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Last Saturday (April 24th), the Lincoln Lagers homebrew club hosted the 2010 Nebraska Shootout homebrew competition. The event was started in 2002 as a friendly competition between the Omahops and Lincoln Lagers homebrew clubs, and was an annual event until 2006. This year it was resurrected as a competition between all of the AHA registered homebrew clubs in the state of Nebraska.
The event was held at the Bricktop Tap House in downtown Lincoln, where brewers attended from as far as Broken Bow, Kearney, and Omaha. Each brew club was allowed to enter two beers in each of the predetermined beer style categories. Styles included Schwartzbier, Strong Scotch Ale, Hefeweizen, Smoked Beer, and a special category called ‘Best Damn Beer’, which meant just that.
Prior to the event, homebrew clubs hosted their own private judging rounds to select which members beers would represent their club. At the Shootout, clubs earned 2 points for 1st place beers, and 1 point for 2nd place. The Lincoln Lagers came away victorious with 9 total points, which included the coveted Nebraska Shootout Cup.
There were 36 beers entered by 6 homebrew clubs, all of which were judged by certified BJCP Judges. The Best of show winner was Dave Oenbring of the Lincoln Lagers, he will be holding onto the cup for the next year. Congrats to Dave and his phenomenal Strong Scotch Ale.
The ‘Best Damn Beer’ winner, Elliot Spilker of the Omahahops, was awarded the rusty capper trophy that has been passed around for this “BDB” winner since the invention of the competition.
A great victory to note was that of Dan Hodges from the Motley Brew Crew in Broken Bow, Dan and his lovely wife made the 3 hour trip as the lone entrant for his brew club. Dan took home 1st place in the Smoked beer category with his delicious Smoked Altbier. A big congrats to Dan and the Motley Brew Crew.
A potluck was also part of the party, where brewers got to share their favorite dishes while having a great time getting to know each other. The day was spent eating great food, exchanging brewing techniques, and sampling each others prized homebrew. The Nebraska clubs in attendance include Motley Brew Crew (Broken Bow), South Omaha Brewers, Railroaders Brew Club(Omaha), Kearney Area Brewers, Omahops, and the Lincoln Lagers.
Now for the winners
BJCP Category 4C, Schwartzbier
1st Place – Alan Torell (Omahops)
2nd Place – Jason McLaughlin (Lincoln Lagers)
BJCP Category 9E, Strong Scotch Ale
1st Place – Dave Oenbring (Lincoln Lagers)
2nd Place – Dave Oenbring (Lincoln Lagers)
BJCP Category 15A, Hefeweizen
1st Place – Jason McLaughlin (Lincoln Lagers)
2nd Place – Tom Hamilton (Kearney Area Brewers)
BJCP Category 23B, Other Smoked Beers
1st Place – Dan Hodges (Motley Brew Crew)
2nd Place – Tom Hamilton (Kearney Area Brewers)
Best Damn Beer
1st Place – Elliot Spilker, Baltic Porter (Omahops)
2nd Place – Scott Schneider, Black Ale (Lincoln Lagers)
Best of Show
1st Place – Dave Oenbring, Strong Scotch Ale (Lincoln Lagers)
2nd Place – Jason McLaughlin, Hefeweizen (Lincoln Lagers)
A special thanks to goes out to all the Nebraska homebrew clubs, judges, stewards, and the Bricktop Tap House for making this event a success.
Joining a homebrew club is truly the best way to master your craft, and meet great people that share a passion for our greatest gift, Beer.
Check out the club nearest you:
South Omaha Brewers http://www.southomahabrewers.org/
Omahops http://www.omahops.org/
Railroaders Brew Club (Omaha) http://www.railroadersbrewclub.com/
Kearney Area Brewers http://www.kearneyareabrewers.com/
Motley Brew Crew (Broken Bow) email: lisanatebell [at] gmail.com
Lincoln Lagers http://www.lincolnlagers.com/
Cheers,
Jason McLaughlin
Event Coordinator
Lincoln Lagers
May Meeting: Bob’s Place, May 1st
The Lagers’ May meeting will be a springtime Pot-Luck dinner at Mailman Bob’s place. We’ll kick off around 6pm on Saturday, May 1st. Bring your favorite dish to share!
Location is at 6220 South 53rd St. – That’s just past 56th & Old Cheney Rd, for any of you (and me) who aren’t from the south side of town. Exact directions and a map are posted in the Forum Thread and more updates will be posted there too once they’re available, so watch there for updates!
Nebraska Shootout Judging: April 24th
Judging is taking place this Saturday, April 24th, at Bricktop, 1427 O Street, in downtown Lincoln (Next door to Yia Yia’s pizza).
Start: 1pm to allow more time to the clubs who have a long journey
Finish: around 5pm. All the clubs are bringing as many members as can make it, along with a dish for the potluck.
There should be plenty of street parking at meters around the event, but please note that they do ticket on Saturdays. There is a parking garage located on the corner of 14th & P Street that would allow you to park and forget about it.
A big welcome to all of our zymurgists coming in from across the state! We’re happy to have the following clubs participating in this year’s Nebraska Shootout: South Omaha Brewers, OmaHops, and Railroaders Brew Club all of Omaha NE, Kearney Area Brewers of Kearney NE, and the Motley Brew Crew of Broken Bow NE.
