Baron Mind

The Monthly Publication of the Beer Barons of Milwaukee

May 2004 ˛ visit us on the worldwide web at www.beerbarons.org World of Beer Festival In This Issue World of Beer Festival ...... 1

Upcoming Events ...... 2

Club News ...... 2

Beer News ...... 2

Prez Letter ...... 3

On the Competition Front:

Club Only Comp ...... 4

State Fair ...... 4

In the Library

Book Review by Rick Grzelak ...... 5 The First Annual World of Beer Festival was by all accounts a major success. As the club‘s first effort at this kind of event that says a lot. All positive feedback from both vendors and attendees, with the exception that Serb Hall stopped serving food at 3:00. I heard about that from Beer Barons a few attendees. Good thing we had pretzels! of M ilwaukee Board We had over 200 beers, of which only a few were typical domestic beers. Delafield Brewhaus and Miller Technical President: Center brewed special beers for the Festival. And most of Paul Tinsen the micros and brewpubs around the area showed up with Ph:414.294.3983 their finest. That‘s one heck of an exotic selection! e-mail: ptinsen@ wi.rr.com Vice President: There was a lot that went into this festival to make it a success and the members should be proud. We had an Richard Binkowski excellent turnout of volunteers the day of the festival, including some people who bought tickets then saw we Ph: 414.281.3521 e-mail: palealehophead@ juno.com could use more help and pitched in. That shows the kind of club spirit that can make just about anything happen. Treasurer: I didn‘t get much of a chance to try beers unfortunately, I was too busy either helping out or talking Richard McKagan homebrewing at our —demo table“. Jerry Uthemann had a great setup with a cut-away sparging system. It was Ph: 262.363.3629 e-mail: mckagans@ centurytel.net a great idea and really showed how sparging worked very well. I had some samples of yeast recovered from a fermenter and showed (more talked about) how to clean it up for reuse. Newsletter Editor: Mike Schwartz Ph: 414.357.8702 As a club, we had 8 corny kegs of beer for the festival. We only tapped the first four or five as they lasted the e-mail: mjs@ seadogboats.com whole time. The couple I tried while we were setting up were great beers and did the club proud! I can hardly wait to start the work for next year‘s festival! See the Prez‘ Letter and web site for more on the festival. Mem ber at Large: Karen Grade Ph:414.871.9179 Mike Schwartz e-mail: Kgrade@ oncofwis.com

Mem ber at Large: Luther from Onopa Brewing Co. Phil Rozanski Ph: 414.529.9485 This meeting that we‘ve been looking forward to is postponed or possibly cancelled as Onopa has been sold and email: mrpivo@ wi.rr.com nobody knows where Luther is. 2 $40 for the bus trip and ticket to the festival Upcoming Events The bus schedule will be announced closer to the date of the festival.

Meeting Dates and As always, bring your own lawn chairs. If you‘re going, bring your money Style-of-the-Month: to the next meeting. The club paid for the tickets in advance.

May 26th: M aibock Style Night. Come participate in a blind tasting of Maibocks Bay View Pub Crawl and discuss the style and what your thoughts are. Learn more about beer, Saturday, July 24 tasting, flavors, brewing, flaws, and more! W hat is this Pub Crawl? June 24th: Homebrewing with the Beer Barons night. Sign up if you‘d It's a walking tour - W alk from bar to bar. There is no bus. For only $20 like to talk about something brewing related. This month club members (pre-registered) you get a t-shirt & one free beer at each bar. There will be who bring at least a six pack of homebrew for club members get in free! at least 8 bars!

It's a beer festival - You can try a different German beer at each bar.

It's a fund-raiser - All proceeds will go to the Museum of Beer & Brewing.

It's your pub crawl - Go to any or all of the bars, in any order you choose; stay as long as you like. There's no schedule. Beer Events It's all night long - Day of event registration and mandatory sign-in ends at 6pm, but the beer tickets are good all night long. These are all good events to learn more about beer and brewing as well as meeting brewing professionals and promoting the Beer Barons! W hat's Included? - 1st annual Bay View Pub Crawl T-shirt and beer tix for 1 German beer at each bar.

