Need a reason to fight the crowds on Black Friday? Sunset Hydroponics & Home Brewing will be offering 10% off everything in the store from 9am until 8pm.
UNYHA Members who present their card at the time of the sale receive an additional 10% club discount.
While supplies last, they are also offering a “Keg Special”, as well: if you buy a CO2 tank and regulator, you’ll get a Cornelius Keg for free!
Greetings, beerlings -
Preparing for the long, cold season ahead, I just made my annual mid-November stock-up trip to Southtown Beverage. Pablo (my new cube) did a nice job of fitting in quite a few cases of the good stuff but I’d have bought even more if I still had Sally the Summit wagon…
Our good friends at Southtown were, as always, eager to please, filling up boxes of assorted bombers and pointing out all those special “off code” deals. I felt a bit like the proverbial little old lady at the end, having not one, not two, but three handsome, attentive guys loading up my Pablo till he couldn’t hold much more than another 5 or 6 cases…
OK, so here were just a few of my purchases today:
Goose Island “Harvest” for a ridiculously low price. This perfectly balanced dry-hopped ale is, as dear Michael Jackson would say, “moreish” – not over-the-top, and you just want more, more, more.
Also from Goose Island a bomber of their Christmas Ale (Deron: I’ll bring this to your December BJCP session; no clue about the “style”).
On sale from Sierra Nevada: 2009 Harvest Ale (I bought S’Town out on this one, but I’m willing to share…) and Celebration Ale, always a favorite. Dog, I love hops!!
Stone “Leviathan” – can you believe $5 for a 6-pack?
A case of Clipper City’s “Red Sky at Night” saison style, one of my favorites (from Baltimore).
From Boulder Brewing, “Hazed & Infused” (12-oz. bottles) and “Mojo Risin’” (bombers, at a fantastic price).
Dogfish Head – S’Town has LOTS of great stuff from DFH. I took home a 4-pack of “Midas Touch” and a large bottle of the lovely unfiltered “Squall IPA.”
Don’t tell anybody … S’Town has some incredible deals ($5) on some Unibroue favorites: Ephemere, Seigneur, Fin du Monde, and Maudite (I bought their last few bottles of that one, it’s my fav from Unibroue).
Southtown also has some shockingly low prices on selections from Magic Hat and a bunch of others.
Well, I’m ready for winter.
Are you?
Tina
In May & June 2004 my husband and I had a wonderful vacation in Europe. Here are some photos taken in Belgium:
Den Trollekelder in Gent
The “Troll Cellar” is one of the many quaint little beer bars in my favorite place in the whole world. Their beer list doesn’t quite live up to the decor, though, so on to…
Hanssen's Oude Gueuze - Kaffe de Hopduvel in Gent
The Hopduvel, which had an extensive beer menu, and of course I had to start out with this fine gueuze.
Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant in Gent
Brewery museum at De Halve Maan in Bruges
Belgium’s hops capital is Poperinge, in West-Vlaanderen. There I enjoyed some Poperinges Hommelbier at a pleasant cafe…
A cafe in Poperinge
… and we toured the hops museum.
The hops museum in Poperinge
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Does anyone have any ideas as to what type of photos (beer/homebrew related) they would like to see on this site? I have a few interesting beer photos that I would not mind sharing. Some pictures have people directly or indirectly shown. Are there any specific “rules” for posting pictures of people with beer? Has there ever been a “Family UNYHA” picture taken? If so, when? Should we try one in the future?
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Title: UNYHA Annual Oktoberfest Party
Location: Wadham Lodge, Powder Mill Park
When: Saturday, October 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m..
Where: Wadham Lodge, Powder Mill Park
Who to contact: Alan Mack (amack@rochester.rr.com), Thomas Barnes (thomasbarnes@frontiernet.net)
Price: $8 for adults, free admission for kids. $6 for 1 dozen clams (and butter).
It’s getting closer to the time for the UNYHA Annual Oktoberfest Party!
Please RSVP Thomas Barnes by email, or phone (328-0148) no later than Thursday, October 15th. Tickets are available for sale or pick-up at the October BJCP session and the Monthly Meeting. If you’ve reserved tickets, you can pick them up and pay for them on the day of the event.
Basic admission price includes sausage, hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, rolls, condiments, soft drinks, and beer from CB’s and Rohrbach’s. We need people for clean up, set up, beer-fetching/set-up (one each for Rohrbach’s and CBs), and someone with a clam steamer set-up to be clam cook.
Please bring a dish to pass which will serve about 8 people.
Homebrew Contest:
Please bring at least a growler or the equivalent of a 6-pack if you wish to enter the contest. Multiple entries encouraged. We will supply the pitchers.
Chili Cook-Off
Games: Bocci, Boochie, Ladderball, Horseshoes, Croquet, Kids activities will be provided as well. Dana Edgell will be organizing kids activities. Possibly Beer Olympics, if we can find an organizer.
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