Bacchus E-Lines February 2016 6633 Nieman Rd. Shawnee, KS 66203 913 962 2501 [email protected]

Customer Appreciation share wine tales from 11:00-2:00 on Saturday, Socializing, community building, February 27th. asking questions of fellow home fermentation hobbyist and Thanks to Kevin Johnson and the KC answering their questions occur Cellermasters for making this visit possible. during the first hour of Customer Appreciation events. During the New Products second we offer an educational component. Island Mist Strawberry Watermelon White Shiraz At the January event, Steve Strawberry Watermelon White Shiraz has candied set up a mini R&D strawberry and watermelon aromas; light body, Department. He showed us and the medium sweet flavor of refreshing how to make a hop spider, a strawberry and watermelon. $75.00 hop randall and a false bottom out of the top cut from a keg. A great crowd and some awesome Strawberry Watermelon Mist Labels ideas were shared. Check out our facebook page 30 count $8.35 for some photos: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bacchus- Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) Barleycorn-Ltd/151007041639431 Diammonium Phosphate, DAP, is an inorganic source of nitrogen, the basic nitrogen source in Our February Customer Appreciation mini talk nearly all yeast nutrients. It can be used to will be on oxygen and wine. Is oxygen is good for augment other yeast nutrients like Fermaid-K or wine? No, wait, oxygen is bad for wine. Can it be can be used by itself to stimulate yeast growth. both? Stop on by and explore the good, and the DAP is best used early in the fermentation process. bad of oxygen. It will help inhibit the formation of sulfur compounds and help reduce the later problems of Customer Appreciation: Wednesday, February hydrogen sulfide. 17, 6:00-8:00 featuring Argentine Malbec, Use .5 - .75 grams per gallon (½ tsp per 5 gal.) 1 Australian Traminer/Riesling, Flaked Out Stout, oz. $1.27 Oxygen & Wine mini talk at 7ish. Wednesday, March 16, 6:00-8:00 featuring South African Special Buy Pinotage, Viognier, Cold Soak Porter and cereal Crystal Whole Hops mashing at 7ish. Save the Dates! Released in 1993, Crystal is triploid variety from Hallertau Mittelfruh, Cascade, Brewer's Gold and Meet Jack Keller Early Green. A delicate mix of woody, green Author of the world's largest winemaking website spices with spicy, floral notes. The low bittering and the first wine blog ever on the internet. Jack is (alpha acid 5%) of Crystal make it ideal as an a certified wine judge and will be at Bacchus & aroma addition. Used in German-style Pilsners, Barleycorn! Stop in, bring him your wine Golden , Kolsch, Belgian Ales, Pale Ales, and questions, shake his hand and share a toast. Jack even Stouts. 1 oz. $1.59 will be here to socialize, answer questions and Sweethearts and Leprechauns Hands On Introduction to Wine Kit Making Savings Seminar for Two Saturday, March 12, 2016, 1:00-4:00 Bazooka Screen, 3/8” NPT Each couple will receive a male – 30% Off Vintner's Best Starter Kit and a one gallon Winexpert kit. Turn any pot into a mash tun or During the seminar you will be filter out hops in the kettle. The you will be learning the ancient Bazooka Screen is all stainless art of winemaking as you make steel construction, with a threaded a batch of wine using a 3/8" NPT male inlet to attach to the inner threads Winexpert kit. Throughout the of the Brewer's Edge Kettle Valve. Mesh size 16. process we will discuss what we are doing and Regular Price $13.65 Sweethearts & why. We will discuss necessary as well as Leprechauns Savings Price $9.56 recommended equipment and sanitation. You will leave with your first batch of wine started in the 120 Bottle Wine Vineland Rack Sale –primary and the necessary equipment and 20% Off information to complete the process at home. Vineland Wine Racks are Making wine from Winexpert kits is easy, fun and constructed from solid, natural rewarding. $125.00 pine and are modular. They are Consider Hands On Introduction to Kit Wine free standing and will hold a Making for Two as a Valentine's Gift! variety of different bottle sizes. The two step assembly requires Introduction to , Saturday, just a screwdriver and is finished in a snap. 120 Bottle Free Standing Rack February 6, 1:00-4:00 is 44½ wide x 10½ inches deep and 45 inches tall. This seminar will demonstrate just how easy it is Regular Price $137.25 Sweethearts & to get started . Jackie will be making Leprechauns Savings Price $109.80 a one gallon batch of during the seminar. Sanitizing and equipment will be discussed as well Island Mist Hard Pink as what we are doing and why, as he goes through Lemonade Kit – $64.99 each step of the process. The process is the same Get a head start on warm for a five gallon batch, only larger quantities. weather beverages with this super refreshing, tart, yet sweet, Introduction to Kit Wine Making, Island Mist Hard Pink Saturday, February 20, 1:00-3:00 Lemonade kit. With flavors of Learn the ancient art of winemaking as we make a freshly squeezed lemons, this batch of wine using a Winexpert kit. Throughout kit makes for a classic pink the process we will discuss what we are doing and lemonade with a kick. Bottle why. We will discuss necessary as well as labels are included. ABV: 7.5% Code: recommended equipment and sanitation. Making 5 Regular Price $75.00 Sweethearts & wine from Winexpert kits is easy, fun and Leprechauns Savings Price $64.99 rewarding.