Wisconsin Microbrewers Festival - Chilton W here and W hen? Starts at Clowning Around (3007 S. Kinnickinnick Ave). Registration The festival is Sunday, May 23. The trip is sold out again! opens at 2PM. Beer tickets are good all night long, however you must register before 6pm. The bus is stopping at 4 Park and Ride locations: 1) College Ave. & 13th (South): 9:30AM How does it work? 2) W atertown Plank Road: 10:05 AM W alk from bar to bar in any order, & at your own pace. Enjoy 1 free beer 3) Brown Deer & I-43: 10:45 AM at each tavern. Evan's, Frank's Power Plant, Palm Tavern, Roman's Pub, 4) Cedarburg at Hwy C: 11:10 AM and other Bay View taverns will be in the crawl. Proceeds go to the Museum of Beer & Brewing. As always, bring your own lawn chairs. Everybody has to be paid by this month‘s meeting. How do I sign up? $20 Pre-Registration available at the Palm Tavern 2989 S. Kinnickinnick Ave.

Great Taste of the Midwest Tickets will be $25 at the door. Rich Binkowski has also set up the annual trip to the Great Taste. W e Email bayviewpubcrawl@ hotmail.com for group special starting times. have 45 tickets for club members. Unfortunately the festival sold out all 5000 tickets in one day.

The details of the trip for this year are: August 14 A Rogue and a Fish Capture International Awards Seven American breweries are among Officer»s Meeting and Social Hour those celebrating success in England's Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2004 bi-an n ual Brewing In du stry Time: 7:30pm for Officers International Awards. Judges picked finalists in eight categories (23 Social hour at 8:30pm classes), but the actual medal positions Place: Milwaukee Ale House won't be revealed until the awards ceremony May 25 at Guildhall in 233 North Water Street London. Competition at this year's event was fierce, with 822 beers Milwaukee, WI 53202 competing for 69 medals and eight champion beer trophies. Entries came (414) 226-BEER from breweries in 48 countries. Two American breweries won twice - Rogue Ales (Oregon) for American 3 Amber and Shakespeare Stout, and Fish Brewing (W ashington) for Organic India Pale Ale and Organic Amber Ale. Also honored are New Glarus Brewing (W isconsin) for Raspberry Tart, Alaskan Brewing (Alaska) for Alaskan Smoked Porter, Boston Beer Co. for Sam Adams Chocolate Bock, BridgePort Brewing (Oregon) for BridgePort IPA, and Some Thoughts From Sierra Nevada Brewing (California) for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Source: Real Beer Page The President... http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002205.php Newcastle to Close Tyne Brewery Scottish & Newcastle has announced it will close its historic Tyne Brewery in Newcastle next year. The decision comes just three months after it shut down its Edinburgh-based Fountain Brewery. Scottish Thank you all! Courage also announced that it has bought the Federation Brewery and I just want to send out a boat load of thanks. will consolidate brewing at the Dunston site. John Dunsmore, Chairman and Managing Director of Scottish Courage, said: "Both breweries have been operating below industry standards of capacity and efficiency. By Thank you to W hisperin' Jeff Platt for all his guidance and help joining forces, Scottish Courage and The Federation are able to preserve with the vendor contacts. Thank you Jeff. Thanks to all the officers a home on Tyneside." Production of Newcastle Brown and other ale with a special thanks to Mike Schwartz who took on so many tasks brands will remain on Tyneside, while production of other Scottish my head was spinning!! Thanks to Rich Binkowski for his work in Courage brands will transfer to Tadcaster. contacting all the vendors and getting them to come to our event. Source: Real Beer Page Every vendor that was spoken to had a great time which is vitally http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002193.php important in getting them to come next year. Thanks to Rich(Mac) McKagen for not pulling his hair out while trying to make sense of Sleeman Acquires Unibroue all the money coming in and going out. Thanks to our "Ice Queen" Sleeman Breweries is buying microbrewery Unibroue for about Karen Grade for distributing tickets to the Channel 10 auction and $31 million Canadian. Unibroue exports a wide range of to numerous other places that were able to give our tickets away, Belgian-influenced beers to most part of the United States, including which gave us some free publicity. And also for running a very Blanche de Chambly and La Fin du M onde. "The acquisition of Unibroue successful raffle at the event. Thanks to Phil Rozanski for the and its premium brands will complement Sleeman's current portfolio, in reconfiguration of our logo into the W OB logo. Thanks to Rich addition to providing he required infrastructure to expand our presence in Quebec." Sleeman chairman and chief executive officer John Sleeman Heller for securing the raffle prizes. And last but not least thank said. The deal is expected to close in June. you to all the volunteers. I have said it before but with out you this would not have taken place. The purchase gives , Ont.-based Sleeman increased brewing capacity in Eastern Canada, and will also allow the brewer to W e definitely needed more volunteers and my apologies go to all expand its Quebec presence. As part of the deal, Unibroue founder and of you. I was hoping you would all get a chance to enjoy it more. chief executive officer André Dion has agreed to act as a consultant for Next year the mistakes will be fixed and it will be an even better one year. event. The club was able to put quite a bit of "seed money" in the Source: Real Beer Page bank for next years event which will make the planning and staging http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002187.php so much easier. As many of you know, the only down side to the festival was my camera being stolen in the waning moments of the Beer Barons festival. I know the person wasn't trying to steal my camera, just a —Of course, there were no beer barons like those of Milwaukee -- the city couple of beers. So unfortunately all the work that Nikki did in virtually built on malt and hops. The unmatched quantities of beer taking pictures was for naught. I did contact the guys from consumed in the brew city during the 19th century gave rise to the popular eatdurt.com and they are sending some of their better pictures to us term "Milwaukee goiter," used to refer to a rounded belly. A well-known joke of the day said that every kitchen sink in Milwaukee had three faucets to use. Please check out their web site for pictures and a review of -- one for hot water, one for cold water, and the biggest for beer.“ the festival(www.eatdurt.com).I'm sorry if I missed anybody but Read more: http://www.realbeer.com/edu/abm/barons.php thank you all again for making our 1st W orld of Beer Fest a huge Source: Real Beer Page success. Next year will be bigger and better!

