July 2002 As Many of You Know, I Will Be Moving to Logan, PRESIDENT: Utah, at the End of This Month to Take a Teaching Royal Willard Position at Utah State University
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This is the HOTV Brewsletter EDITOR'S NOTE VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 7 by Kendall Staggs July 2002 As many of you know, I will be moving to Logan, PRESIDENT: Utah, at the end of this month to take a teaching Royal Willard position at Utah State University. I'm excited about (541) 752-1314 the move, but wistful about leaving behind the VICE PRESIDENT: great folks of the Heart of the Valley Homebrew Scott Leonard Club. This will be my last brewsletter as editor, but (541) 752-0780 I hope to contribute some articles down the road. I NEWSLETTER EDITOR: also hope to visit Corvallis in the future, not only to Kendall Staggs see friends, but to find some good beer! Auf (541) 753-6538 Wiedersehen. CLUB TREASURER: Lee Smith In cerevisiae, fortis (In beer there is strength). (541) 926-2286 FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL BEERFEST Joel Rea by Ron Hall (541) 758-1674 The Portland International Beerfest will be held THIS MONTH'S MEETING July 12-14, at a park near the Lloyd Center. You may want to get hotel rooms for the weekend or The Heart of the Valley Homebrew Club meets on coordinate drivers. The Lloyd Center is on the the third Wednesday of each month, alternating MAX line, so you can pretty much stay anywhere between Corvallis and Albany. Our next meeting downtown, as long as you are sober enough to find will be at 7:00 p.m. on July 17, at the home of Scott the train station afterward. I have a room at the and Karen Caul, 2930 NW Mulkey, Corvallis. Their Embassy Suites downtown, but have several phone number is 757-1190. Here are directions: friends flying in for the weekend, so I can't promise any floorspace or bedspace. Hope to see you From Highway 99W: there! - Take Highway 99W to Circle Boulevard. - Go west on Circle to 29th. The PDX International Beerfest started last year, - Go south (left) on 29th to Mulkey. and has a more intimate, less frat party - Turn right on Mulkey. Scott's house is a yellow atmosphere than the Oregon Brewers Festival, house on the left. which is two weeks later and which many of you have attended. The beers are much more From Highway 34: interesting, and they include dozens of Belgian, - After you get to Corvallis, Highway 34 becomes German, and other international beers on tap and Harrison. Take it until you get to 29th. in bottles. It is not on the riverfront, but at a park - Turn right on 29th. Continue north past the Dari near the Lloyd Center on the east side of the river. Mart at Grant and 29th. Mulkey is the second left For more information, here is the website: past Grant. http://www.portlandbeerfest.com/PIB%20Index.htm - Turn left on Mulkey. Scott's house is a yellow house on the left. GERMAN BEER NIGHT by Kendall Staggs LAST MONTH'S GATHERING On Monday, July 1, Joel Rea and Scott Leonard Many thanks again to Lee and Helen Smith for joined me for an evening of eats and drinks- hosting the post-festival meeting. Lots of great German style. Joel brought beet soup and rye leftover homebrews were available, despite the bread, Scott brought the fixings for green salad scramble for beers tp take home. Helen's and contributed most of these German beers, jambalaya was delicious, the weather was great, which he purchased during his last trip to Los and there was a good turnout among the members. Angeles. I provided a few beers and some delicious German food from Gustav's restaurant in HOTV SUMMER PICNIC Clackamas. We had sausages, chicken schnitzel, by Lee Smith hot German potato salad, and sauerkraut. It was all very delicious. It's time to mark your calendars for the annual picnic. The date is Saturday, August 24, in Avery 1. Hirsch Hefeweisse (5.1 percent abv) Park, Corvallis. This year we have the Thompson Hefeweizen Privatbrauerei Hirsch, Shelter, which is much larger and better than Maple Sonthoffen, Bayern This was good version Grove. of the South German Wheat Beer style. It BOB MCCRACKEN SCHOLARSHIP UPDATE was pale, cloudy, and had plenty of yeast by Lee Smith sediment. The aromas and flavors had, according to Joel Rea, "tropical overtones." Here is the OSU Foundation's response to our The ripe banana esters were certainly fourth $100 McCracken Fund donation. It was present, but the clove qualities were muted. addressed to the Heart of the Valley Homebrewers. I've had better Hefeweizens, but this was a good one. "Thank you for your recent contribution to the 2. Steingadener Weisse Dunkel (5.3 percent College of Agricultural Sciences through the Bob abv) Dunkelweizen Aktienbrauerei McCracken Scholarship Fund. As you know this Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Bayern