Homebrewing

Washington Brewers Festival

June 14, 2008 – 8:13 pm

We came out to the Washington Brewers Festival today (Saturday 6/14/2008) to hear the results of the Puget Sound Pro-Am Competition and to sample some excellent beer. When Mark gets a chance he is going to update the page to add the Brewers selections as well as put up the uncoded competition results.

I had to wait to announce the comp results until the breweries made their selections but I’m happy to announce that my Munich Helles received first in category and Best of Show. My American Barleywine received first in category and honorable mention in BOS round. My Smoked Porter received third in category.

For the Pro-Am part my Munich Helles will be brewed by Diamond Knot and entered into the 2008 GABF Pro-Am. Also my American Barleywine will be brewed by Elliot Bay Brewery and entered into the 2009 GABF Pro-Am. I’m very excited to go out and work with the brewers.

With so many beers available I wasn’t able to sample everything I wanted to but there were some excellent beers that I tried. The Diamond Knot cask smoked porter was excellent as well as their Industrial IPA. I was also very impressed with the Deschutes Hop Henge Imperial IPA.

Dogfish Head amazed me by always having one of the longest lines every time I walked by. They were serving up Aprihop through their Randall with hops and fresh apricots in it. It was excellent and so was their Festina Peche.

I wish I had more time to hang out and talk with the great people I met, but alas my 3 month old daughter was getting tired as were the rest of us.

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Cascade Brewers Cup Results

June 10, 2008 – 7:34 am

I had 3 winners in the CBC Cup. My ‘Special Wheat’ took gold, ‘Pliny the Elder’ clone took silver, and my ESB took bronze.

AFAIK the results are only posted on the CBC’s Yahoo group, so I’m going to paste them in here. The formatting might suck since I’m just copy and pasting from an excel spreadsheet.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to Jim and the Cascade Brewers Guild for putting this together!

Cascade Brewers Cup Winner Results ~ 169 Entries/16 Flights/All Entries=Washington State

Best of Show

1 Jim Brischke Fairly Common California Common Beer Lake Stevens
7.5 Gal. SS Conical Fermentor

2 Jody Chinn Choco-Train Porter Robust Porter Redmond
10 Gallon Boilermaker

3 Mike and Steve Brown Red Rocket Irish Red Ale Lynnwood
5 Gallon Kegging System

Flight Name Place Brewers Name Beer Name Category City

Euro Lager

1 Jim Dunlap Poppa Fest Oktoberfest-Marzen Woodinville
2 Michele Mendrick and Mike Barber Hell of a Helles Munich Helles Kirkland
3 Brian Thatcher Schwarz Schwarzbier Kingston

Pilsner and American Lager

1 Andrei Vilkotski Bohemian Pilsner Bohemian Pilsner Sammamish
2 Andrei Vilkotski German Pils German Pilsner Sammamish
3 Jim Dunlap Grandpa Fils Prepro Pils Classic American Pilsner Woodinville

Bock

1 Tom Schmidlin Dang Ole Dopplebock Doppelbock Redmond
Asst. Chris Murakami
Asst. Dustin Schaeffer
Asst. Alex Scouras
Tie 2 Eric Schaffer May Day Maibock Maibock/Helles Bock Bothell
Tie 2 Darron Sullivan Dopplebock Dopplebock Bothell
3 Patrick Middledorf Yoopinator Dopplebock Everett

Light/Amber Hybrid

1 Jim Brischke Fairly Common California Common Beer Lake Stevens
2 Carey Peltz Brokeback Cream Ale Cream Ale Renton
3 Will Fredin Kayak Kolsch Kolsch Granite Falls

English and American Pale Ale

1 Carey Peltz Pigs Breath Pale Ale American Pale Ale Renton
2 Tim Hayner Big Brew Bitter Standard/Ordinary Bitter Bellevue
3 James Golovich ESB #1 Extra Special/Strong Bitter Richland

Amber and Brown Ale

1 Joel Engel American Brown Ale American Brown Ale Woodinville
2 Jim Dunlap Mahogany Red NW Ale American Amber Ale Woodinville
3 Jeff James Cascadia Amber American Brown Ale Kirkland

Scottish and Irish Ale

1 Mike and Steve Brown Red Rocket Irish Red Ale Lynnwood
2 Mike and Steve Brown Ron Burgundys Scotchie Scotch Scotch Ale Scottish Heavy 70 Lynnwood
3 Mark Emiley Highland Ale Strong Scotch Ale Federal Way

Stout

1 Adam Podleski Polish Imperial Stout II Russian Imperial Stout Everett
2 Alfonso Mendoza Alfonsos Xtra Stout Foreign Extra Stout Auburn
3 Mark Emiley Formico Oatmeal Stout Federal Way

India Pale Ale

1 Mike and Steve Brown Louis III American IPA Lynnwood
2 James Golovich Pliny the Elder Imperial IPA Richland
3 Dan Hansen BeeBop IPA American IPA Granite Falls