(An interesting article about the history of beer and great mentions of Proost Milwaukee - ed) The Rise of the Beer Barons Paul by Carl H. Miller http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/beerbarons.shtml

If you are associated w ith, or know of an upcom ing event or other item that m ight be of interest to our club please send inform ation to the new sletter editor by the second W ednesday of the m onth for inclusion in the new sletter. 4 There are six competitions during this August to May period, with each competition focusing on a predetermined BJCP style. Each club can enter On the Competition ONE entry for each competition. Points are awarded on a 12, 8, 4 point basis for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places respectively. Additional points can be Front awarded to the club for individual entries in the NHC 1st and 2nd round on a 6, 4, 2 basis for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places respectively. The official rules & schedule can be found at the AHA website http://www.beertown.org/homebrewing/club.html. For a complete description of all the BJCP categories, go to http://www.bjcp.org/style-index.html#download. There you can download National AHA Club-Only Homebrew Competition (COC) – the BJCP style guidelines ”til you get thirsty. COC Season Has Finished. By Chris Belsky If anyone has questions concerning this, feel free to either email me at belskyc@ msoe.edu, or give me a call anytime at 414-807-5230. W ell, the 2003-2004 COC season has finally come to an end with the May competition of ”Extract Beers'. Final results will be posted in the June Prost, newsletter, but going into the last event the Beer Barons are in a 3-way tie ~Chris Belsky for 3rd place. I'd like to congratulate and thank everyone who participated in supporting 2004 Wisconsin State Fair Homebrew Competition the Beer Barons by representing the club with their homebrewed beer. nd Thanks! It's the active participation of club members that brings up the May 22 ! level of the Barons. by Chris Belsky

