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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,500ml Pyrex beaker of stout 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.

BBQ4U

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.

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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.

Challenge 2009

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!

BQ Scores

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

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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.

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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!!

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“The Hair of the Un-Bitten Dog”

Saturday, December 12th

2nd Annual Beer Tasting, Hosted by Ryan C., from 4:30pm – ??

Dogs & Spuds Hot Dog Cart

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.

The fall tradition returns on Sunday, November 8th, at Doug Finke’s place. The plan is to build the best damn brown ale ever. Be part of history and join us. The six gallons of wort will be “around twenty dollars.” You add any other adjuncts, plus your own hops, and yeast. Contact Doug today and reserve your brew! Click on the graphic for more details in the LL Forum! We’ll also be having the monthly meeting in the afternoon after the Brew, probably around 3 pm. So, even if you’re not brewing, come on out and hang with the big brewers!

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