Brewout, Schwartz update, more reviewing, more cloning

Brewout:

Details: It’s a Brew Out! Hosted by Kathy and Julie

When: Sat. June 2nd

Where: Kathy Hemmerick’s place
111 High St.
West Milton, OH

Time: Around 10am

What to bring: Your brewing water and set up, lawn chairs, a dish/snack or beverage to share.

Directions: From I 75 at Tipp City take the St Rt 571 exit and head west approx. 8 miles. 571 will intersect St Rt 48 (Miami St) you will be looking at a Mc Donalds; turn right/north and at the first street(High St) turn left/west. Cross over Main St. at the stop sign, mine is the second house on the left. It is the only brick house on the street. The following link is a map.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?wip=2&v=2&style=r&rtp=~&&cp=39.96670~-84.33061&sp=aN.39.96670_-84.33061_111%20High%20St%2c%20West%20Milton%2c%20OH%2045383-1821&lvl=14&msnurl=home.aspx?strt1%3d111+High+St%26city1%3dWest+Milton%26stnm1%3dOH%26zipc1%3d%26src%3dOF%26redirect%3dfalse&msnculture=en-US

There is plenty of space for brewing with city water and electric available.

There is also a propane grill here that anyone is welcome to use. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to call or email. Please let us know if you will be able to join us. hemmerkm@woh.rr.com

If you need the phone number I recommend that you e-mail them. I don't feel comfortable posting phone numbers online.

Mike Schwartz update:

For those who like old coots, Mike went into the hospital yesterday to check on his cancer status. After a careful examination, they came up with the determination that he was clean of all cancers. Upon hearing this news he went home and drank scotch. Yum-o.

Beer Review: Abbaye Des Rocs Grand Cru Belgian Special Brown

Poured from a 11.2oz bottle into a pint glass (if you don't like it, you can give me more clean glasses, Belgium).

Appearance- Pours a dark amber with a frothy pillowlike head that lingers forever.

Smell- plum, spices, nutty essences, dark fruits, FIG!, carmel covered breads, toffee.

Taste- Candi sugar sweetness and spices upfront, rich carmel flavors with once again, dark fruits such as the ever infamous fig coming back into play. No alcohol burn for a 9.5% beer. Impressive.

Mouthfeel- Smooth and sticky with lingering carmel and plum. Ok, so there is some detectable alcohol in there. Smooth carbonation.

Drinkability- Very nice. I would drink this again and will as it came in a 4 pack. Rich and delicious, very good for unwinding in cold weather.
[ serving type: bottle ]

Maudite Clone:

7 lbs 2 row malt
6 lbs light Munich malt
2 lbs wheat malt
0.25 lbs Belgian Aroumatic Malt
0.25 lbs light crystal malt
0.10 lbs chocolate malt

Mash @ 69 degrees C for 90 minutes
1 lb brown sugar added to boil for 20 minutes
then, 1.0 oz. Tetnanger 5.7% AA for 60 minutes
0.5 oz. Hersbrucker 4.9% AA for 20 minutes

Pitched with White Labs Trappist Ale YeastFermented at 20 degrees C
Alcohol level was listed at 9.9%

Stolen from The Canadians

On the search for this recipe I came across another beer podcast. It has weenie rock intermixed with good beer reviews. Http://goodbeershow.com is the site. Check it out if you like hearing people talk about good beer.