Now, for the next 2004-2005 season, I'm passing on the organization W ell, the entries are in and the competition is just right around the corner, duties to Lenny Beck, who is looking forward to working with you on the with the judging being held on Saturday, May 22nd at the East Exhibit COC. Please give Lenny the necessary respect & support, as running an Hall (the old Cream Puff building) on the W I State Fair Grounds. event such as this can be a lot work. I'd just like to encourage everyone to please follow the guidelines when bringing in a beer to represent the W e've got some great judges coming to this event, and I'm looking club: that means clean bottles (no marking or labels), the recipe form forward to an even better competition than last year. Of course, this event filled out, and bottle labels filled out and rubber-banded to each bottle. is only a success when our club members turn out and volunteer, and we These simple steps really save a huge amount of work for the organizer need your help. W e're looking for volunteers to judge & steward at the and show the respect that you have for the both the club and organizer. event. Stewarding simply involves helping to setup the event and bring out to the judges the entries and any necessary materials. In past, when I For next season's events, if you're interested in representing the club and stewarded, one of my favorites was getting to taste the entries as they were entering this competition, your club entries are due at the July 28th returned by the judges œ what a great way to sample beers! Also, if you meeting of the Beer Barons. Bring in three (3) bottles of your best brew know anyone who is qualified to judge, please pass on this information (bottles must be 10-14oz brown bottles with no marking/labels. Please, and invite him/her to our competition. no flip-top Grolsch style bottles.) [in the past we asked for four (4) bottles, but we realized this was too demanding on your homebrew supply œ sorry! Included with our competition is a potluck lunch that we hold with the W I So we've reduced it to the minimum of three (3) bottles: two (2) for Vintner's (who simultaneously hold their vintner's competition with the shipping to the COC, and one (1) for club judging. If you'd also be so homebrew competition). Everyone is asked to bring a small dish or drink kind, please fill out the ”Recipe Information' sheet that you can obtain at to pass, and this really is a nice touch to the event to take a nice break and this link: http://www.beertown.org/homebrewing/pdf/entry_recipie.pdf have lunch. Parking passes & maps are also provided upon request. and bring it in with your beer. W e have a panel of club-member judges that will select which beer gets to represent the club and be entered in the Last year, there were approximately 180 entries, and we're hoping for an COC. increased showing this year. Building upon the success of adopting the BJCP categories & making this competition a sanctioned BJCP event, Here's the complete & updated COC schedule and entry due dates: we'll continue to work with the BJCP making it easier for both entrants and judges œ which will allow for standardized entry & judging. This 2004 - 2005 Schedule helps competitors to easily enter their beers, and provides for a Club Member Entry Due standardized platform for judges. Dates (to the Beer Competition Style and Date Baron‘s Meeting) For those of you interested in the event details, visit the Beer Baron's August 2004 œ W heat Beer (BJCP July 28th, 2004 website www.beerbarons.org and download the Rules & Regulations. The Category 17) website will also have the latest news, postings, and downloads. September/October 2004 œ Smoked August 25th, 2004 There are new increased cash prizes this year! The Best of Show winner Beer (BJCP Category 23) gets $30, 2nd Best of Show winner gets $20, and each Best of Category November/December 2004 œ IPA October 27th, 2004 winner (with six main categories) gets $10. (BJCP Category 7) Gold/silver/bronze ribbons are also awarded for the highest scoring beers Competition Basics: of the competition, and of course, all judging sheets are sent back to you The National AHA Club-Only Homebrew Competition is the national so that you can learn from the judge's comments (which many consider a homebrew competition that awards clubs for their outstanding efforts and great incentive for entering their beers in competitions œ what a great way products. The competition runs from August through May, ending in the to learn!). National Homebrew Competition (NHC) Conference where the homebrew club of the year is crowned. I think this will again be a great event, and I look forward to working with 5 all the great judges, stewards and coordinators on this event. If you (or walking around in perpetual stupor, and waking up with a daily hangover your friends) would like to help out as a judge or steward at the event, is perhaps not the best way to live. please feel free to sign up and join the fun. You can contact me at belskyc@ msoe.edu or home/mobil 414-807-5230. Not only were these negatives becoming apparent, but as the infatuation diminished, external forces were beginning to have an influence. Hope to see your beers at the Fair! Technology made it possible to trust that a non-alcoholic beverage be safe to drink, unfiltered water being the home to numerous parasites and Prost, diseases. More importantly, there was a growing reform movement within ~Chris Belsky the nation. Abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and the temperance movements all gained strength in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was the temperance movement in particular, that had the greatest immediate influence. The movement, originally dominated by men, stressed moderation rather than prohibition, and used religious and moral arguments against heavy consumption of alcohol. Later, women became In The Library the dominant force, and the movement began to press for prohibition. On the whole, though, it was reasonably successful in beginning to change the way that the average citizen looked at alcohol.

As the relationship progresses, those little flaws in the other person often become grating. The mole that was so cute had become an ugly deformity. All the flaws became magnified, and could no longer be tolerated. A separation was in order.

Once the eyes of the nation became less clouded by alcohol, it became the view of many that if moderate consumption was good, elimination was Book Review: even better. This is when the prohibition movement really grew. Though The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol prohibition itself lasted a little more than a decade, the movement itself By Eric Burns lasted several. 'Can't live with 'em', and can't live without 'em', eventually 336 pp, Philadelphia proved true, and the separation became unbearable. Prohibition ended in Temple University Press, $29.00 early 1933.

