Alefest 2006!!

Tomorrow 08/26 at Carrillon Park is the 8th annual Dayton Alefest, it features:
Over 300 Craft Beers from more than 50 world class breweries
Select Draught and Cask Ales
Commemorative AleFest sampling glass
Event sampling guide with handy beer and brewing references
Retail sales of beer wearables and memorabilia
Silent Auction featuring beer memorabilia
Raffle for beer collectibles
Local Celebrity Tasting panel
Expanded Beer & Food Tents
EuroBrew's Legendary Alehouse
Food concession: Cassano's Pizza & Subs and Milano's Atlantic City Subs
100% of proceeds from food sales go to DADA
Tank’s Bar shuttle bus from Tank’s to Carillon Park
2006 Charity: Diabetes Association of Dayton Area

$25 Tickets can be obtained at:

Belmont Party Supply

Arrow Wine & Spirits

Jungle Jim’s (Cincinnati)

Bee Gee’s Mini Market

Marshall's Wine & Liquor

Miami Valley Wine & Spirits

Boston’s Bistro & Pub

Peachs Grill

Brixx Ice Company

Rivers Bend Wine & Spirits

Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers Downtown

Sips Café

Cuvée Wine Bar & Cellar

Southern Belle

Dorothy Lane Market

Tank’s Bar

Dublin Pub

Wine Works (Springfield)

Jerardi's Little Store

Tickets are available at the gate for $30, D.D. tickets are $15. 2pm-6pm

Participating breweries include:

Abita Allagash Anchor Anderson Valley Anheuser Busch Arcadia Avery Ayinger Bass Bavik Beamish Beck’s Belhaven Bitburger Boddington Boon Brooklyn Carlsberg Chimay Trappist Christian Moerlein Coors Specialty Czechvar DAB Dixie Dogfish Head Dos Equis DuPont Einbecker Erdinger Fischer Flying Dog Founders Franziskaner Fullers Geary’s Goose Island Gordon Biersch Great Lakes Guinness Hacker Pschorr Harp Harpoon Harviestoun Highfalls Hoegaarden Hofbrau Kalamazoo Labatt Leinenkugel Lindemans Mackeson McEwans Melbourn Brothers Moretti Mortgaat/Duvel Moylan’s Murphy’s New Holland Newcastle Old Dominion Old Peculier Ommegang Orkney Orval Trappist Otter Creek Paulaner Pete’s Pilsner Urquell Pinkus Munster Organic Red Stripe Redhook Reissdorf River Horse Rogue Rolling Rock Samuel Adams Samuel Smith Sapporo Schlenkerla Schneider Sierra Nevada Smithwicks Snake River Southern Tier Spaten Spoetzl St. Pauli Girl St. Peters Stella Artois Stone Stoudt’s Straub Tetley’s Thirsty Dog Three Floyds Tiger Tommyknocker Traquair House Tuborg Unibroue Van Steenberge Veltins Victory Warsteiner Westmalle Trappist Weyerbacher Whitbread Widmer Brothers Wolaver’s Wychwood Wye Valley Xingu Young’s

and with that, I leave you with a quote:

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed - Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.'"-Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Beer & Sweat

Beer and Sweat is today, The Nation's 1st and ONLY Keg-only Homebrew competition.

http://www.bloatarian.org/

It is late notice, and already started, but it's all day as well, so those who read this today, get out to the Cincinnati Club downtown Cincy and get to the competition!

Awards are presented at 7:00ish.

If you are an entrant, judge, their guest, or member of a homebrew club such as DRAFT, a mere $15 donation and you could be drinking your own weight in homebrews!

Meeting results

The tasting last night was much larger than the previous month. There were good times to be had for sure. The new people, Alan, Jason, Colin, and Steve had a blast.

The verdict was that a homebrewed hazelnut brown, brewed by Brian Sanders was the top beer of the night by the newcomers. Also for the tasting was Mike's burbon mead, and a belgain burbon ale, which was amazing.

Its always worth coming out to these tastings for the variety in beers to be drank, but without fail, the homebrews always win overall in flavour.

The German festival is this weekend (Aug 12th-13th) and worth coming out to. It's at Carrilon park, will have great German foods, bands, and of course, the beer. featured beers at this fest will be:

Ayinger Jahrhundertbier
Hofbrau Original Lager
Paulaner Original
Erdinger Hefewisen
St. Pauli Girl Dunkle
Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen
St. Pauli Girl Lager
Grolsch Bierbrouwerij Premium Lager
Fischer Amber
Hofbrau Dark
and Widmer Bros. Hefewiesen

and if that's not a reason for me to celebrate festivus, I don't know what is.

Remember, If you can't make it out to these festive events, you can always get all the beers and supplies to buy them at Belmont Party Supply.

Afterward, I will likely go to Boston's to see what they have on tap. Last I checked they had Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA and Flying Dog Gonzo Porter on tap. Always a good idea to check in on those guys.

Mark, Evan, be warned, I'm coming with my drinking gloves on!!

More info on Alefest, the next coming meetings, Beerfest, Beer & Sweat, and other related updates to come in the near future.

Next Meeting Friday, 11 August Columbian Hall. Doors open at 7, meeting at 8. The newletter may be delayed. My home computer has major problems and until I get it repaired, I am pretty much limited on what I can do. See you at the meeting.