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Summer’s rapidly approaching so it’s time to start your wine and for 4th of July celebrations. Do you have Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gift ideas? We can help with those and we just a few hop rhizomes left this season. Get yours before they are all gone. In this newsletter you’ll find Big Brew, new product information, Wyeast Private Collection, cheese stuff, and clove-like characteristics. Read on for all the details.

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Big Brew Back in Stock Join the Kansas City Bier Topeka Steam Meisters and Bacchus & After nearly a year without Northern Brewer Barleycorn celebration of we celebrate the return of our popular Big Brew and National Bacchus Batches Topeka Steam beer. Homebrew Day on the lot Topeka Steam has a toasty maltiness in the behind Bacchus & aroma and flavor, assertive bitterness and Barleycorn beginning at 10:00, Saturday, medium flavor from Northern Brewer hops. May 2. Thousands of homebrewers around It is a medium bodied and light copper the world unite to celebrate National colored. $61.50 Homebrew Day. The same homebrew recipe is brewed and a toast is raised New Products simultaneously at Noon Central Time. This Vindyard Fresh Wine Preservative is a great opportunity to interact with other Simply spray 2 quick bursts brewers, ask and answer related into an open bottle of wine then questions and see the very simple to the re-cork. VineyardFresh creates most creative, elaborate systems being used a protective barrier between by other homebrewers. Celebrate remaining wine and the air left homebrewing with us and thousands of in the bottle, preventing brewers all over the world. This is a day oxidation. It’s naturally heavy you won’t want to miss. enough to preserve your wine, light enough to be colorless, odorless and Expansion Stopper tasteless. Vineyard Fresh will preserve wine Recap an opened bottle of beer, sparkling for day, weeks, or even months. Each wine, or soda for short seemingly weightless bottle will keep term storage with the approximately 50 bottle of wine fresh. expansion stopper. $1.29 $13.95 each

Tasting Beer, Randy Mosher Wyeast 3789-PC Trappist Blend An Insider’s Guide to the World’s This is a unique blend of Belgian Greatest Drink Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces for Everyone knows how to drink emulating Trappist style beer from the beer, but few know how to Florenville region in Belgium. Phenolics, really taste it. Increase your mild fruitiness and complex spicy notes enjoyment of every beer you develop with increased fermentation drink with an understanding of temperatures. Subdued, but classic Brett the finer points of brewing, character develop. serving, tasting, and food pairing. Beer Beer Styles: Belgian Specialty , Belgian lovers will discover the ingredients and , Flanders Red, Oud Bruin brewing methods that make each brew unique and learn to identify the scents, Alcohol Tolerance: 12% ABV colors, flavors, and mouthfeel of all the Flocculation: medium major beer styles. Recommendations for Attenuation: 75-80% brews to try in more than 50 beer styles Temperature: 68-85°F from around the world encourage you to expand your horizons. Uncap the secrets in Wyeast 5151-PC Brettanomyces every bottle of the world's greatest drink! claussenii – Special Order $16.95 Isolated from English stock ale, this wild produces a mild Brett character with “Randy is a true beer evangelist, he is saving souls overtones of tropical fruit and pineapple. It one pint at a time.” — SAM CALAGIONE, Owner ferments best in with a reduced pH of Dogfish Head Brewery after primary fermentation has begun. It

may form a pellicle in bottles or casks. Wyeast Private Collection - BRETT Brettanomyces claussenii is typically used in Fusion - Available April through June 2009 conjunction with other yeast and lactic acid Create your own unique Brett flavors with bacteria. Wyeast’s complex fusion of Belgian Beer Styles: , Geuze, Fruit , inspired cultures. Flanders Red Ale Wyeast 3763-PC Roeselare Ale Blend

Wyeast’s blend of lambic Alcohol Tolerance: 12% ABV cultures produces beer with a Flocculation: medium complex, earthy profile and a Attenuation: 80% distinctive pie cherry Temperature: 60-75°F sourness. Aging for up to 18

months is required for full

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Alcohol Tolerance: 11% ABV Sign the 'Declaration of Beer Independence' Flocculation: variable posted on Facebook by becoming a fan of Attenuation: 80%+ the page: http://tinyurl.com/acbw-fb so we Temperature: 65-85°F can reach our goal of 10,000 fans by May Yes, another similarity between cheese 17! making and that of making wine, beer, mead or cider is the importance of keeping Spread the word and get others you know to equipment clean and sanitized. Although sign the Declaration on Facebook! cheese is created by specific bacteria and other organism, the cross contamination Attend an event at your local brewery during from other kinds of bacteria found in your American Craft Beer Week. kitchen can spoil a batch of cheese. No rinse sanitizers like Easy Clean or One Step Print the 'Declaration of Independence' and can be used in cheese making. Or give it to your local retailer, tavern or equipment may be sanitized by boiling. restaurant to show them you support beer made from small and independent brewers. Fresh, soft cheeses are easy to start with because they are simple and are not molded Cheese Stuff or aged. The basic kits 30 Minute Dating back about 8000 Mozzarella & Ricotta ($26.25) or the Basic years, Cheese is one of Hard Cheese Kit ($30.96) will get you the oldest foods known started.

to mankind. Although the century old methods In addition to the basic cheese starter kits, have influenced how we carry cheese making books and a number modern cheese looks of cheese ingredients so you can replace and tastes, for the home those which came in your starter kit or cheese maker, there are expand the types of cheese you choose to few changes in the make. methods. Home Cheese Making, Ricki Carroll Getting started is easy. Recipes for 75 You will probably find Homemade Cheeses most of the equipment (3rd Edition) you’ll need in your kitchen. This includes a colander, slotted spoon, cooking pot, cheese The classic home cloth or butter muslin and a thermometer. cheese making primer Just like in brewing the pot should be has been updated and stainless because aluminum and cast-iron revised to reflect the are reactive to the acids and will give your increased interest in artisanal-quality cheese a metallic taste. 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This 2 yards of 100% cotton, 60 culture is added directly to your milk and thread per inch, reusable Cheese Cloth. $5.60 Cheese Wax characteristics can also be produced by the Cheese Wax is especially wild yeast saccharomyces diastaticus. The made for coating cheeses. clove-like characteristics are desirable in It helps prevent unwanted Bavarian Wheat and many Belgian mold growth while . retaining moisture in the aging cheese. This wax is pliable and will If making wheat beers and clove-like not become brittle as will pure paraffin wax. characteristics are not desired, choose a $9.00 different yeast strain like Wyeast #1010 American Wheat which is dry, tart and crisp Citric Acid rather than phenolic. Increase the Citric Acid is used for making the 30 Minute fermentation temperature to produce more Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheeses. 1 oz. clove-like character in your wheat beers. $1.09, 2 oz. $1.59, 8 oz. $3.69 Less clove-like characteristics can be achieved by reducing the fermentation Tartaric Acid temperature and/or the amount of wheat in Tartaric Acid is used for making the recipe. Mascarpone, an Italian soft cheese which is made from cream and has a rich velvety Small amounts of chlorine from residual texture with a sweet delicate flavor. bleach sanitizer or the addition of municipal Mascarpone is used as a cream with fruit tap water to the fermenter can also result in and cakes as well as in many dessert recipes. clove-like characteristics. If using chlorine 1 oz. $2.02, 2 oz. $3.40, 1 lb. $16.25 as a sanitizer, it is important to rinse several times until the vessel no longer feels slick or You’ve plenty of time perfect art of 30 smells of chlorine. 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