Review by Rich Grzelak The relationship survived its crisis, and in some ways became stronger for it. The modern era, the mature era, is one of relative acceptance and Many home-brewers are drawn to the hobby because of their romantic tolerance. Moderation is stressed, and the legal and social environment notions about the prohibition era. The idea of making home-brew has a generally reflects that view; drinking is acceptable in some situations, and slightly subversive feel to it, and images of that era are deeply ingrained unacceptable in others. Although there has been a growing movement to in the modern American mythos. Tales of gangsters and G-men, bathtub sanction operating a vehicle while intoxicated, the laws are not gin and rumrunners are so well-known as to almost seem clichéd. Despite particularly draconian, and a new era of prohibition seems very unlikely, this, the prohibition era is but a small fraction of the American experience particularly since groups such as the W CTU have become increasingly with alcohol. The American experience with alcohol is deeper, and far marginalized. more varied than that. In fact, in a sense, it closely parallels that of a romantic relationship. The book is well-written and well-researched. Virtually every page is filled with a new insight or interesting anecdote. Although the focus of the Initially, there is infatuation. In the case of the earliest European settlers, book is on the history of drinking in America, plenty of information is alcohol permeated virtually every aspect of society. It was not unusual, included relating to beer and brewing, and this is a book is strongly for example for shopkeepers to offer patrons a drink, just for entering their recommended for anyone who has even the slightest interest in any of store. The town drunk and the town preacher were often the same person, those areas. as it was the custom to offer a drink to a visitor both upon leaving and entering a home. Not only was alcohol consumed from the time when one rose in the morning to when one retired in the evening, but it was commonly consumed from infancy to doddering old age.

In the opening chapter of his book, Eric Burns refers to alcohol as America's first national pastime, and in it, he makes the case that much of our history was lubricated by alcohol. Jefferson wrote much of the Declaration of Independence with a glass of Madeira at his side, and it was in a tavern that W ashington first met Adams. Franklin, a relatively moderate drinker by the standards of the day said that if we were meant Submitting Original Articles to drink water, we would not have been given an elbow capable of lifting If you are interested in w riting an article for the new sletter a wine glass. It is likely that most of our founding documents were written please do it! Original articles m ake the new sletter m uch under the gentle glow of an alcoholic buzz. m ore interesting and personal for other m em bers. Don’t be afraid that you can’t w rite w ell, not everybody can. If you’d Later, as a relationship matures, little flaws in the other person are noticed. like, I’ll review any article that you provide. W e’ve had a w ide This was just as true of the societal experience with alcohol. It soon variety of contributions throughout the history of the club. became apparent that consuming alcohol while operating machinery was Just about anything w ill be of interest to som e club m em bers. not the wisest of ideas. The new industrialists noticed that people are Let m e know if you have a topic in m ind. All articles that are more productive sober than drunk. And finally, many people realized that still available w ill be added to the clubs w eb site This Month’s Meeting The W ednesday May 27th meeting will be held at Clifford‘s Supper Club, 10448 W . Forest Home Ave., Hales Corners. The meeting will start promptly at 7:30pm. Admission to this meeting is $5.00.

This month will be Maibock style night. W e‘ll have a blind tasting of a selection of commercial maibocks. This is a good opportunity to learn more about beer styles, tasting, flavors, brewing processes, and identification of flaws.

Please support Clifford’s Supper Membership Information Club with your patronage The Beer Barons of Milwaukee is open to anyone 21 years of age or older. Annual dues, which cover the cost of producing this newsletter, are $15.00. Clifford’s allow s us to use their In addition, we normally charge a $5.00 fee for each meeting attended to cover the cost of the featured beer style we taste that evening. However, banquet room at reduced charge to additional fees may be required to cover the cost of special events such as the B eer B arons. Y our support w ill the annual party in December. Annual dues may be paid at the monthly help show our appreciation. meeting, or a check may be sent to: Treasurer, Beer Barons of M ilw aukee P.O. Box 270012 Famous for their Fish Fry M ilw aukee, W I 53227 S erved both W ednesday and Friday This newsletter will be sent free of charge to prospective members for 3 Cocktail H our 3 - 6 pm months. The date that appears on the address label of your newsletter is the date that your membership expires. W e do not send out reminders, so be sure to check the date on the label to see when it is time to renew.

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