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| December 1999 | Fermental Order of Renaissance Draughtsmen | Vol. 7 - No. 12 |
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The next meeting will be held back at Sisko's
in Taylor on Tuesday, December 14th. Sisko's is located on Monroe (between Telegraph and Southfield), just south of Vanborn.
Their address is 5855 Monroe and their phone number is 313-278-5340. Sisko's also has a website at
http://www.siskos.com/. The competition for this month is Stouts.
As usual, the thirsty hard-core who want dinner will start arriving around 5PM, people will drift in for an hour or so,
and we will start our meeting around 6PM.
The winners from our Stout competition are:
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| Place | Name | Style | Points |
| 1 | Craig Rinkel | Foreign Stout | 41/50 |
| 2 | Jim Racine | Sweet Stout | 39/50 |
| 3 | Tony Tantillo | Dry Stout | 38/50 |
| HM | Gary Shewchuk | Dry Stout | 36/50 |
| HM | Bob & Kim Barrett | Dry Stout | 35/50 |
This month's competition will be "My Barley Doesn't Whine" barleywine competition (AHA), category #1 a & b. Upcoming competitions, including the schedule for 2000, may be found later in this newsletter.
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| Sue finds her tall dark (and handsome?) stranger... | Hand over the belgian triple or I'll shoot! |
For all those masochists who run Linux or some
other Unix like operating system on their desktop computers at home, a
new homebrew brewing recipe calculator ,QBrew, is available. This program, written by David Johnson
(arandir@meer.net), can be found at its home page,
www.meer.net/~arandir/code.html. The file for the most
current version file is qbrew.tar.gz. The most current version is 0.1.0. You will also need the Qt 2.0 library installed
on your system. This library is available from Troll Tech, www.troll.no.
Compiling the program is simple and worked easily on my Red Hat Linux v6.1 system at home.
As to the program itself, please look at the screenshot below. The user can calculate original gravity for all grain mashes, extracts, and everything in between. Hop bitterness is also calculated using Rager's correction for gravity. Utilization factors are from Noonan's book on Lager brewing. The hop utilization rates can be changed by editing a file. Similarly if you don't like a grain extract efficiency or want to add one that the program doesn't have, you can edit the same file. Of course you can change or add grain or hop types in individual recipes ( i.e. you are not limited to the drop down list in the program.
I tested the program against several recipes that I had brewed in the past year and a half. The expected original gravities compare well to what I had calculated by hand. Usually the values were within 0.001. The program seems to give higher IBU values than what I had calculated. This is probably because I calculated the IBU values using a different method and/or different utilization factors.
Anyway, this program is well worth a look for those using a Unix or Unix-like operating system.
St. Louis, MO - Anheuser-Busch is ringing in the holidays with
a campaign to increase awareness of, and reward adults for, their efforts to be a designated driver. The campaign kicks off November 22, 1999, with the
"Budweiser Designated Driver Holiday Sweepstakes," which runs through January 1, 2000.
To participate in the sweepstakes, adults 21 and older can enter by calling 1-888-460-6464 or visiting: www.beeresponsible.com. Prizes include a 2000 Ford Explorer XLS Sport, trips to Sea World or Busch Gardens and random prizes such as hats and T-shirts that promote the concept of designated drivers with the slogan, "It's not a party without me... I'm the Designated Driver".
"It's our way of saying thank you, and rewarding those people who choose or volunteer to be a designated driver," said Francine Katz, Anheuser-Busch vice president of Consumer Affairs. "We're making the idea of being a designated driver fun and delivering the message to adults in a way that encourages them to make a difference in the fight against drunk driving."
The poll, conducted by the Data Development Corporation, shows that more than 91% of the public endorse the designated driver as a good or excellent way to curb drunk driving. In addition, 109 million American adults have either been a designated driver themselves, or have been driven home by one.
Across the nation, designated drivers are making a difference. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, drunk driving fatalities are at their lowest levels since the government began tracking in 1982. Drunk driving fatalities among adults declined 41 percent since 1982. Among teens, drunk driving fatalities have plunged 65 percent. Further, the percentage of teens (ages 12-17) who report having a drink in the past month was 45 percent lower in 1998 than 1982, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Seattle, WA - Tired of champagne shortages? Looking for
a unique and refreshing alternative? Merchant du Vin (MdV), first introduced Lindemans Kriek (black cherry) lambic to U.S. beer consumers in 1979, "the
first fruit ale ever marketed in this country," says MdV's national sales manager Alan Shapiro. "For the last twenty years Lindemans Farm Brewery has
continued to be the market leader in both sales volume and innovation - having introduced Framboise (raspberry), Peche (peach), and most recently
Cassis (black currant)," said Shapiro.
Lambic beer is perhaps the most unique among all beer styles. Wort comprised of 60% malted barley, 40% unmalted wheat, and aged hops is spontaneously fermented with a wild yeast which resides in Belgium's Senne River Valley. After several months in oak barrels, the juice from fresh fruit is added which reacts with the yeast (still active in the beer) to create a secondary fermentation, similar to methode champenoise champagne. After several more months of aging, the beer is packaged in 25-liter kegs or 12 and 25.4 ounce cork-finished bottles. This unique fermentation process combined with the use of real fruit juice yields an extraordinary beer more akin to champagne or sparkling cider.
Founded in 1811, Lindemans Farm Brewery, is one of the last remaining true practitioners of this ancient art. It has been named "One of the Top 10 Breweries in the World," at the World Beer Championships for five consecutive years. Merchant du Vin imports the full range of Lindemans lambics. Dial up: www.merchantduvin.com for more info.
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