Kim T.
What’s happening with the Lincoln Lagers?
- The February Social will be held on Thursday, Febr. 23, at Bierhaus Maisschäler. Show up after 6 for a beverage and conversation. No agenda. Just beer.
- The Monthly March Meeting: Thursday, March 2, at Cosmic Eye Brewing. 6 o’clock for happy hour and 7 for business. Bring some homebrew!
- The March Social is scheduled for Saturday, March 18, at Stone Hollow Brewing in Beatrice. More details to come in the next Brewsletter.
FeBREWary meeting at Cosmic Eye
Where: Cosmic Eye, 6800 P St #300, Lincoln, NE, 68505, 531.500.2739
See More Beer Stuff in the Febrewary Brewsletter
You want to know more, right?! Go to the Club Brewsletters tab on the homepage. Then look for the first entry – For the latest news – and you’ll find the link for the February edition. Or you could also just click right here. In the Brewsletter, you’ll find stories on the following items:
- Meet our new president – Scott Levander
- BJCP Study Group Update – Vice President Craig Samek
- The 2023 Nebraska Shootout – What you should be brewing!
- Local beer brewing odds ‘n’ ends: Cosmic Eye, Patriot Homebrew Supply and events on the Nebraska Craft Brewers Guild’s website
- In the local and national news: Nonalcohol Beer, San Diego’s Homebrew Con, and KC Bier Meisters Annual Comp
Cheers!
Update: 1/29/2023
Lincoln Lagers Night at the Stars
Friday, Jan. 20: SOLD OUT
Here’s how you can pick up your tickets!
- Thursday evening, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., at Code Brewing.
- Friday evening, Jan. 20, 6 p.m., southwest corner of the Ice Box.
- Friday – during the day – call Kim T. at 531.218.4778
February Meeting: Thursday, 2.2.23, Cosmic Eye Brewing Company
Monthly Meeting and Potluck Holiday Gathering – Cosmic Eye Brewing!
When: Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, brief business at 7 o’clock.
Where: Cosmic Eye, 6800 P St #300, Lincoln, NE, 68505, 531.500.2739
HAPPY NEW BEER! Join us at Cosmic Eye Brewing for the monthly meeting and annual potluck holiday party. Bring a covered dish or dessert. Bring some homebrew too! Bring a bottle for the bottle exchange. The 50/50 and more!
OFFICER ELECTIONS: We’ll be announcing the results of the 2023 officer elections. If you didn’t get the email, contact us right away. Voting will end on Wednesday, Jan. 4, at 11:59 p.m.
IT’S TIME TO RENEW: Dues for 2023 are currently $25 for the calendar year. If you want to renew online, the 2023 link on the website will be active by our meeting time.
- Nebraska Shoot-Out Styles
- BJCP study group will get started soon.
- Night at the Stars – Hockey… Did you get your ticket?
- The quarterly contest with 402s
- Nebraska Brewers Guild’s Calendar of Events – lots o’ beer stuff coming soon!
- Next meeting at Cosmic Eye Brewing on February 2, 2023!
- Click here to see the latest edition and get access to past Brewsletters!
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Cheers! Happy new beer to all!
Update: Jan. 1, 2023
Monthly Meeting for December: Lee’s Chicken
Where: Lee’s Chicken, 1940 W Van Dorn St, Lincoln, NE, 68522, 402.477.4339
Our January meeting/party date is confirmed: Saturday, Jan. 7, at Cosmic Eye. This will be a combination of the monthly meeting, renewing your membership, scoring your hockey tickets, and our annual holiday pot-luck get-together. Happy New Year!
What else is happening with your Lincoln Lagers?
- 2023 Officer Elections… The email for nominations is out!
- 2023 Nebraska Shootout… Lincoln Lagers are hosting. Styles are set!
- 402 Quarterly Contest… Imperial Stout & English Barleywine
- BJCP Study Group is forming.
- Monthly Social at Code on Thursday, Dec. 15.
- In January, we’ve reserved a private suite for a Lincoln Stars Hockey game!
- Kansas City Biermeisters annual comp opens registration on Dec. 1.
Additional details and more can be found by clicking here for Decembeer’s Brewsletter.
Hey! It’s almost the first Thursday of the month! See you at Cosmic Eye on the 3rd!
Where: Cosmic Eye Brewing, 6800 P Street, #300, Lincoln, NE 68505, 531.500.2739.In addition to sipping on some Cosmic Eye beer and your homebrew, we’ll be chatting about the Sower’s Cup. We’ll also talk about the 2023 Nebraska Shootout; the Lincoln Lagers are the hosts and we need to pick some categories. Plus… We are giving away a $25 gift card to Bottle Mark for custom bottle caps or labels… and some free memberships to American Homebrewer’s Association. Come to the meeting! You could be a lucky winner!
Speaking of the Sower’s Cup, Another successful year is in the books. Thank you to everybody who helped steward, judge, sort, pack, label, cook and clean up. It’s all about the people… and the homebrewed beer and mead and cider. We’re looking at Octobeer 6 & 7, 2023, for the next one. Save those dates!