Sweethearts & Leprechauns Savings valid through St. Patrick's Day or while supply lasts. Spring Seminars Riesling's delightful trademarks. Clean, cool and Introduction to Brewing, Saturday, April crisp. A wonderful balance of apple flavor with the slight acidity and firm character of the Riesling 9, 1:00-4:00 grape. Ready in just 28 days. $75.00 Homebrewing is fun and it is easy. Can you steep tea and boil water? Well, homebrewing is just that Brewers, you need an Irish easy. Although we'll be making a one gallon batch Dublin Dry Stout during the seminar, the process is the same for a Stouts have been brewed in Ireland, five gallon batch, the quantities and equipment are specifically Dublin, since the 1700s. just larger. A major key to success, sanitizing will Roasted barley, which gives dry stout its be discussed along with equipment as well as what French roast coffee-like dryness, was we are doing and why during each step of the originally added to stouts because the process. grain is not malted and taxes were based on the malted ingredients. This is a brownish-black brew Mold Ripened Cheese, Saturday, April 23, with ruby highlights. The malty aroma is followed 1:00-3:00 by roasted grains with a hint of sourness and a dry, Our guest presenter, Mary Crawford, will be coffee-like roasted grain aftertaste. $54.00 discussing the required and recommended supplies while demonstrating how easy it is to make mold Kansas Sunset (Red Ale) ripened cheese. She will be comparing the process Red ales occupy a permanent position on the fare for Brie, Camembert and Cambazola production of many of todays Brew Pubs, even in Ireland. An and the ease with which it can be made around easy drinking pint with subtle flavors. Red ales your already busy schedule. Mary always delights are characterized by reddish hue that ranges by sharing the results of previous batches. red/golden to auburn. A full bodied malty sweetness is off set by a medium to high hop Fruit Wine Making, Saturday, June 4, 1:00- bitterness and a slightly grainy-biscuity palate. 4:00 Hop aroma and flavor are low to medium with a Summer is the time for a great variety of fresh slightly sweet finish. $56.50 fruits and what better to do with them than transform fruit into wine. During this seminar we Wyeast Bitter Winter Private Collection will be making a batch of fruit wine demonstrating These strains will only be fruit preparation, recommended tests and available January through balancing the wine. We will discuss the necessary March 2016. Refer to our equipment, the fermentation process, clarification January Bacchus E-Lines or and aging, bottling and sanitation. the Wyeast site for complete descriptions of these very St Patrick's Day special strains: Wyeast Festivities for St Patrick's Day are British Cask Ale Yeast #1026 PC, Wyeast English only a few weeks away. Got your Special Bitter #1768 PC, and Thames Valley Ale Irish beer and green wine bubbling II #1882. yet? There's still time and we have a suggestion: Tips & Tidbits Belgian Candi and Winemakers, try Island Mist Green Apple Riesling Belgian Candi Sugars and Syrups The flavor sensation of biting into a crisp, crunchy are highly fermentable sugars green apple with a pleasant tartness followed by a generally contributing 1.032 points delicious juicy finish. Natural apple flavors blend per pound per gallon. perfectly with the lively apple notes that are one of Candi is Belgian sugar commonly used in Belgian Candi Sugars and Syrups range in color brewing Belgian especially stronger versions from clear (1L) to very dark (180L). Simplicity like and Tripels. The first difference and Light Candi Sugar add no color and between candi sugar and table sugar is the source create a refreshing subtle flavor that is on the of the sugar. Different countries have different periphery of the palate. They are commonly used sugar sources depending on which one easily in Saison, Golden Ale and Trippel. D-45 Candi grows closest to home. Sugar can come from Syrup is a dark-amber translucent Belgian Candi cane, beets, date palm, sorghum or maples. Syrup. It contributes hints of , vanilla, and Belgians get their sugar from beets where we in a light toasted bread. It delivers authentic flavor to the USA and most of the world get ours from cane. Dubbels, Quads, Abbeys and Grand Crus. The All of these sugar plants yield . darkest and richest of the Candi Syrups is D-180. It not only has beet sugar, but as well. Belgian candi sugar is and . Table It has no competitor for flavor, color or smooth sugar, whether it is cane or beet, is sucrose. fermentability. D-180 has notes of fresh ground Chemically, Belgian candi sugar has been coffee, wild cherry, dark stone fruit, and caramel inverted. Inverted sugar is made by splitting with a hint of dark-toasted bread. An exceedingly sucrose into fructose and glucose using heat and superior syrup for dark, high gravity Belgian Ales acid then neutralizing the acid back to a pH of 7. especially Westvlerteren and Rochefort clones.

