line which will let them expand to 10,000bbl annual production. article The good news is "People who started drinking in middle age were 38 percent less likely to have a heart attack or other serious heart event than abstainers -- even if they were overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure or other heart risks" article On the other hand "Their study of 44,000 people showed that men who had five or more drinks on days they did drink were 30 percent more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than men who had just one drink a day -- regardless of what their average drinking intake was." Oops. The best way to put a lime in your beer is with the Lime Bomber. The Michigan Brewers Guild Board of Directors is now President Eric Briggeman, Rochester Mills; Secretary Steve Berthel, The Livery; Treasurer Mike Stevens, Founders; Plus Ron Jeffries, Jolly Pumpkin and Scott King, King Brewing.
New Glarus is building a 2nd brewery in New Glarus, WI. The 65,000 bbls they created last year just isn't enough. article Headline: "Beer drinkers? Bigger Brains!". "The ground-breaking study shows that the hippocampus . . . was more than 10 per cent smaller in those whose tipple was wine than in those who favoured beer." Ta Da. According to the CAMRA newspaper What's Brewing, the next release of Gale's Prize Old Ale may be the last. The latest batch was brewed at the Gales plant in Horndean which has since been closed by their new owners, Fullers. This batch was brewed in 2005 and was transferred to the Fuller's brewery in Chiswick where it has sat for 18 months on the wood - this is 6 more than in the past so it should be stronger in many ways. Oh, and they say the 9% ABV figure is calculated before aging and it might reach 12% with fermentation in the cask plus bottle fermentation. A guy in England has been buried with his favorite beer mug and they just found the bones. No doubt the beer was and Old Ale because he's been dead for 4,000 years. article Our nominee for hat of the week goes to James Fagan, a state legislator in New Jersey who wants to lower the BAC for DUI to .02%. article But he just opposed a ban on cell phones while driving. "Rep. James Fagan (D-Taunton) also opposed the measure, dismissing it as a “stupid” and “rotten” insurance company giveaway that would further hamstring cash-strapped motorists." article Oh, and by the way, James Fagan is a DUI attorney who "has represented thousands of accused drunken drivers". What a convenient way to maximize your volume of business.
Scientific study shows scientists who drink more beer publish fewer papers. article On the other hand, more beer means more IndianaBeer news articles. Some say beer also affects programmers. chart Do you know your booze? test Going to be in Belgium in September? Here's a 1-week beer tour priced at $2,225 including hotels, bus, and a lot of the food. Visits Cantillon, Drie Fonteinen, Silly, Roman, Bavik, Van Steenberge, Van Eecke, Halve Maan, Verhaeghe. Coming to Indiana: Brew Dog from Scotland: Physics Amber, Punk IPA, Hardcore IPA, Riptide Stout, Paradox Imperial Stout. O'Hara's 10th Anniversary Celebration Stout, Breckenridge Agave Wheat.
Ruling: Grand Rapids barbershop chain must stop giving free beer with a haircut - at least until they get a liquor license. article Bar in Atlanta has patron-poured taps at the table. But you can only pour yourself 180 ounces before a being checked and approved for more. article A 73 year old guy and his 55 year old girlfriend are in trouble for selling "apple pie" at a Shriner's party. Recipe: Grain alcohol, apple cider, brown sugar. $20 a jar. article complete with moon-Shriner pun There's a new Beer Judge Certification Program scoring method that went into effect on April 1st. Points are awarded for Volume, Envy, Recognition, Repetition, and Innovation.
Pabst goes retro? "Schlitz beer, once the world's top-selling beer brand, has gone back to its original formula." article - BA article Here's an article about Alabama's prohibition of homebrew (yep, currently). AB has created a new division named Michelob Brewing Company and has label approval for Michelob Brown, Red, Dunkel Weisse, and Bohemian Pilsner. Miller has announced Blonde ale, Amber Ale, and Wheat Beer in the Lite line coming in September. The Bass Museum in Burton-on-Trent (now owned by Coors) is set to close in June and 300 people marched through the street to protest. article News compiled by Bob Ostrander, Marketing Director/Webmaster. It's all considered accurate but then Bob has been known to have a drink or two while writing this so-called tome. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Brewers of Indiana Guild, in which case Bob will lose his job. Some coupon offers are for Associate Members only, non-transferable, and may be withdrawn due to unforeseen circumstances, acts of the gods, bankruptcy, or other capricious reasons. It's illegal in Indiana to offer any alcoholic beverage at discount through coupons, prizes, or the fact that the drinker is female. Sorry. Any resemblance of to any beer, living or dead, is purely a coincidence. |
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Ron Smith has been putting on
BJCP study groups for the last 3 years and new he's making a mini-class
called Master of Beer Appreciation (
The State Fair's Beer Categorization Event had almost a dozen
people bring brews to be tried by BJCP judges. There were some very distinct
beers that we'll not discuss in detail in order to not affect the actual
Brewers Cup judging. Suffice as to say it was no doubt helpful to the
brewers and it certainly was enjoyed by all.
Indiana Beer
gets ink at 
If you're in Detroit and see a 6ft glass of beer the police (and
Guinness) would like a phone call.
Belgian organic
beer? Dupont Foret (over there known as 
The UK raised
beer by 4p (8¢) per pint and will raise it 2% above inflation for each of
the next 4 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, is
being barred from pubs all over Britain.
Sam
Adams Recall: 12oz Sam Adams bottles from their Cincinnati brewery are being
recalled if they have N35 OI on the base of the bottle (picture at right)
due to the possibility of small pieces of glass in the beer.