June Meeting Topic: Fruit Beers

June 24, 2010 · Posted in Meetings · Comment

During our June meeting, we covered the topic of fruit beers. Below is Kevin Kozlen’s presentation on the topic.

Fruit beers

We tried commercial examples of several fruit beers which include raspberries, cherries, peaches, apricots, and strawberries.

Additionally, for our show and tell, Fred brought a beer gun and explained how it was used to bottle kegged beers. At the July meeting we’ll cover meads, and it’s also one of the AHA Club-only competitions, so if you’ve got a mead, bring it and we’ll select one to send off to the competition.

AHA Big Brew: Celebrating National Homebrew Day

April 25, 2010 · Posted in Events · Comment

In 1988, May 7th was announced before the U.S. Congress as National Homebrew Day. In celebration of this, people from around the world have been participating in AHA’s Big Brew Day on the first Saturday of May since 2001. In 2001, 5,185 gallons of beer were brewed at 182 brewing sites by 1,864 participants worldwide. In 2009, more than 5,000 people celebrated National Homebrew Day brewing over 13,000 gallons at 342 sites on six continents worldwide. Sites were registered in 47 states and Puerto Rico, as well as Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Israel, Kenya, The Netherlands, Russia, and Switzerland.

The Association of Bloomington-Normal Brewers will be participating this year with brewing demonstrations on Saturday, May 1st at Dan Taylor’s house. We’ll be brewing and answering questions about homebrewing from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm. If you’ve never brewed before, come out an lend a hand. Although we will not be serving homebrew at this event, come out to the next meeting of the ABNormal Brewers if you want to try some. We meet on the 2nd Monday of every month. See our calendar for details.

If you’re not from the Bloomington-Normal area, check out the AHA’s website for a site near you!

Club-Only Competitions

April 17, 2010 · Posted in Annoucements · Comment

During March and April’s meetings, the ABNormal Brewers conducted some informal tastings of club members’ beers in order to select the best beer for the AHA Club-Only Competitions. March’s beer style was American Ales. Five different club members entered a total of 6 beers. Ed Embree took first place. Four different club members entered April’s competition (extract beers) Ed Embree took first place again with his Dunkel. The club will reimburse Ed for entry fees and shipping costs to submit his beers to the National Competitions.

The next Club-Only Competition will be Mead. Entries are due at the end of July so we will select the best Mead from our club during the July meeting.

Please see the club’s beer style schedule for other upcoming club-only competitions and get your beers ready!

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