Next Meeting
May 12(Saturday) Bocks & Lagers at Leo Vitt's.

Directions:
The meeting is Saturday May 12th, starting at 5:00PM
720 15 Street NE, Rochester. Phone 285-0468

Directions: From North Broadway, Silver Lake Shopping center, go east on 14th
Street NE to 7 AVE NE, turn left 1 block , then right onto 15 Street NE and to
3/4 of a block. The house is tan on the right.

Plan on being out doors (weather permitting), so bring lawn chairs.
The style of the month is Bock and other lagers. The grill will be available.

Topics to be discussed/voted on:
Statewide campout plans - we are hosts this year!!
Big Brew & AHA membership (pics on our website soon)

Calendar Of Events

Date	Host	Styles
05/12	Leo Vitt	Bocks & Lagers
06/16	Wayne Theuer	Annual Club Campout(Meads)
07/14	Greg Renkly	Homebrew/Home-bottled Only
08/04		Statewide Interclub Campout hosted by Timberworts at Wasioja Campground
09/08	Ken Vossen	40th B-day beers
10/13	James White	Marzen & Octoberfest
11/10	Ron Elshaug	Strong Belgians
12/08	Steve & Amy Determan	Barleywine and Christmas
10/05/02	Pam & Gerry	Wedding styles

Date	Event
09/08?	Brewery Tour at Mantorville Brewing
08/11	Great Taste of the Midwest
?	Club Only Competition host?

Statewide interclub campout
Wazionja Campgrounds
6450 120th St NW
Pine Island, MN 55963
507-356-8594

The campground is located on Wazionja Road - it is the first road on the
left going north out of Oronoco on HWY 52, about a mile north of the Conoco
station. The campground is on the left about a 1/2 mile down Wazionja road. There are signs (MnDot) for the campground on 52.

If you are planning to bring a large camper or RV, you will need to contact the campground and request a location near the `interclub campout' site(if that is your desire).

Leo Vitt will be distributing `brewing kits' to several clubs that are planning to attend the campout. The idea is to have a tasting competition at the campout. If your club is planning to attend and desires a kit, please contact Leo Vitt( lvitt4@yahoo.com ). Any questions? Leo is also your answer man!!


The Great Taste of the Midwest
August 11th is not that far away!! Tickets have gone on sale as of May 1st. Several club members are planning to stay at the Best Western Inn on the Park, which is located next to the capitol building in downtown Madison(and a reasonable walking distance to the pubs). Their phone is (800) 279-8811. They have a two night minimum stay. More information is available at:

http://hbd.org/mhtg/gt_faq.html




AHA/BJCP Style Guidelines
http://www.hbd.org/ford/stylguid.html
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/slack/bjcp/


Other submitted pieces and bits
From Pam King:
Gerry and I set a wedding date. October 5, 2002.


From Leo Vitt:
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 11:59:42 -0400
From: "Ken Schramm" <schramk@resa.net>
Subject: The Mazer Cup is now the Bill Pfeiffer Memorial Mazer Cup

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Mazer Cup is slated for return, now under the new moniker
"the Bill Pfeiffer Memorial Mazer Cup." The AABG and the new
competition organizers, Jason Henning and Jim Suchy, agreed
on the change to honor our mead making and judging mentor and
friend, Bill Pfeiffer, who passed away last May 5th. He was a big
influence on us all, and a repeatedly honored mead maker, having
won awards ranging from numerous Mazer Cup firsts and seconds
to AHA Mead Maker of the Year. For those not familiar with the
competiion, the Mazer Cup is a mead only competition with several
categories (8 last time), permitting meads to compete against their
peers and not against dramatically different styles.

Plans at this point are for first round judging to occur March 16th
and 23rd, 2002. Individual categories may be judged at locations
around southeastern Michigan, but rest assured that all due care
will be taken in the handling of entries.

Information about the competition is available at
www.mazercup.org. Please drop by for information on entries
and time tables. Contact info is there, too, for those with questions.

Judges are welcome from whence-ever they originate. Beds will
be made available. I truly believe that there is no better chance to
taste and evaluate this broad a variety of meads - in one place
at one time - in this country. One cannot help but educate
the palate.

As always, I feel confident that the Mazer Cup's standards for
complete, courteous and helpful judge comments will be adhered
to stringently. The Mazers will again be crafted by Nicole Henry,
former thrower for the Pewabic Pottery and currently ceramic
instructor at the esteemed Center for Creative Studies in Detroit.
Year after year the beauty and creativity embodied in these
hand-crafted ceramic vessels continues to astonish me; they are
truly unique acknowledgements of mead making acomplishment.

To paraphrase the song:

"Now we're back, and here to say, we can really shake 'em down."

Enter early and often. Good luck!


Yours,
Ken Schramm
Charter Organizer (retired, at least temporarily)
Bill Pfeiffer Memorial Mazer Cup Mead Competition
Troy, Michigan

From Ken Vossen:
"I Love Beer IV"

On April 21st, 2001 I participated in the above mentioned pub crawl. Many thanks to the support team of Ron Elshaug and Wayne Theuer who arrived at the Water Tower just in time to stage a `pub crawl sit in' as a show of support for me. J

The following pubs were visited: Water Tower, Vine Park, Town Hall, Rock Bottom, Herkimer, Green Mill, Great Waters and Barley John's. Our trusty school buses carried us in grand style!! (Well .. the beers did have something to do with enhancing my perspective regarding a school bus ride I suppose) Approximately 80 crawlers started out at the Water Tower with me, with around 500 total participating crawl wide.

The beers I sampled on the crawl were about what you would expect on a pub crawl wet, cool and tasty!! Of course the best beers were at the Water Tower (and some imports sampled from Ron and Wayne's collection)!!




Club Discounts with Membership card!

* Hawkeye's Custom Home Brew Shop (507) 583-7167 Wayne Theuer, Blooming Prairie, Cost + 10%
* Brew & Grow Fridley 10% discount
* WindRiver Brewing Co. Eden Prairie 10% discount
* Northern Brewer St. Paul 10% discount
* Andy's Liquor Rochester 10% discount on all non-sale beer
* Tower Liquor Fairbault 10% discount
* Apollo Liquors (next to Best Buy) Rochester 10% discount

Club Information

The Minnesota TimberWorts Homebrew Club meets on the second Saturday of each month. Meetings are held at the homes of members or local pubs. Yearly dues are $10 per individual or $15 per couple, and are used to cover the expense of this newsletter and other costs. Anyone interested in information about the club can contact:

Pam King (President) (507) 288-0583 mailto:kingwarp@rconnect.com
Peter Sanders (Vice-President) (507) 367-2421 mailto:james_white@iname.com
James White (Treasurer) (507) 281-5992 mailto:james_white@iname.com
Ken Vossen (Newsletter Editor) (507) 635-5362 mailto:vossen@means.net

Club's homepage is located at:

http://members.nbci.com/markingham/