In the meantime, here are some numbers for your review from this year’s Cup:
- 423 entries: 385 beers, 22 ciders/perries, 24 meads
- 91 entrants from 22 states
- 96 placing entries
- 44 judges
- 39 brew clubs
- Top Club Participation (entries)
- Kansas City Bier Meisters (68)
- Iowa Brewers Union (57)
- Lincoln Lagers (32)
- Denton County Homebrewers Guild (30)
- Homebrewers Local 402 (23)
- 24 judges
- Medals by Club (Top Five)
- Kansas City Bier Meisters (21)
- Iowa Brewers Union (11)
- Lincoln Lagers (8)
- North Georgia Malt Monkeys (8)
- Homebrewers Local 402 (7)
- Bests of Show
- Beer: Eric Martin & KCBM Barrel Project, Kansas City Bier Meisters, Wild Stout (28C: Wild Specialty Beer)
- Cider: Bill Boyer, North Georgia Malt Monkeys, The Ghost of Johnny Appleseed (C2B: Cider with Other Fruit)
- Mead: Bill Boyer, North Georgia Malt Monkeys, What is… Your Favorite Color? (M2C: Berry Mead)
For more information and to take a look at the medal winners for the 2022 Sower’s Cup, click here.
What else is happening in your homebrew club? Go back to the top and click on the club newsletters tab to read about the following:
- Category nominees for the 2023 Nebraska Shootout
- Patriot Homebrew Supply and Bearded Brewer are hosting a bottle-share event on Nov. 8.
- Quarterly contest with the Omaha 402 club
- Our monthly social will take place at Pour Craft Beer and Spirits on Thursday, Nov. 17.
- The Trub Zone talks about this website and why you should clean the schmutz off your competition bottles.
Got it? OK. If ya want, just click here and you’ll go straight to the Novembeer Brewsletter. Cheers!
For the full list of the 2022 Sower’s Cup medal winners, click here.
If you want to see your score sheets, log in to the website and you’ll your entries at the bottom of your account. Download the PDFs.
More coverage and information coming soon!
Thanks to everybody: judges, stewards, spouses, organizers, sponsors and contributors! We couldn’t do this without you!
Cheers!
It’s here! The 2022 Sower’s Cup!
We have over 400 homebrewed beer, cider and mead to judge and we need your help! We need four to six people to help out at the early judging sessions being held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11, and Wednesday, October 12. Eight to ten people to volunteer at the IBEW Hall by 6:00 p.m. Friday, October 14, to help out, and six to eight at both sessions — morning and afternoon — on Saturday, October 15. You will be fed before the judging sessions begin on Friday night and Saturday. (What are we eating? Info for volunteer meals is right here!)
To volunteer…
To sign up and help us, click right here and send us an email! Let us know if you can help and how to get a hold of you. Cheers and thank you very much!
The Banquet! Food and beer!
Join us on Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. for our annual Sower’s Cup beer-pairing dinner featuring an appetizer, salad, entrée and dessert, each paired with a special, locally brewed beer! Our caterer for the banquet meal is The Guilded Swine.
Here’s the menu and paired beers…
Appetizer: Chicken Pâté – Pâté/Cherry Mustard/Baguette
Beer: Stone Hollow’s Hefeweizen
Salad: Waldorf Salad – Greens/Apple/Walnuts/Celery RootBeer: Code’s Berry Lemon Sour
Entree: Pork Confit – Pork Belly/Potato Gratin/Seasonal Veg
Beer: Boiler’s West Coast IPA
Dessert: Sticky Toffee Pudding – Dates/Caramel
Beer: White Elm’s Barrel-aged Imperial Stout
The price is only $40 per person, with volunteers helping with 2 or more sessions receiving a $5 discount for each session completed. There is a maximum of 60 seats available. We’ve sold out in the past. Don’t wait.
To Reserve Your Banquet Seat(s)…
Still need more information! Check out the Sower’s Cup pages or contact the Lincoln Lagers right here and send us an email!
Here’s your quickie news update for the Lincoln Lagers!
- Monday, October 3: All Sower’s Cup entries are to be received by this date.
- Tuesday & Wednesday, October 4 & 5: Sorting & labeling entries at 6:00 p.m. at 1867 Bar, downtown Lincoln.
- Thursday, October 6: Monthly meeting at Cosmic Eye Brewing
- We’ll be talking about the Sower’s Cup, which is right around the corner.
- Judges & Stewards: Sign up for your session(s) here.
- Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct. 11 & 12: Early Sower’s Cup Judging Sessions… Turbine Flats… 6 p.m.
- Friday & Saturday, Oct. 14 & 15: Sower’s Cup judging, Banquet & Awards Ceremony.
Keep up on the Cup! Banquet details are coming! Click here for the web page.
Sower’s Cup Update!
We have reached our registration limit of 400 entries and would like the members to know that we will be increasing the total on Wednesday night, August 31. This will give you a few hours to stake claim to those spots before everyone else on Thursday morning. It will likely be 50 or fewer spots. We will not be increasing the total again if that number is reached.
