HOTV T-SHIRTS FOR SALE
from Joel Rea
Have you worn your latest HOTV shirt into the ground? So many dang beer
stains that the original color just does not exist? Pit stains beyond
recognition? Your sweetie won't sleep with you anymore cause you refuse
to wash your favorite nightie (also reputed to have Lee Smith "dripple"
down the front)? Maybe you never got one? Maybe you wanted to hold out
for a fresh one when they became true collector's items! Now that
everyone else's has become a dust rag, now you can strut yer stuff with
a fresh and exciting HOTV brew shirt. There are just three left so come
on down and get Îem while they are last. Colors and sizes are limited
and our lawyer advises us to claim that injuries acquired while wearing
the shirt, including: confrontations with Greyhound buses, falling from
numbing heights, incidents involving screw drivers and electrical
outlets, missing fingers from
chainsaws, bizarre acts of God and accidental drownings in bathtubs are
not covered by the HOTV comprehensive party insurance plan.
Price? Ah heck, I don't remember what they went for-something like
$59.61. TODAY AND TODAY ONLY!!!! $20.00 EACH, but wait...there is more!
With each T-shirt purchase CORVALLIS BREWING SUPPLY WILL TOSS IN A NEW
AND IMPROVED STORE PINT MUG (imitations do not have the "Sheba stamp of
approval" on the bottom!) All proceeds will benefit the Lee Smith
Travel Fund. If you do not buy one soon, during the holiday season you
may be forced to take one home from the ring toss event.
BETO'S BEER ADVENTURES IN SEATTLE
from Beto Zuniga
Anacortes Brewhouse
Anacortes is somewhere between Bellingham (Orchid Street Brewery) and
Mount Vernon (Skagit River Brewery) and close to the San Juan Islands,
in fact you take a ferry from Anacortes to get to the islands. It's a
small town with one brewpub and you would think that it would be easy to
find the place. We looked and looked and gave up. We decided to just
go to Rockfish Grill. Upon walking in the door we noticed on the sign
under Rockfish Grill in smaller print was "and Anacortes Brewhouse." We
found it! It was quite a popular place. The Rockfish Grill side of the
place has fresh local Northwest cuisine, lots of seafood. Their beers
are Pilsner, Amber, and IPA, to Porter, Stout, Barley Wine, and a Bock.
The pilsner was surprising good. The big single-room pub is in a
historic building; it's served several purposes since its construction
in 1929, including a saloon, a stevedoring business, a Montgomery Ward
retail outlet, an ice cream shop, and a plumbing business. The back bar
is made out of mahogany, built in Pennsylvania, and was originally in
the Skagit Saloon until being reinstalled in the Anacortes Brewhouse.
The Rock Wood Fired Pizza and Brewery
The Rock (not related to the Rock Bottom) is in Lynnwood just north of
Seattle. As you can tell from tier name their specialty is pizza, wood
fired pizza. I didn't try the pizza but I did try the beers. Who would
have thought! Their beers are Suicide Blonde, Wild Thing Honey Wheat,
Rock Steady Red, Sledgehammer IPA, Jumpin' Black Jack Porter with two
special brews Mellow Yellow Honey Wheat (with lemon zest) and Lunatic
Fringe XXXPA. I had the sampler if you couldn't tell. All their brews
very similar in that they had a slight vegetable flavor. But the porter
was excellent!
The Freemont Oktoberfest
At the center of the universe there was an Oktoberfest on September
12-23. The fest was setup more like a beer tasting festival more than
an Oktoberfest. There were lots of local and non local breweries
present; Bear Creek Brewing, Boundary Bay Brewery, Coeur d'Alene
Brewing., Dad Watson - McMenamins, Deschutes Brewery, Diamond Knot
Brewery, Dick's Brewing, Elysian Brewing, Far West Ireland Brewing, Fish
Brewing, Gordon Biersch Brewing, Hale's Ales, Leavenworth Brewery, Lunar
Brewing, Mac & Jack's Brewery, Mendocino Brewing, Monkey Brau & Lost
Falls Brewing, New Belgium Brewing, Orchard Street Brewery, Pacific
Crest, Paulaner, Pike Brewing, Port Townsend Brewing, Pyramid Ales and
Lagers, Ram Big Horn Brewing, Red Hook Ale Brewery, The Rock Wood Fired
Pizza and Brewery, The Rockfish Grill and Anacortes Brewery, Scuttlebutt
Brewing, Skagit River Brewing, Snipes Mountain Brewing, Snoqualmie Falls
Brewery, and Wyder's Cider. Fifteen bucks got one a 6-ounce souvenir
cup and 5 beer tickets. Addition tastes were $1. I tried most of the
fest brews but nobody could surpass Paulaner's Oktoberfest, though. The
rest seemed a bit under lagered. USA Today ranked last year's Fremont
Oktoberfest as one of America's top ten Oktoberfests.
