Written by Ken Carman
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Club Update: Escambia Bay Brewers
Pensacola, FL/Emerald Coast area
Ralph was admitted to the West Florida hospital on Friday. His Hemoglobin was extremely low. He has been given several units of blood and is feeling much better. He thinks he will be released sometime Monday. He is in room 403 at West Florida hospital. Ralph is historically one of the most important members of our club and as had some impact on every member and a direct impact on most. Let’s all pray for his speedy recover. Yes I said the “P” word (pray). Hopefully the ACLU won’t be having me arrested in the next couple days!
See you this afternoon at Hopjacks.
Pat Johnson
850-261-9218
| Event: | Beer Club Meeting |
| Date: | Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
| Start Time: | 4:00 pm |
| End Time: | 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Hopjacks Pub on Palafox Place |
| Details: | Starts at 4:00pm. Bring Beer!!! |
From Pat…
Beerfest – First off want to thank everyone that helped make the beer fest one of the best we’ve ever had (I already thanked God for the weather). It will be some time before we know how many folks attended and all the details but it was good. Everyone I spoke to said it was great and had NO complaints. The Beach event also went well and even the Sunday morning breakfast went off without a hitch.
Emerald Coast Beer Fest
The Professor would have pictures, but his camera was dead. One participant promised to send him pictures, so they will be posted when they arrive on the Professor’s digital doorstep.
Friday was a jam packed affair at the Seville Quarter, a French Quarter like restaurant in downtown Pensacola. There had to be thousands there sampling beer from the likes of Yazoo, Left Hand, McGuires, Abita, Dogfish, Oskar’s Blues: just to mention a few, and nine homebrew clubs from the Southeast and all across the Emerald Coast: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Days Inn had two buses running every 15 minutes back and forth between Pensacola Beach and Pensacola… taking revelers safely; often noisily, across two bridges.
Saturday started early with beach Olympics and plenty of beer… of course. It was overcast and rained occasionally: but that dampened no spirits; not even the corny keg kind. The beer was still marvelous. Then Saturday night there were at least 60 barleywine fanatics drooling over at least 50 high octane entries brought by one and all to Big Bob’s Barleywine Bash. To be honest there’s was enough that some will be brought back next year. For many it was a late night and a groggy morning.
More pictures may follow.
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Do the Mash, the TURBID Mash?
The Professor is feeling a little TURBID today…
Turbid Mashing
As Belgian-inspired beers grow in popularity and continue to nudge their way into North American beer culture, the desire to brew better, more adventurous, creations pushes brewers forward to find the next best ingredient or yeast for the style. Sometimes, though, it may benefit the brewer to look backwards, to see how some beers were brewed historically. Turbid mashing is a method that is still practiced in a few smaller lambic breweries in Belgium, such as Cantillon and Boon. If you have interest in brewing lambic-styled beers, wit beers, low-gravity or small session beers — or you just want to try an experiment — then utilizing a turbid mash may push your Belgian-inspired beer to the next level.
Club Update: Music City Brewers
Nashville, TN
Just a reminder to book your rooms at the Holiday Inn Select-Opryland/Airport -for the MCB Brew-Off by September 9.
We strongly encourage those who plan to stay for the evening festivities on Friday and/or Saturday nights, October 9 and 10, to stay over at the hotel. The special room rate of $99 per night will expire after that date. See http://www.hinashville.com/ for reservations.
Also, please see http://www.musiccitybrewers.com/brewoff.php for details for entries in the competition and for details regarding the dinner on Friday, October 9 with John Palmer as our guest speaker. You can also register there for the Pub Crawl on October 10. There will be a $5.00 fee for the van ride to the 4 pubs on the intinerary and they will bring you back to the hotel for the awards ceremony on Saturday night.
Bill
Ye Olde Scribe’s Incredible: Somewhat Edible, Links
“IBU. You not be Scribe. Drinking beer is better than a case of hives.”
Written by Ye Olde Scribe
Males unite! You have been banned! Hunted! Slaughtered! And far worse… IGNORED! Those female: male hating, snards now far too often have dominated the beer world!
No. This has nothing to do with MEN. Well, except men like BEER.
Little know fact: since the female is used for hopping, male hop plants have been banned many times throughout history… as have hops themselves.
Here are a few LINKS regarding hops.
Here are a few LINKS regarding hops.
Here are a few LINKS regarding hops.
Scribe thinks he repeated himself… repeated himself… re…
Editorial Time
Written by Joyce Lovelace
This will be an occasional feature here at The Professor’s site, often featuring guest writers.
Blame this question on too many hot, humid, sleepless nights and the erratic mind of a post-menopausal woman. This is a question about people in general and is not meant as a personal attack so please excuse the acerbic tone.
Why do we disdain people’s tastes in wine and beer but not other beverages? For instance I’ve never heard anyone say, “OMG you drink Grape Nehi?! That stuff is swill! Only Fanta is worth drinking! Only idiot neophytes drink Nehi!”
Now I am speaking of disdain for the person who likes it. A review of the beverage itself is fair game. If a person is reviewing a beverage they have every right to say that, to them, Tropicana Grapefruit Juice tastes like potato peels drenched in battery acid. But why put down the folks who like it?
I don’t recall running into this with hard liquor though maybe it’s there too.
It’s kind of like art, and I know that brewing beer or wine is an art, but darn it I like poker playing dogs! And yes Kincaid too, though I understand his personality is something awful, but then couldn’t that be said of some of the Great Masters too? I don’t think Pollack won any miss congeniality contests.
Would we have had the same blather over the “beer summit” if it hadn’t been beer? The President had a glass of Florida orange juice, Mr. Crowley had Maxwell house coffee (black, 2 sugars), Mr. Gates had Earl Gray tea with lemon and VP Biden had chocolate milk and cookies. OK yes – the media carnival would have had to make a production out of it.
Anyway -just askin- now I’ll go have a cup of organic coffee with local goat’s milk and stevia for sweetener – and yes dammit it’s instant coffee!
Message From Mr. Adams (No, not “Sam!”)
Music City Brewers: Nashville, TN area; but looking for judges all over; especially BJCP
Hello Judges,
We need your help. The 14th annual Music City Brew-Off is rapidly approaching and we are in need of as many judges as we can get to come out. I want to thank all of you that have judged at our competition in the past. Without your help our past competitions would not have been a success. I would like to extend this invitation out to all of you that can make it to our event. This year is going to be a blast. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have. I’m attaching the competition announcement. For more details and registration go to: www.musiccitybrewers.com
Tom Gentry is our judge coordinator this year. I’m copying him on this email
Look forward to judging with you all,
Johnathan Adams