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Monthly Meeting for December: Lee’s Chicken

Lee's Restaurant

When: Thursday, Decembeer 1, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, business at 7 o’clock.
Where: Lee’s Chicken, 1940 W Van Dorn St, Lincoln, NE, 68522, 402.477.4339

We’re back at Lee’s for our annual chicken-and-beer meeting. Dennis and his crew will have an area reserved just for us. Plan to discuss the Nebraska Shootout, the upcoming elections for club officers, BJCP study group, and the last quarterly battle with the 402s. We’ll also engage in a little contest: Guess the Sower’s Cup Score! We’ll sample a few comp leftovers and see who can guess our judges’ scores. In addition to the 50/50, we will be giving away two more free memberships to American Homebrewer’s Association. You know you want some fried chicken! See you at Lee’s on the first of December!

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!

When: Thursday, Novembeer 3, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, business at 7 o’clock.
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)

Register your beer today!

 

 

 

 

 

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)…


Sower’s Cup Banquet Meal




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
  • 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

When: Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, business at 7 o’clock.
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!Cosmic Eye BrewingOn 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).Register your beer today!

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
Join us at Cosmic Eye Brewing, Thursday, August 4, for the monthly meeting
When: Thursday, August 4, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, business at 7 o’clock.
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. You should join us. In order to waive the fee for our monthly gathering, we are politely requesting you purchase a couple of tasty Cosmic Eye brews, and please tip the ever-so-fine wait staff. (That’s a buck for a five-dollar beer for you math-challenged out there…) As per normal operations, bring some homebrew to share with your fellow Lincoln Lagers. Cheers!Big Brew ’22: We tasted the Big Brew beers from the 2022 Big Brew. As a reminder, we started with a 1.060 cream ale wort from Code Brewing. For the tasting, we had eight stations set up. After our first round, we had a winner but need a taste-off to determine second and third places. Finally, after much debate and sampling, Mark Beatty took first-place honors and a $50 gift card from Code Brewing. Second place and a $25 card went to host Kim Theesen. Coming in third was Craig Samek, who received a $10 gift card. Thank you to all eight participants!

The Sower’s Cup Challenge: We sure would like to encourage all current members to brew at least one batch of beer (your choice of styles) in August for the Sower’s Cup, Oct. 14 & 15, 2022. Perhaps you’ll brew in September if you are making an IPA or maybe you have one or two right now in the kegerator or on the shelf that you think are pretty darn good. Ideally, every member would have at least one entry in the 2022 competition. We want the Lincoln Lagers to win the medal count and we can do it if you enter. Oh, hey! Speaking of the comp, we would also like to remind everyone that they receive a discount for the Sower’s Cup banquet if they help judge/steward the event. It is work and it is loads of fun; you learn more about judging beer and you get to drink some tasty homebrew from all over the place. More information will soon be coming your way.

That Zipline Pilsner Base Grain: The Final Announcement… We gave away half of it at the June meeting via the 50/50. Winners were notified. We still have about 40 pounds to share. Would you like some? Well, the next four people who respond to this announcement will receive ten pounds each. It’s Baird’s Pilsen Malt. Thank you to Zipline Brewing for sharing. Oh, and if Kim doesn’t hear anything by the next meeting, it’s going into his compost pile.


More homebrew news: 2022 Nebraska Shootout: This Saturday, July 30!

The Nebraska Shootout is slated for July 30, 2022, with Homebrewers Anonymous acting as the host club. The Shootout judging and award ceremony will take place at Monolithic Brewing Company, 4915 N. 12th Street, in Omaha. For those who don’t know how this competition works, it’s a competition that is restricted to homebrew clubs in Nebraska. A handful of styles are chosen each year, and each club is allowed two entries per category. Points are awarded and bragging rights follow. 

Save the Dates!

Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, is the date for the return of the club’s annual pot luck picnic. Tim & Theresa Thomssen will be our hosts. More details to come!

Friday & Saturday, Oct. 14 & 15, 2022: The Lincoln Lagers Sower’s Cup. This is our annual, regional homebrew competition. This event is tons of fun … and a lot of work. We are hoping for YOU to volunteer a little time to make this event the continued success that it’s been for several years now. We’ll be posting more details soon, along with sponsorship opportunities and deadlines for you to enter your brew.


