News
AABG logos
We have the AABG logo in a variety of formats. Members may download and use these logos to label beers, make name tags, meeting signs, and similar uses. Largish B&W logo (595 x 595) B&W AABG logo in Microsoft word Read more
Shops
Source for inexpensive vanilla beans
Matt Goebel writes: The spot online where I bulk ordered the ugly, but cheaper, vanilla beans is : http://www.comorosvanillabeans.com/specials.htm and looks under specials for Grade B beans. If you didn’t get a chance to taste his vanilla mead (18 beans Read more
Poll
Which meeting maps do you use?
Recently, Steve Darnell, our stalwart newsletter editor, asked me whether he should continue to create maps for the web site, or whether we should just use the Google map. Clearly, there’s some work involved in making the map that is Read more
meetings
January meeting
The January meeting will be at Randy deBeauclair’s (the home of the BBBW) on Friday, January 11, starting at 7:30. Randys house is brown brick/tan siding, and at the top of a steep driveway. Park in the driveway, (it is Read more
meetings
December meeting
The December meeting will be at Rolf Wucherer’s on Friday Dec 14. We’re going to attempt a webcam hookup to the South Carolina annex during the meeting. Read all about it.
News
Corner Brewery Thanksgiving weekend “meeting”
Jim and Wendy Suchy drove 800 miles from South Carolina. A bunch of us drove much less than that to the Corner Brewery on Friday for a warm, friendly get-together.
Recipe
Bourbon barrel barleywine (BBBW)
In April of 2006, AABG members got together to fill our newly acquired bourbon barrel with barleywine. 11 5-gallon batches of the same recipe (see below) were brewed by members in order to fill the barrel. Since then, we have taken some out for sampling at AABG meetings, some members have withdrawn their 5 gallon share, and other members have added newly fermented beer (from the same recipe.) Every time we taste it, the beer is different. It has consistent oaky/vanilla aroma, some bourbon flavor, and a modicum of tartness. Sometimes it is sweeter, sometimes more sour, but always interesting.