COMMERCIAL BEER REVIEW
by Kendall Staggs
Here is a brief review of a beer which I recently tasted.
Groot Voorst Signature Ale 1999
What happens when the Dutch brew a Belgian Monastic Ale? In this case,
the result is very good. This beer has plenty of the aromas and flavors
one would expect from a class Trappist Ale, and I loved it. For
starters, the package is something special: a 750 ml bottle, snugly
corked and caged, with a little wooden shoe on a string draped around
its neck.
The beer is dark, murky brown with chestnut hues, and pours with a huge,
crackling head (Fred Eckhardt tells us to listen to our beer). The
aromas are similar to the best monastic brews-fruity, phenolic, and
reminiscent of exotic cheeses. The flavors are even more intense. They
remind one of bittersweet dark chocolate, anise (black licorice), and
sweet malt. There is only a little hop bitterness in this medium-bodied
beer. The alcohol is obvious and its warming effects linger after each
sip. Rich and potent (11 percent alcohol by volume), Groot Voorst is a
great dessert beer. For more information, see www.hollandbeer.com
GABF WINNERS AMONG OREGON BEERS
The following Oregon beers won awards at the recent Great American Beer
Festival in Denver, Colorado. The number of entries in each category is
in brackets.
Widmer Hefeweizen-Bronze. American Wheat Ale [53]
Rogue Chocolate Stout-Silver. Chocolate-flavored Beer [13]
Uncle Otto's Oktoberfest (Portland Brewing)-Gold. MŠrzen / Oktoberfest
[49]
Kiwanda Cream Ale (Pelican Pub)-Bronze. Golden Ale [61]
India Pelican Ale (Pelican Pub)-Bronze. India Pale Ale (American) [98]
Cascade Ale (Deschutes)-Bronze. Bitter [26]
Bachelor ESB (Deschutes)-Gold. Extra Special Bitter [34]
Rogue Mocha Porter-Bronze. Robust Porter [65]
Black Watch Cream Porter (Portland Brewing)-Gold. Brown Porter [32]
Sofa King Stout (West Brothers, Eugene)-Gold. Foreign-style Stout [28]
Space Stout (Laurelwood Pub, Portland)-Bronze. Foreign-style Stout [28]
Hopasaurus Rex (Steelhead, Eugene)-Gold. Other Strong Ale [34]
Hearthside Wheat Wine (Steelhead, Eugene)-Silver. Other Strong Ale [34]
California took the largest number of medals with 23 (10 Golds),
followed by Colorado with 21 (3 Golds). The complete list of winners is
at:
http://realbeer.com/spotlight/gabf2001/gabfresults2001.html
ARTICLES FROM THE REAL BEER PAGE
BRITISH BEER CONSUMPTION HITS 30-YEAR LOW
The amount of beer drunk in Britain has sunk to a 30-year low because of
a rising demand for wine and spirits, a survey suggests. Beer
consumption has fallen steadily year on year, dropping by 3.7 percent in
2000 alone, figures indicate. Meanwhile sales of wine shot up by 8.5
percent last year, and sales of spirits rose by 2 percent, according to
the survey published in The Publican newspaper. Despite this, on an
average day in Britain, almost 27 million pints of beer are brewed and
29 million drunk--six times more than the amount of wine consumed and
"way, way more than spirits" according to industry experts.
BUD LIGHT NEW KING OF U.S. BEERS
Budweiser, long the Number 1 selling beer in America, has been
toppled--by its low calorie sibling, Bud Light. Both beers are produced
by Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis. Market Watch, a spirits industry
publication, reports that Bud Light has eclipsed Budweiser for the first
time since the light beer was introduced in 1982. Budweiser continues to
be the top-selling beer in the world. Bud Light's volume is expected to
increase by 7 percent this year to 33.6 million barrels, while Bud's is
on track to dip about 2 percent to 32.5 million barrels. The
reduced-calorie brew has grown from a 6 percent U.S. market share in
1990 to an estimated 16.8 percent share in 2001. The change is part of
an overall trend. In 2000, light beer accounted for 44 percent of all
the malt beverages consumed in the United States.
