Congratulations to UNYHA winners in the First Round of the National Homebrew Competition. Good luck in the finals!
Paul Guarracini
3rd place, Irish Red Ale (9d)
Tom Ocque
1st place, Northern English Brown Ale (11c)
2nd place, Fruit Beer (20a)
John Zelazny
1st place, Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer (21b) &mdsash; this was also the 1st Place BOS winner in UNYHA 33!
2nd place, Strong Scotch Ale (9e)
Please see the April 2010 Monthly Mash Newsletter for the latest UNYHA news!
Alan Mack will be taking orders for embroidered UNYHA clothing at the next meeting on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Please bring in your completed UNYHA Hat and Shirt Order Form and cash or check to the meeting. This will be the only order for this year, so it’s now or not-quite-never. Any questions? Contact Alan at amack@rochester.rr.com
Mike Kidulich took some great photos of the judging at Rohrbach’s during our competition on March 27th — Thanks, Mike!
We’re seeing a LOT of new user registrations on the site and, unfortunately, we’re unsure if a lot of them are linked to actual people or spam. If everyone could please take a moment to log in and update their user profiles to include their full names, it would be a great help towards weeding out the cruft.
Due to the recent competition, many of these new users may be legitimate but, from email address and user names it’s sometimes hard to tell. I’ve been trying to keep up by removing the obvious spam but, sometimes, I’m unsure (especially when people use Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail accounts).
To clarify, registering with the site will only allow you to post comments (you’re not joining UNYHA or getting any other rights) — at this point. In the future, I’d like to expand the functionality of the site to include Forums, Classifieds, etc and these will all require (verified) user accounts. But, for now, taking 10 seconds to log in and update your profile information will be greatly appreciated.
Results from the UNYHA 32nd Annual/21st New York State Open Homebrew Competition are now available. It was a very successful competition, with 284 entries from New York state and all over the country. Some of you in particular really cleaned up; congratulations to you. Our Best-in-Show beer winner, John Zelazny, will have his award-winning spiced Christmas beer brewed at Rohrbach’s on Buffalo Road, surely in time for the holiday it honors. Congratulations also to our second Best of Show winner, Ben Maeso, with his Schwarzbier, and to Eric Crombach, our third Best of Show, with his Doppelbock. Lastly, congratulations are decidedly in order for Alan Mack for his Best of Show cider! Please check out our Sponsors Page and consider patronizing the businesses that made our competition possible. Thanks to all who contributed in any way to this successful event!
Our annual post-competition banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27th, at Rohrbach’s brewery at 97 Railroad Street near the Rochester Public Market.
$20 buys you a buffet dinner consisting of garden salad, baked pasta with cheese, meatballs, roasted potatoes, roasted chicken, and pulled pork.
Since we’re dining at the production brewery, we won’t be able to buy Rohrbach’s beer by the glass, but never fear – the club will be supplying beer, and you may feel free to bring your own as well!
All the winners will be announced at the banquet, and those present will be awarded ribbons. (Out-of-town non-UNYHA members will get their prizes then too. Score sheets and certificates will be mailed out in a timely fashion.) And much merriment will be had by all!
Please let Kira Barnes (kiracalico@gmail.com) know if you will be attending by Wednesday the 24th at 9 a.m. You may pay at the event or use PayPal via our website, or you may mail us your check at UNYHA, P.O. Box 23541, Rochester, NY 14692.
March 13, 2010 — To the brewer who subimitted 2 bottles each of a brew cap-labeled “AG” and “PU” – with no accompanying paperwork or money – contact Tina at tweymann@hselaw.com or 585.482.3346 now!
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Please see the March 2010 Monthly Mash newsletter for the latest UNYHA news!
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.