German Wheat and Rye

1 Jim Brischke Bauerntrampl Hefeweizen Weizen/Weissbier Lake Stevens
2 Mike Brown Holy Schnikes Weizenbock Lynnwood
3 Dawn Woodcox Step Leader Hefeweizen Weizen/Weissbier Redmond

Belgian and French

1 James Golovich Special Wheat Begian Specialty Ale Richland
2 Will Fredin Steamboat Saison Saison Granite Falls
3 Brain Thatcher Golden Belgian Golden Srong Ale Kingston

Strong Ale/Smoked/Wood-Aged

1 Tim Hayner Old Rusty Nail English Barleywine Bellevue
2 Mike and Steve Brown Oaked Father Time Wood-Aged Beer Lynnwood
3 Joel Engel American Barleywine American Barleywine Woodinville

Porter

1 Jody Chinn Choco-Train Porter Robust Porter Redmond
2 Mike and Steve Brown Daft Prick Robust Porter Lynnwood
3 Jeff Rea Baltic Schmaltic Baltic Porter Bellevue

SHV/Specialty

1 Dean Priebe Liquid Desert Specialty Beer Leavenworth
2 Joel Engel Dead Flowers (Heather Ale) Spiced/Herb/Vegetable Beer Woodinville
Tie 3 Dean Priebe Ebony and Ivory Vanilla Stout Spiced/Herb/Vegetable Beer Leavenworth
Tie 3 Michele Mendrick Honey Amber Specialty Beer Kirkland

Mead

1 Adam Podleski ABC Open Category Mead Everett
2 Adam Podleski Deceptively Drunk Braggot Everett
3 David Richmond White Cat Mead Other Fruit Melomel Northbend

Cider

1 Will Fredin Canoe Cider Common Cider Granite Falls
2 Lars, Peter, Paul Ringsrud Sunny Reign Common Cider Wenatchee
3 Lars, Peter, Paul Ringsrud Westerling English Cider Wenatchee

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Yakima Brewing building looking for tenants

May 14, 2008 – 6:08 am

Anyone want to start up a brewery?

http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/3993

A once-legendary brewing facility has a new owner.

Del Matthews has purchased the former Yakima Brewing & Malting Co. facility at 1803 Presson Place for $879,913 from International Wine & Spirits Ltd., a holding company of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.

The brewery was home to Scottish native Bert Grant’s well-
regarded microbrews that included his nationally acclaimed Grant’s Scottish Ale.

Matthews, who owns several properties throughout Yakima, is open to leasing the 33,000-square-foot facility to a variety of potential tenants, but said the facility is still prime for beer making — with millions of dollars of brewing equipment inside.

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Austin Homebrew Supply Annual Sale

May 10, 2008 – 6:36 pm

The AHS annual sale is next weekend. I just thought everyone would like to know so they can stock up on some supplies. I know I’m planning to order some things I can’t get locally. Pale chocolate malt, oak cubes, wyeast yeast strains, and probably some different bacteria cultures so I can try my hand at making some sour beers.

Here is the official word on it:

At Austin Homebrew Supply we are celebrating our 17th Anniversary with a big in-store party and a sale for all of our customers, both on-line and in-store. The official dates of the sale are May 17-18, 2008. Online, the sale begins at 12 AM Midnight CDT on May 17 (Saturday) and ends at 12 AM Midnight CDT May 19. That’s a 48 hour Sale. ONLY ORDERS PLACED DURING THAT TIME WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE SALE. That’s all day Saturday and Sunday, May 17 & 18, 2008. Instore that means during regular store hours Saturday May 17 (10 AM - 6 PM) and Sunday May 18 (12 PM - 5 PM).

EDIT: The sale is on and I just placed my order. Everything is 10% off and some things have extra special pricing

I ordered:

• 5 lbs of pale chocolate malt
• 5 libs of carafa III
• Wyeast “Denny’s Favorite 50″
• Wyeast Roeselare Ale Blend 3763PC=
• White Labs Belgian Sour Mix WLP655
• 10 oz of French Oak Cubes Medium Toast
• 2000ml conical flask
• 2″ stir bar

Total including shipping: $93.10

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NHC 2008 First Round Results Posted

May 8, 2008 – 4:02 pm

The NHC first round results have been posted at http://www.beertown.org/events/nhc/1st_round.html

Like I had heard, I got second place in Category 8, English Pale Ale with my ESB. I was looking at the other scores and my american wheat had the same score as the max score listed in the round, but since there were 26 entries I suspect there was a mini best of show round to determine which ones went on.

Congratulations to everyone else that is going on to the second round!

Edit: On the brewing network forum I found a link to a page that broke down the winners info, even with unofficial club points. http://mindbet.com The northwest region had the least amount of entries (in the US), I suspect thats because they were up in alaska.

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