Mark B.’s Porter heading to Minnesota
Lincoln Lagers member Mark B. rose above a number of strong entries in the Porter category, and won second place in the Midwest regional NHC judging. His Porter is advancing to the main event at the National Homebrewers Conference in Minneapolis in June 2010.
Congratulations Mark!
Lincoln Lagers featured on AHA Website
The Lagers were highlighted on the Homebrewers Association website! Full story: AHA Club Of The Week
Saturday April 10th
Judging of entries for the Nebraska club competition starts at 5pm, with meeting at 6pm.
Location is 1601 SW 50th St., off of West A St.
Please bring appetizers or finger foods for munching on while we meet.
Don’t forget! This will be the time to judge the beers for the Nebraska Shoot Out. Bring two bottles to the meeting. The best of each division moves on to the finale on April 24th at the Brick Top!
We will be holding our March meeting at Bricktop where we can all down our desired delight from their deck of dozens of delicious drinks. The meeting will be held Wednesday, yes, Wednesday, March 3rd.
We’ll start at 7pm. We need to wrap up our club business before 10pm, but everyone is welcome to stay as long as they would like after the meeting since Bricktop does not close until 1am.
Stay tuned for any new information.
One of our Lagers members,
Erik Newgard, is looking for people willing to be trained as an American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) Tasting Panel. His goal is a reliable tasting group of 20-30 individuals. Hopefully this experiment will provide some valuable experience that will improve all of our abilities to taste qualitatively and quantitatively.
Initial time commitment is a few hours in February for screening, and a couple of hours in Mid-March. (Ideally, the members of this panel might be available on a semi-permanent basis for more scientific tastings in the future, so that a new panel does not need to be re-created every time.) For more information, visit This Thread In The Members Only Forum – or if you cannot access that thread, you can send Erik a PM. Deadline is approximately Feb 12th.
WEDNESDAY, February 3rd.
Location: BBQ4U
1501 Center Park Rd. Suite 100
Lincoln, NE 68512 (402) 464-2152
Talk about this meeting in the discussion thread.
Breaking News Release – AHA Club-Only Competition – Entry Instructions
As a reminder, this month’s meeting will be held on Wednesday Feb 3, 2010 (not Thursday) at BBQ4U. If you wish to enter your English brown ale (any BJCP category 11 beer) for the January/February Club-Only Competition, please bring TWO 12 oz bottles to Wednesday’s meeting. If you brewed a brown ale during the big brew at Doug’s house, consider bringing your beer as an entry for the competition. Please – only one entry per person. (One entry is two bottles of the same beer.) For those of you who have taken the BJCP study course, we will need stewards and judges!
More information on this Club-Only Competition can be found at http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/news/show?title=aha-club-only-competition-english-brown-ales
See you Wednesday!
Mark
January’s meeting will be our annual Potluck dinner at Brian & Janet’s house! This meeting will be held Saturday January 9th, and starts at 6pm.
Please see the meeting thread in the forum for directions.
The Event Calendar has been updated, you can view it here.
If you have an event that you would like to see on this calendar, please log in to the Forum and reply to the Calendar thread so that we can add your event.
The next monthly meeting will take place at the home of Kim Theesen & Anita Jackson on Saturday, Decembeer 5, 1008 S. 32nd Street, 32nd and E.
The 6 o’clock meeting will feature the 2009 edition of the Lincoln Lager Challenge. Entries must be submitted by 6 o’clock (we’ll be ready by 5) with the comp starting shortly thereafter. Regular meeting, homebrew tasting, and general frivolity commence at 7 pm. And, yes, THE game will be on the tube. (Can we still call that squawk box a tube?)
Additional discussion and Challenge rules are in the forum. See you Saturday!
Lincoln Lager Jason McLaughlin took first place honors in the Brewers’ Choice of the Winter Warmer Beer Quest at Lazlo’s on Novembeer 15. Jason’s delicious chocolate stout also was BOS in the preliminary judging. Bob Catherall took fourth with his yummy espresso sweet stout. Complete results are posted above and related discussions are on the forum. The next Beer Quest will be “session ales” in February.
Empyrean Ales’ Beer Quest – Winter Ales
Sunday, November 15th
A hearty GOOD LUCK! to our Lagers members who made the Top 10 and are serving their beers:
Jason McLaughlin – Chocolate Stout
Bob Catherall – Espresso Sweet Stout
AHA Club Only Competition Update
Tuesday, November 17th DUE DATE
In order for the submission for our next Club-Only Competition to arrive on time (in Florida), we must receive entries by NEXT WEEK (Tuesday, November 17th). The judged style is Belgian Strong Ale, which includes all substyles in BJCP category 18.
Anyone who has three 12 oz bottles of this style and would like to enter them in the competition, please contact Mark B. immediately! More information can be found in this Forum thread.
Decembeer Lincoln Lagers Meeting
Saturday, December 5th
6:00 PM, Hosted at Kim T’s. (map)
Featuring The 2009 Lincoln Lagers Challenge!!
Competition sponsored by Moran’s and Kirk’s Brew!!
“The Hair of the Un-Bitten Dog”
Saturday, December 12th
2nd Annual Beer Tasting, Hosted by Ryan C., from 4:30pm – ??
Admittance is free!!
Please bring along some commercial brews or bottles of homebrew to share and a lawn chair.
In addition to providing over 30 commercial brews, sponsor Dogs & Spuds is serving hot dogs at the event!
Bring a bottle of beer, get a ticket for a hot dog!
Full details on this awesome tasting event can be found in this Forum thread.
- 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