SCIENTISTS FIND BEER MAY HELP FIGHT CANCER
Scientists in Japan have discovered that chemicals in beer can help
fight off cancer. Researchers from Okayama University in western Japan
fed a cancer-causing chemical to genes of the salmonella bacteria, which
usually leads the genes to mutate as the first stage of developing
cancer. The team freeze-dried beer to separate ingredients and gave each
of them to the salmonella genes, finding that at least six of the
materials prevented the genes from mutating.
ALE CASK WHISKY
Scotland's Caledonian Brewery and the makers of Glenfiddich have come
together for a little project. Ale Cask Reserve is a beer-tinged whisky.
Michael Jackson explains why this is one way of cross-fertilizing two
great drinks.
http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-001588.html
TEACH A FRIEND TO HOMEBREW
The American Homebrewers Association's third annual Teach a Friend to
Homebrew Day is November 3. A Q&A with AHA Director Paul Gatza offers
tips for making it a successful day.
http://www.realbeer.com/spotlight/homebrewing/teachafriend.html
WORLD CLASS BREWERIES TO TURN IDEAS INTO BEER
Like lottery winners, Noel Blake of Portland, Oregon, and Scott Norviel
of Jackson Center, Ohio, can expect to be hearing from long lost beer
friends in the coming months. Brewery Ommegang and Anderson Valley
Brewing Company will be turning their respective ideas for great tasting
beers into actual beers, and the winners receive 10 cases each of beer.
Ommegang will make a "strong Belgian ale with a burnished cherrywood
color" for Blake, while Anderson Valley will brew a "toast almond
porterä that smells like ãwarm toasted almonds with cinnamon and vanilla
overtones." They earned the beer for their ideas and descriptions in
Realbeer.com's Create a Great Beer contest. Read more about their beers
and why the judges liked them best at:
http://www.realbeer.com/contest/winners.html
MANY CONSUMERS FIND THAT BEER, WINE MIX
A national survey comparing wine and beer consumers finds that the
market profile for those who enjoy these beverages is much the same. The
National Beer Survey found that premium beer and wine drinkers share the
features of being younger, earning a higher income, and holding a higher
education level than the rest of the adult population. Both serious beer
and wine drinkers are found mainly in the coastal rather than inland
sections of the country. The survey indicates that beer and wine
drinkers are most often the same people. People who drink beer consume
more than three-quarters of the wine and nearly three-quarters of the
beer is consumed by drinkers of wine.
http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001602.html
MOYLANDERS DOUBLE IPA WINS ALPHA KING CHALLENGE
Moylanders Double IPA from Moylan Brewing Co. in Novato, California, was
chosen as new Alpha King during competition conducted in Denver at the
same time as the Great American Beer Festival. Three Floyds Brewing
Company of Munster, Indiana, conducted the Alpha King Challenge at the
Falling Rock Tap House, pitting some of the hoppiest beers in the
country against each other. Beers were scored on their hoppiness,
balance, and drinkability. Three Floyds flagship beer is known as Alpha
King.
HISTORY LESSON
from Kendall Staggs
The Importance of Homebrewing in Colonial Virginia
I recently shared the following story with my students in Colonial
American History at Linfield College. John Hammond, an Englishman,
wrote a pamphlet in 1656 about the quality of life in colonial
Virginia. Life was very good there, it seems, except for one serious
problem. He wrote:
The Country is exceedingly replenished with Cattle, Hogs, Goats, and
Tame-fowl. It is full of gallant Orchards, and the fruit generally more
luscious and delightful than here in England. Grapes in infinite
manners grow wild, as do Walnuts, Chestnuts, and an abundance of
excellent Plums and Berries, some not growing in England. Grain they
have, both English and Indian, for Bread and Beere.
Beere is indeed in some places constantly drunken; yet in some others,
nothing but Water and Milk. That is where the Goodwives (if I may so
call them) are negligent and idle; for it is not for want of Grain to
make Malt with (for the Country affords enough), but because they are
slothful and careless. I hope this item will shame them out of those
habits, so that they will be judged by their drink, what kind of
Housewives they are.