Is there more? Yes! There’s always more!

For additional news from your Lincoln Lagers — and there’s always more! — click here to read the August edition of the Brewsletter. Tell your friends! Cheers!

Next Monthly Meeting & Big Brew Tasting
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When & Where: Thursday, July 7, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, business at 7 o’clock, then we taste the Big Brews! Kim & Anita’s house, 1008 S. 32nd Street, Lincoln, Nebraska (32nd & E… E as in Elvis or Extract.)

Big Brew ’22: In addition to bringing some brew to share with everybody (home or craft), we’re planning to taste the Big Brew beers from the 2022 Big Brew. We started with a 1.060 cream ale wort from Code Brewing. We’ll set up Big Brew stations in our garage and patio. Each taster and Big Brewer will get one voting ticket. After you’ve tasted the brews and decided on your favorites, you vote for yours by dropping your ticket into the cup of the brewer you enjoyed most. He or she who collects the most tickets wins. First place gets a $50 gift card from Code Brewing Company, second and third receive $25 and $10, respectively. In case of a tie, let’s hope there’s enough beer for a “Thunderdome-style” match-up: Two beers go in, but only one beer walks out. Or something like that…

Big Brewers! Yeah, YOU! We need to know who is planning to participate! Please contact me ASAP so we can set up a space for everybody. I’m guessing you should bring at least two, maybe three, 12-ounce bottles or the equivalent. We’ll provide some glasses. One other thing: If you brewed with the Hopsteiner hops, be sure to note that and let us know. Many of us are curious as to how those are going to bitter, taste and smell. Thank you!

That Zipline Pilsner Grain: We gave away half of it at the last meeting via the 50/50. Winners included me (Kim Theesen), Lacy Phillips, Jim Novotny and Craig Samek. We still have 50 pounds to share. Would like some base grain? Well, the first five people who respond to this announcement will receive ten pounds each. It’s Baird’s Pilsin Malt. Thanks to Zipline Brewing!

Renew your membership! Click here to do it online. Still only $25. Such a deal! What are you waiting for? Seriously…


Save the Dates! 

  • Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, is the date for the return of the club’s annual pot luck picnic. Tim & Theresa Thomssen will be our hosts. More details to come!
  • Friday & Saturday, Oct. 14 & 15, 2022: The Lincoln Lagers Sower’s Cup. This is our annual, regional homebrew competition. This event is tons of fun … and a lot of work. We are hoping for YOU to volunteer a little time to make this event the continued success that it’s been for several years now. We’ll be posting more details soon, along with sponsorship opportunities and deadlines for you to enter your brew.

For additional news from your Lincoln Lagers — and there’s always more! — click here to read the July edition of the Brewsletter. Cheers!

The date for our monthly club social has been pushed back one week. We hope to see you next Thursday at Yia Yia’s downtown location. Stop by around 6. Drink a beer. The club’s buying the pizza. Cheers!

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Please note: Tonight’s meeting has been changed to White Elm Brewing in the Haymarket, 8th & R Streets.

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Lincoln Lagers to meet at the White Elm Brewing Company

When: Thursday, June 2, 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Six o’clock for socializing, business at 7 o’clock.

Where: White Elm Brewing Co., 801 R Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. Directions: click here.

Beer:
Be sure to bring some of your homebrew to share with your fellow club members. Wait. What!? No homebrew? Bring something! You can also enjoy a pint of White Elm’s delicious brew. They currently have 15 on tap. See their beer menu here.

50/50:
In addition to the usual 50/50 – where half of the total goes to the winner and the other half to the host – we may be giving away the Zipline base grain. So, buy a ticket for a buck for a chance to win cash and malted grain!

Renew your membership!
Click here to do it online. Still only $25. Such a deal! What are you waiting for? Seriously…

The club’s monthly meeting will take place at the White Elm Brewing Company, 801 R Street (in the Haymarket location). White Elm just released their Malverde, a “Mexican-style lager,” and Caught in the Rain, an “American pale wheat.” Both new brews are currently on tap and available in cans.


More news from your Lincoln Lagers on the club’s Brewsletter. Click right here for the latest edition. Cheers!

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