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 International Awards. Judges picked Time: 7:30pm for Officers 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 from breweries in 48 countries. (414) 226-BEER 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 Quebec 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.