Ann Arbor Brewers Guild

The September meeting will be held at Jeff Renner’s on September 14, starting at 7:30. The featured style is India Pale Ale. See the September Newsletter for more details.

Hopman’s Beer and Wine Making Supply
Rick Hopman
4636 W. Walton bvld
Waterford, Mi 48329-3535
(248) 674 4677

Hours of business
Wed - Fri: 1:00 - 7:30
Sat: 10:00 - 6:00
Sun: 10:00 - 4:00

The August meeting will be at Roger’s. See “Where’s the meeting?” or the August newsletter for details.

The Michigan State Fair Homebrew Competition is coming up quickly. Details can be found on the MSFHBC website.

We have been asked to help out by sponsoring a category. We usually give some money in support of the competition, so this would be a way to increase the visibility of that contribution. Sponsorship is $100. What do you think?

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Chris Frey writes, by email:

As they prepared to announce the winner of the Gold Medal for American Pale Ale, with 388 entered into the National Committee(the largest of any style entry), Janis Gross, AHA competition director stated “If you win this, you’re an awesome brewer”…and then they announced Bob & Kim Barrett won!

Our table of Michigan natives hooped and hollered as Bob buried his face into his hands, overwhelmed with emotion. I can assure you he is riding high and we are all so proud and happy for both of them!

Along with the Gold Medal, they won a beginners brewing system and an extract Nut Brown Ale recipe - go figure!

The July meeting of the AABG (Beer-BQ) is Saturday
the 21st (note: 3rd Saturday) and will be hosted by Steve Darnell.
See the map and directions, or download the newsletter.

Families are invited and welcomed. The Beer-BQ is our annual celebration, and is open only to AABG members, their families and friends.
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Best of show in the Arbor Brewing / Corner Brewing “Brews Crews” competition went to Jason Pruette for his Ale-n-Dog Alt Blind. We understand that Jason and Matt will probably be brewing this in August.

The list of first round winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) is available online.

Best of Show first runner-up was Bob Barrett’s Oberon Clone, and second runner-up was John Rathmell’s Realm of Osmodius Imperial Stout.

Brewers

The two attached photos are of imperial stout a friend and I brewed, 15 hours and 22 hours after pitching.
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AABG has a new web home. Please bookmark aabg.org.

We will be rolling out some new features, to give you a more dynamic web home. AABG members will be able to contribute content directly, so you won’t have to rely on the webmasters’ schedule and time available. You can search all postings on the site (but not the newsletters, at least not yet) using the convenient search box on every page.

The newsletter archive has already been migrated. Use the convenient link to the left to see the map to this month’s meeting, or to download old newsletters.

Until we get all the content moved over, you can use the “Old AABG Site” link, in the “Blogroll” on the home page, to find old content.

The HBD server will continue to host our mailing list.

Without creating an account and logging in, you can read content on the site.

If you create an account and log in, you can make comments on most of the pages on the site. To create an account, use the “Register” link on the home page.

If you wish to create new content, please email webmaster@aabg.org to get your account upgraded. Once you’ve done so, you can use the “Site Admin” link on the home page to write content.

You can always get back to the home page by clicking on the AABG logo or the title at the top of the page.