Yeast has a field day with fructose and glucose Belgian Candi Sugar and Syrups can be used for while it has to work a bit harder to ferment color and interesting flavors by those who have sucrose. Therefore, Belgian Candi Sugars and gluten issues because they are gluten free. Syrups are highly fermentable sugars generally contributing 1.032 points per pound per gallon. It is used to boost alcohol without adding extra body and without forcing the yeast to produce invertase, the catalyst that breaks down sucrose.

“Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly.” --- W.E.P. French

Hop Rhizomes The hop plant (Humulus Lupulus) is a perennial that produces climbing annual vines from a perennial crown and rootstock. The vines may grow 25 feet in a single season, but will die back to the crown each fall.

Hop plants are unisexual, only the female hop produces the flowers that are used in brewing. All rhizomes offered by Bacchus & Barleycorn, Ltd. are female. As the female flower matures, it forms cone-like structures. These mature cones are 1 to 3 inches long yellowish green and papery to the touch. The cones are generally harvested in August and September, dried and then used for whatever brewing, medicinal, or ornamental purposes you desire.

To order your rhizomes, complete the information below and return it to Bacchus & Barleycorn, Ltd. by mail (6633 Nieman Rd., Shawnee, KS 66203), fax your order 913 962 0008, or e-mail to [email protected] by Monday, March 14, 2016. You will be notified via email when the rhizomes arrive. Growing instructions are included with your order. Hop Rhizome Order Form $5.25 per Rhizome

Quantity Quantity Quantity

____ Brewers Gold ____ Fuggle ____ Nugget

____ Cascade ____ Kent Golding ____ Sorachi Ace

____ Centennial ____ Mt Hood ____ Sterling

____ Chinook ____ Magnum ____Willamette

____ Crystal ____ Newport ____ Zeus

Name: ______

Address: ______

City: ______State: ______Zip: ______

Phone: (____) ______e-mail: ______

Order information must be received by 3/14/2016

Brewer’s Gold – High yielding bittering hop, ancestor to most high alpha hops, alpha 8-9% Cascade – Good yielding, floral American aroma type, disease resistant, alpha 5-6% Centennial - Good yielding, similar to Cascade with higher alpha, moderated disease resistance, alpha 8-10% Chinook – Good yielding high alpha hop, moderate disease resistance, alpha 10-13% Crystal – Hallertau hybrid, more vigorous and disease resistant, alpha 4-6% Fuggle – Early ripening, low yielding traditional English aroma type, alpha 4-5% Kent Golding – Moderate yielding, old English aroma type, alpha 4-6% Magnum – High yielding German high alpha, vigorous and disease resistant, alpha 12-14% Mt. Hood – Hallertau hybrid, more vigorous and disease resistant, alpha 4-6% Newport - New alpha acid variety, good growth and yield, disease resistant, alpha 9-17% Nugget – High yielding, vigorous disease resistant high alpha hop, alpha 12-15% Sterling – Saaz hybrid, much better yielding with similar aroma, alpha 6-9% Sorache Ace – moderate yield, moderated disease resistance, alpha 10-16% Willamette – Moderate yielding, triploid hybrid of English Fuggle, alpha 4-6% Zeus - American aromatic high-alpha hop with noticeable bitterness. Similar, if not identical, to Columbus/Tomahawk. Vigorous but susceptible to mildew diseases, alpha 15.0%

Alpha = average bittering rating for brewing purposes

Upon obtaining the rhizomes, they should be stored in a plastic bag, slightly moistened, and kept in a refrigerator until you are ready to plant them. Planting should be done after danger of heavy frost and before the days are too long and hot. It is not recommended that hop rhizomes be planted after the 1st of June in this region, Kansas City.