Joel, scholarship fund has been utilized to provide Scott, and I were all impressed by the rich, support to a group of very chocolaty malt in this Dark Wheat Beer. It also had some Weizenbier character- fine young scholars. We would like to take this bananas and clove. It was very drinkable opportunity to thank you for your assistance of the and very enjoyable. The thousand-year-old students and programs in Agricultural Sciences at town of Kaufbeuren, in southwestern Oregon State. Your support of the College and its Bavaria, is considered one of the "pearls of students and programs has shown true generosity the Allgäu region," which is famous for its and is greatly appreciated. Thank you for leading castles and cheeses. the way with your gift." 3. Stifts Weizenbock (7.0 percent abv) Sincerely, Weizenbock Allgäuer Bräuhaus, Kempten, Andrea Chavez, Jennifer Milburn, Bayern Unlike most Weizenbocks I have OSU Foundation had, this was blonde in color. It was one of two beers we sampled that had problems. It AMERICAN BEER MONTH was sour and had some off aromas and flavors. It reminded me a little of drinking July is here, and that means it's time to celebrate water from a garden hose. Scott didn't think American Beer Month. Over 7000 brands of beer it was so bad, but there was still beer left in are brewed in the United States, so take the time to the bottle. appreciate the diversity of the many brews and 4. Reissdorf Kölsch (4.8 percent abv) Kölsch support your local breweries. It's also time to start Privatbrauerei Heibrich Reissdorf, Köln, brewing the beers that will sustain you through the Nordrhein-Westfalen This very pale beer fall and winter, so support your local homebrew featured the light, fruity malt characteristic store! of a genuine Kölsch, and also had a fairly assertive hop profile. It was a well- COMMERCIAL BEER REVIEWS balanced, easy to drink beer, perfect for by Kendall Staggs summertime. One can almost see the BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST cathedral in Cologne. 5. Weltenburger Kloster Urtyp Hell (4.6 Here are some big beers that are still suitable for percent abv) Munich Helles Klosterbrauerei summer sipping. I purchased the first two at Weltenburg, Kelheim, Bayern Here is one of Belmont Station in Portland. The third one came those beers that makes me immediately from Liquid Solutions in Tigard. Like Belmont think "German." Light in color and body, it Station, Liquid Solutions keeps all its beers cool has a distinctive malt character with and dark; shoppers see only the display bottles honeyish notes, and just the right amount of along a wall. It has a huge selection of imports and Noble hops for balance. It was simply an domestics and a knowledgeable staff. I recommend outstanding beer. The Weltenburg Brewery it highly. claims to be the oldest monastic brewery in Topvar Dark Lager [500 ml, 5 percent abv] the world, tracing its brewing to at least This beer from Slovakia features a dark chestnut 1050. It is located near the Danube River brown color and a modest cream head. A brew has town of Kelheim, about 60 miles northeast all the intense, roasted character of a Stout but the of Munich. Kelheim is famous for its "Devil's smoothness of a lager. There is a slight burnt Wall," which was part of the wall the quality from black malt. It is very drinkable and Romans built to keep the Germanic tribes satisfying-I recommend it with dark chocolate. from invading their empire to the south. 6. Hofbräuhaus München (5.0 percent abv) DeLandtsheer Malheur Tripel [750 ml, 10 percent Munich Helles Hofbräuhaus, München, abv] Bayern This beer is similar to the last one, Here is a delicious Monastic Ale from Buggenhout, and it comes from one of the larger, more Belgium. It calls itself a "blonde, double- strength mainstream breweries in Bavaria. Perhaps (20¼ Plato), bottle-conditioned ale with the that it why it seems to lack many of the outstanding flavor of whole hops." I found it spicy, distinctive qualities that we liked in the even peppery on the finish, with a very soft Weltenburger Helles. Given the outstanding mouthfeel. It became even more delicious as it reputation of the Munich's "court brew warmed. house," we were all a little disappointed. 7. Holzhauser Landbier (5.0 percent abv) Belzebeth [250 ml, 15 percent abv] Munich Helles Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren, Talk about intense-this beer proudly proclaims its Kaufbeuren, Bayern None of us knew what potency on the bottle neck foil. The label features a a "Landbier" is, and after I looked up the rather nasty-looking, dancing, long-tailed devil. It is brewery's website, I still don't know. Under brewed by the Brasserie Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc "products" it just showed a picture of nine Brewery) in northern France, and it is related beer bottles.