Upstate New York Homebrewers Association

UNYHA’s 32nd Annual/21st New York State Open Homebrew Competition

Kira Barnes — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:09:57 +0000

All,

Our annual homebrewing competition is coming up, with judging to be held on March 27th at Rohrbach’s downtown location, 97 Railroad Street. If you are interested in entering, judging, stewarding, or otherwise participating, please see our Competitions Page for more information.

Email addresses to contact competition staff:

Competition organizer: Kira Barnes kiracalico@gmail.com
Judge director: Tina Weymann tweymann@hselaw.com
Chief steward: Debbie Ofslager dofslager@rochester.rr.com
Prize coordinator: Steve Zoller steve.zoller@att.net

Meeting Location – March 10, 2010

Anthony Parcero — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:50:44 +0000

The monthly UNYHA meeting will be held at Merchants Grill on March 10th at 7:30pm. For everyone wishing to enter the our annual UNYHA competition (and join us for the banquet), please make sure to bring your completed entry forms and payment.

Pub of the Month at Rohrbach Brewing Co

Kira Barnes — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:28:51 +0000

The Pub of the Month for February will be Wednesday, February 17 at Rohrbach Brewing Co., 3859 Buffalo Road. We will be accepting entries for our competition at that meeting, if there are any of you early birds out there. Remember, 2 bottles per entry, 10-17 ounce with no labels. $6 per two bottle entry, payable to UNYHA.

Question from a winemaker

Tina Weymann — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:46:27 +0000

A colleague’s husband is looking for a good local source for buying NYS grape juice for winemaking (especially for white wines). I believe he had been purchasing juice from Randall Standish and wasn’t satisfied with the quality. Any recommendations?

off topic: music

Tina Weymann — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:55:07 +0000

Brewsters, cider and mead makers:

Y’all know I love music, so check out LambikLady’s playlists on Rhadpsody.com’s Playlist Central. Look for LambikLady’s Choice 1 thru 5. If I get enough complaints about my bad taste in music, I promise I’ll publish more. See ya at the January meeting. P.S. I’ll have a couple of espresso imperial stouts in hand.

LambikLady

Sierra Nevada Beer Camp #14 Baltic Porter Tasting

tommyok — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:31:47 +0000

That’s right! The Sierra Nevada Baltic Porter tasting will be Sunday Jan 17th 6:30 PM at the Old Toad. The Baltic Porter is a 7.35% ABV beer with 2 different molasses varieties, star anise, several European malts and fermented with a lager yeast. I hope to see you all there! Did I mention that it is really tasty? Thomas Ocque

Whole grains…

Anthony Parcero — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:33:26 +0000

Ian Adams (iadams@rochester.rr.com) writes: “I purchased a barley crusher mill for my father for christmas. Do you know where I can point him to buy 50lb sacks of uncrushed grains in the Rochester area?”

Any help folks?

December Monthly Mash Newsletter

Anthony Parcero — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:21:23 +0000

Please see the latest Monthly Mash newsletter for the latest UNYHA news!

New User Registration

Anthony Parcero — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:52:56 +0000

We’re seeing a lot of bogus user registrations on the site (people coming from .ru addresses, etc.). If everyone could take a little time to add personal information (especially your names!) it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

UNYHA December BJCP Meeting – Christmas/Holiday & Winter Seasonals

Deron Weet — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:29:03 +0000

Hi everyone,

This month’s BJCP session will be held Wednesday, December 2nd, at 7:00 p.m. at The Old Toad (277 Alexander St.)

We will be covering Christmas/Holiday beers and Winter Warmers/Seasonals (sort of a blend of categories 16E (Belgian Specialty Ale), and 21 (Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer – Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer). This session will aim to be a bit more casual than a normal one, more of a Holiday beer tasting and discussion on the large variety of interpretations available.

We will be asking for a donation to help cover the cost of the session. This will be determined by attendance, but shouldn’t exceed more than $5/person. If anyone has a homebrewed example of a beer that falls into this “category”, we encourage you to bring it for judging.

We are hoping to get a somewhat accurate head count of the number of attendees, so if you have the slightest interest in attending, AND/OR if you are coming and are planning on bringing a commercial example to contribute to the lineup please send an e-mail to dcweet@gmail.com no later than Tuesday, December 1st, just so I know how much beer to bring.

Beer list (subject to some slight changes/additions; these will definitely be there):

> Samuel Smith Winter Welcome
> Anchor Our Special Ale
> Goose Island Christmas Ale
> Jenlain Biere De Noel (2008)
> Avery Old Jubilation
> Affligem Noel
> St. Bernardus Christmas Ale (2008)
> Delirium Noel
> Troegs The Mad Elf
> Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus

Have a great Thanksgiving, and we hope to see you on the 2nd.