If you were locked out of the competition site this week, the entry limit will be increased by 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, so make some time now to register your entries that evening.
Click here to register and check out the Sower’s Cup site. You must register first, then you can then enter your beer, mead or cider.
Monthly Meeting at Cosmic Eye Brewing Company
Where: Cosmic Eye Brewing, 6800 P Street, #300, Lincoln, NE 68505, 531.500.2739.It’s “Nebraska’s Most Heaviest Brewery” and we’re meeting there next week. Yes, we’re there again, and put it on the calendar for Octobeer and Novembeer. We’re trying a little ex-BEER-iment here. We haven’t met at the same place for four months in a row in a long, long time. It’s time and we’re going to make Cosmic Eye our home for a while. Thank you, Sam!
On the agenda for the evening will be the annual club picnic, the quarterly contest with the Omaha 402s, and the upcoming Sower’s Cup in October. For the contest with the 402s, the exact date is TBD (probably a later Sunday in September – we’re still waiting for them to respond). The fall quarter’s styles are cider and Vienna lager. If you have one or both of these styles, please let Patrick or Kim know. If we get more than a couple of each of these, we’ll set up an intra-club judging and send the best two. Thank you in advance!So please join us on Thursday evening. Check out a couple of tasty Cosmic Eye brews and generously tip the ever-so-fine wait staff. As per normal operations, bring some brew to share with your fellow Lincoln Lagers. Cheers!Return of the Lincoln Lagers Annual Pot Luck Picnic & Mead Contest!
Member Doug Finke will be hosting our club picnic this year. We have not held one since the fall of 2019 due to that pandemic thing. Social hour will begin at 5:00 p.m. and the potluck dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Our gracious host and award-winning homebrewer plans on smoking brats for the event. Please bring along a potluck dish and plenty of homebrew to share with your fellow club members. The club will provide plates, plasticware and napkins. We have set up an event page on Facebook. Please let us know if you’re planning to attend and if you’ll be bringing a guest. It would be good to know some numbers for the brats and plates.
We’re also considering the return of the annual mead tasting and judging. In the past, the ladies in attendance sampled the entries and let us know who made the best mead. Bragging rights followed. If you have a mead, then bring it along.
Where do I go? The address to Doug’s place is 4850 Quarry Ledge Road, Roca, Nebraska. It’s about 20 minutes (ish) south of Lincoln. Doug says the best way to get there is by heading to Saltillo Road and then turn south at 54th Street. From there, make your way to Quarry Ledge Road. If you make it all the way to Roca Road, you’ve gone too far. Turn right (west) and go to 4850, on your right (north).
One more thing, we still have some collectible glassware from recent Sower’s Cup comps. If you’re missing a glass or two in your collection, this could be your last chance to get one. No charge! (Note: If you use one to drink beer at the picnic – the glass is yours to keep. Yes. Doug is not going to wash it for you. You must take it home!)
The Sower’s Cup
A friendly reminder that the Sower’s Cup website officially goes live on Monday morning, Aug. 29, at 8:00 a.m. If you have recently made a batch of beer and/or plan on doing so in the next few weeks, please consider entering the competition. Keep the dates in mind – October 14 & 15 – for the main judging sessions (one Friday evening and two on Saturday). We’ll have the awards banquet and dinner on Saturday evening, plus a few preliminary judging sessions earlier in the week. To register your beverages, click here.We are still looking for volunteers to help with the event and we will be making a pitch for you to help out at the monthly meeting on Thursday. It takes a lot of people to put on the largest homebrewing competition in Nebraska and the only full-scale competition in the state being organized by a homebrewing club. Watch for a special edition of the Brewsletter with links to all of the volunteer opportunities, coming real soon.
Additional information is in the September Brewsletter
- Brewing Odds ‘n’ Ends
- 402 Quarterly Contest – Ciders and Vienna Lagers
- Craft and Homebrew in the news: IPA, Big Foam and Homebrewed Imperial Stout wins homebrew contest in England
- The Trub Zone
- The latest, greatest and updatest Lincoln Lagers Calendar
- American Homebrewers Association
- Benson Homebrew Club – Benson (Omaha), NE
- Brauer Unterstützungs Verein – Omaha, NE
- Kansas City Biermeisters
- L.A.G.E.R.S. – Louisville, KY
- Local 402 Brewers Union – Omaha, NE
- OmaHops Brewing Club – Omaha NE
- Railroaders Brew Club – Omaha, NE
- South Omaha Brewers – Omaha, NE
- Benson Brewery – Omaha, NE
- Farnam House Brewing Co. – Omaha, NE
- Gottberg Brewery & Pub – Columbus, NE
- Infusion Brewing Co. – Omaha, NE
- Jaipur Brewing Company – Omaha, NE
- Lucky Bucket Brewing – Omaha, NE
- Nebraska Brewing Company – Omaha, NE
- Schilling Bridge Brewery & Winery – Pawnee City, NE
- Scratchtown Brewing – Ord, NE
- Thunderhead Brewing – Kearney, NE
- Upstream Brewing Co. – Omaha, NE
