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Billy Beeson Rolls His Way Into the Sam Adams Longshot Semis!!!

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Samuel Adams LongshotBest of Luck to our own Billy Beeson as he advances as one of nine national semi finalists for the Samuel Adams Longshot 2014 Homebrew Competition! Billy bested thousands of other entries to rise to the top 9 semi-finalists in the country with his epic Java Lava (Vietnamese Coffee Sweet Stout). If Billy wins he will have his likeness plastered on bottles of Sam Adams version of his beer which would be distributed nationwide.

If you see Billy congratulate him on this huge accomplishment and wish him the best of luck in the semi-finals!

Good Luck Billy!!!

Rock Hoppers Quarterly Club Competition – Pale Ales/IPAs at the July 10 Meeting!

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Don’t forget about the meeting on Thursday, July 10th! It’s the American Pale Ale/India Pale Ale quarterly club competition.

Make sure you bring out at least a growler’s worth (or 3 12 oz bottles) of those American pale hoppy beers to the meeting.

The winner gets a $50 gift card to Castle Rock Homebrew Supply.

Good luck!

2014 Buddy Brew Teams Chosen!!! (Now Get Brewing!)

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Buddy BrewAfter weeks of careful deliberation, the white smoke has risen from the Vatican chimney and the 2014 Buddy Brew teams have been chosen!

Please find your buddy brew partner below and start working on any recipe you would like to brew which contains less than 5% alcohol.

Good luck to everyone, but most importantly, have fun and use this as an opportunity to teach each other something about making better beer. Look for an email to follow with everyone’s email information so you can make initial contact (because I didn’t want everyone’e email blasted all over the interwebs).

2014 Buddy Brew Teams:

  • Shawn Keller – Jim Denier
  • Greg Topay – Michael Bade
  • Scott Lamm – Doug Thiel
  • Mike Bostwick – Mark Jeffries
  • George Delena – Jeff Gilbertson
  • Matt Lawlor – Kjell Wygant
  • Mike Roth – Andy Honker
  • David Marsh – Brian Pramov
  • Rob Kausch – Bryan Keas
  • Scott Douris – Chris Huser
  • Ken Anderson – Geoff Humphrey
  • James/Jasmine Devalois – Billy Beeson
  • Josh Given – Matt Linnenberger
  • Peter Baggus – Eric Seufert

The Rock Hoppers are Not the 2014 Ace of Clubs

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HPD logoYes, unfortunately despite a valiant effort by several homebrewers, the Rock Hopper came up shy of winning the Ace of Clubs award for 2014.  But hey, what good is putting funny slogans on the trophy if nobody else gets to read them right?  Anyway, several Rock Hoppers continued to define how homebrewing is supposed to be done and walked away with some ribbons for their efforts, in fact, the Rock Hoppers came away with as many ribbons as the Ace of Clubs winning homebrew club and only lost due to judging and stewarding points.  Congrats to the following Rock Hoppers:

Jason Kruegel:

  • 3rd Pilsner,  “Purple Dog Pilsner”
  • 4th Dark Lager,  “Eat My Schwarz”

Kelly Kruegel:

  • 3rd Bock, “Arctic Chi”
  • 3rd Belgian and French Ale, “Monk with a Woody”
  • 3rd Belgian Strong Ale, “CoopSauce”

Matthew Linnenburger:

  • 3rd Light Hybrid Beer, “Summer Days”
  • 2nd Amber Hybrid Beer, “Alternate Universe”

Bryan Keas:

  • 2nd English Pale Ale, “Bryan’s Bitter”
  • 1st Fruit Beer, “Blue Balls”