May 2000

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May 2000

#1 Post by Greenblood » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:41 am

Minutes of the April Meeting

Cleanup Crew: Pete and Ken

Members in Attendance: Sherry, Harley, Doug, Kelvin, Andrew, Derek, Jennifer, Xan, Rob, Ken, Ellen, Joe, Jeff, Pete, Rich, Mike Porter, Dwight, and Dale.

Treasurer's Report: "You want an exact number?" (OK, who elected this guy? - just kidding Doug) Current balance is around $500.

Old Business
Yeast Bank: Champagne and Sweet Mead yeast strains are now available through the yeast bank.

BrewFest Committee: Tickets for 10-20 year olds $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Adult tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Free entry with five-gallon beer donation. Rob will conduct the on-site brew demonstration again this year with the club buying ingredients. Derek will tend bar again this year. Food committee (Jennifer Garrison and Jeff Jensen) will meet soon to wrap up details on side dishes and snacks. Fifth annual beer glasses featuring new art, courtesy of Barry, will be ready in time for the Brew Fest.

Library Books: New book on mead making has arrived!

St. Patrick's Day Party: to be held March 18th from 5:30PM. Mead seminar presented by Jackie Rager will kick off the celebration. Club will provide the corned beef, cabbage, and vegetables. Postcard to remind members will be sent out ASAP.

Big Brew 2000: is scheduled for May 6th at Joe Yoder's house (2322 Vermont). At the time Joe signed up, we were the only site in Kansas (only 82 sites nationwide)! Joe will send out recipe/reminder cards. Synchronized toast is at noon, please bring snacks, food to grill, and homebrew.

LBG Apparel: Shirts, in a variety of styles, caps, and other apparel are available with the LBG logo, see Xan for the catalog or to place your order.

New Business
Meeting Location: We have had problems the last few months in scheduling space and equipment at the ECM. For the next couple of months, we will try a "reminder call" to confirm our reservation. Also, we will try to reserve the basement for the summer meetings.

Seminar: RIMS (Re-circulating Infusion Mash System) presentation by Mike Porter of the Kansas City Bier Meisters. Mike brought his brewery with him from Kansas City and all I can say is if you weren't there, you missed an excellent seminar. This was a great opportunity to see what brewing can be! Check out the photos in the gallery.

Beer Contributors:
Barry: Pale Ale
Derek and Jennifer: Ball Bustin' Brown, Bavarian, & Red Hook IPA
Dwight: Big Bertha Pale Ale
Joe: Big Brew Pale Ale, Irish Ale, & Old Peculiar
Pete: Bock
Dale: Belgium White
Rob: Honey Apricot Ale & Rye
Rich: Apricot Wine
Ken: Wild Goose IPA

Is it my imagination or does this list get longer every month? Thanks a lot for sharing your homebrew!

Meeting Adjourned.


Commercial Tasting: American Brown Ales

Pony Express Nut Brown Ale - Kansas City (10 votes-Winner!)

"Smells like a locker room" - Sherry
"uck" - Rob
"Malty nose, chocolate notes, so far the best American Brown Ale I've had" - Jeff

Bell's Best Brown - Michigan (0 votes)

"Sour - thinner, fizzier, and hoppier than #1" - Barry
"Drinking beer, don't like it much, too thin" - Joe
"Mas delicioso" - Sherry
"Slightly roasty" - Andrew

Goose Island Hex Nut Brown - Chicago (2 votes)

"That's really crisp" - Sherry
"What is that taste?" - Ellen
"Nutty like the first one, not sour like the second one, salmonella?" - Barry
"To me it's bland" - Doug
"It's like sugary" - Ellen
"Brown sugar" - Doug
"Brown sugar water" - Ellen

Avery Ellie's Brown Ale - Boulder, Colorado (0 votes)

"Dusty" - Jeff
"Metallic" - Joe
"Musty" - Derek
"Four should be flushed" - Andrew

Xanthippe Stevens
Secretary


Congrats!
Congratulations go out to Barry Fitzgerald and Chuck Epp!

The Kansas Board of Regents announced that Barry will be on sabbatical leave for the Fall 2000 semester. Barry, associate profressor of design, will write, design, and illustrate a children's book and create moving digital images in the book and document it onto CD-ROM.

The Board of Regents also annouced that Chuck Epp has been promoted to Associate Professor in Public Adminstration beginning with the 2000-2001 academic year.

OREAD, Vol. 24, No. 15 (April 28, 2000) pages 4-5.


Warning Labels
WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to smash your head in.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, more attractive, and smarter than some really, really big guy named Franz.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe you are invisible.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause a flux in the time-space continuum, whereby small (and sometimes large) gaps of time may seem to literally disappear.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may actually cause pregnancy.

submittted by Ken Godwin


Beer Goddess

The first definitive beer goddess was Ninkasi, which literally means "the lady who fills the mouth." Like most Sumerian gods and goddesses, Ninkasi had many manifestations and roles. The literature dating from 5,000 years ago portrays this goddess as the giver and protector of beer and brewing. Ninkasi preceded a long line of female deities that would establish beyond question the femininity of beer. In 1990, Fritz Maytag of Anchor Brewing Co. became the first United States brewer to try to replicate the beers of Sumerian women and called his sample "Ninkasi." He brewed this Ninkasi sample again in 1993 for the Book and Cook event.

from the Encyclopedia of Beer, Christine P. Rhodes


Real Beer, World Beer Tour Merge
APR 27, 2000 - Real Beer, Inc. of San Francisco and WorldBeerTour.com of Redmond, Washington, the largest Internet-based beer club, have announced plans to merge operations. The new company, to be named RealBeer.com L.L.C., is designed to provide the ultimate beer experience on the Internet, establishing a community of impassioned beer lovers and locating and arranging the delivery of some of the rarest beers in the world.

"Beyond e-commerce logistics, the biggest challenge Internet retail sites face is member acquisition," said Pat Hagerman, President of Real Beer, Inc. "With 350,000 loyal users and a growing number of new users visiting the site each month, Real Beer has tackled that challenge. The World Beer Tour commitment to an incredible consumer experience and sophisticated approach to the regulatory and cost issues of Internet beer delivery brings a new depth to the beer experience."

Mark Silva, CEO of Real Beer, Inc., added, "This merger extends our commitment to delivering an intimate, branded consumer experience in our vertical portal while also realizing significant high-margin revenue increases by bringing consumers and beer together."

"It's really a situation of one plus one equals three," said Robert Imeson, President of WorldBeerTour.com. "Real Beer's audience and content combine with WorldBeerTour.com's exclusive import/distribution relationships to ensure that we provide the beer consumer the ultimate beer experience."

Launched six months ago after nearly a year of research & development, WBT distinguishes itself from other clubs by focusing on the developing Internet community to build its brand. It has exclusive contracts with the world's top beer expert, Michael Jackson, and with some of the world's best breweries.

Jackson selects the beers and provides customers with tasting notes as well as brewery history. WorldBeerTour.com creates a "gourmet beer community" through member services such as on-line chats, virtual tastings and an online area for members to write and view thoughts on each beer style. "Real Beer's vision of community works perfectly with our company goals," said Imeson. "And their global presence sets up the infrastructure for international expansion."

WorldBeerTour.com works within the complex infrastructure required to ship alcohol legally to consumers throughout the United States.


Beer May Be Better for Heart Than Wine

LONDON (Reuters) - Beer could be better for your heart than red wine or spirits, scientists said on Friday.

Scientists have long known that red wine helped to protect against heart disease. Now Dutch researchers believe beer - taken in moderation - may be of benefit too.

For beer contains vitamin B6 which prevents the build-up in the body of a chemical called homocysteine, which is thought to be linked to an increase in the risk of heart disease.

Dr Henk Hendriks and colleagues from the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute studied 111 healthy men who each drank beer, red wine, spirits and water with their dinner for three weeks.

The researchers discovered that homocysteine levels did not increase after beer consumption but rose after the men drank wine and spirits.

The researchers, whose findings were published in the Lancet medical magazine on Friday, found that beer drinkers had a 30% increase of vitamin B6 in their blood plasma.

Hendriks told BBC Radio "Moderate alcohol consumption affects many processes in the body, one of which is the significant increase in HDL cholesterol - the good cholesterol."

But he stressed "One should not drink alcohol to become healthy."

submitted by Sherry Holub


Discount Days at Bacchus & Barleycorn
LBG members receive a 10% discount from Bacchus & Barleycorn, May 8-13. Please show membership card or bring newsletter. Bacchus & Barleycorn is located at 6633 Nieman Rd. in Shawnee (913-962-2501).

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