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I received an email from Mark Edelson of the Iron Hill brewery asking me to share this event announcement with the club!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Booce & Beers Iron Hill Wilmington Riverfront ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ – Bocce Ball Tournament with Dogfish Head – After Bocce enjoy Reserved Beers from Iron Hill & Dogfish Head – Corporate Headquarters – Info

Bocce Ball Tournament with Dogfish Head ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us on the Wilmington Riverfront Thursday August 17 starting at 6 pm for a most unlikely evening of Bocce Ball and beer drinking as Iron Hill challenges Dogfish Head Brewery in a Bocce Ball tournament. The event will feature Iron Hill’s good friend and Dogfish Head’s founder Sam Calagione as well as the brewery staff from Dogfish and Iron Hill. Dogfish Head

After Bocce enjoy Reserved Beers from Iron Hill & Dogfish Head ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once the Bocce tournament comes to its thrilling end, enjoy special reserved beers from Iron Hill and Dogfish Head.

Iron Hill Reserve Beers will include~~~ The Cannibal: A light bodied Belgian Golden Strong Ale with hints of tropical fruit. Winner of a Gold Medal at the 2005 GABF and a Silver Medal at the 2006 World Beer Cup~~~ Berlinerweisse: German style wheat beer, with a refreshing tart, acidic, and lemony citric fruit characteristic. The addition of woodruff or raspberry syrup can balance out the sourness.

Dogfish Head Reserve Beers will include~~~ Chateau Jiahu: re-creation of an ancient beer made with rice, Wildflower honey, Muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers~~~ Punkin Ale: full-bodied brown ale with smooth hints of pumpkin and brown sugar~~~Red & White: A 12% abv Belgian-style Wit beer. It was brewed with the rinds of over 60 tangelos and freshly ground coriander. The beer is be aged in Pinot Noir barrels (not available in bottles). Dogfish Head Red & White

Check out this beer festival in the Pocono’s on Nov 18th & 19th!

Great Brews of America Beerfest at the Split Rock Resort
The two-day indoor festival, set in the beautiful Pocono Mountains on the dates of Nov 18th & 19th, 1-5pm, the Great Brews of America Beerfest will feature close to 50 of America’s finest classic and micro-breweries offering tastes of their latest brews. Musical entertainment will be performed on three different stages, while crafts and artwork will be on exhibition and for sale.

In addition, food purveyors will be in attendance offering selections of various delectable menus for you to choose from. Each attendee will receive a commemorative beer tasting glass to take home. Seminars on various beer related topics will be featured throughout the festival. Advanced Tickets .

A Beer & Food Matching Dinner be held on Saturday night at 7:30 providing an insight into which foods match well with certain beers. The cost of the dinner is an additional $50.00 per person. For Advance Tickets and Weekend Package information, call Great Brews of America at 1-800-255-7625

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From: Heavyweight Brewing Company
Sent: Jun 16, 2006 9:25 AM
To: Beer Lovers
Subject: Heavyweight News

Greetings-

I trust that everyone in the NYC, NJ and the Philly area is getting excited about the upcoming 2006 NJ Beer Fest. This year’s fest will again be held on the pier of the NJ Battleship at the Camden waterfront on Saturday, June 24th from 1-5pm. All the brewers in NJ (those that care about good beer and good beer drinkers, anyhow) will be there pouring nearly 50 NJ-made beers. Your ticket also allows you to tour the historic ship. For more info, check out www.njbeer.org or www.battleshipnewjersey.org. The revenue from this fest supports the NJ Battleship Museum and the not-for-profit Garden State Craft Brewers Guild which promotes craft beer in NJ. Please come out and support the NJ brewers.

As for Heavyweight, many of you have no doubt heard that we are closing up shop at the end of June 2006. We sympathize with the faction out there that feel sorry for themselves about our closing; we will also miss many of our beers. But you should not feel sorry for us. Heavyweight was designed to essentially be a one-man operation. We know that in order to allow Heavyweight to grow (as it wants to) we would have to dramatically change that basic design and we’re not willing to do that. Instead, we choose to stop Heavyweight, while (in our opinion) it’s on top of it’s game and redirect that momentum into another project. We don’t have any details for you now, except to say that it will be a pub/restaurant with a small brewery. The wheres and whens are still to be sorted out. We’ll keep you posted.

In order to have an opportunity to says thanks and goodbye for now, we are hosting one last wacky Heavyweight open house gathering. This time it will actually be two open house gatherings; Saturday, July 1st and Sunday the 2nd. Each day will run from 1-5 pm and we should have a bunch of beers on tap. We recently brewed a sour-mashed rye and a wild rice beer and both will be on tap. As always, bring whatever beers you’d like to share and please bring something non-perishable for our local foodbank. Hunger is something few of us truly experience and is a disgraceful thing in such a wealthy land.

If you can’t make it to the open house, Andy’s Corner Bar is throwing Heavyweight a Tribute night on Wed., June 28th starting at 6pm. George, Barb and Tom are giving us most of their tap space and we’ll be there to show our love for one of NJ’s best beer bars.

Thanks again to all of you who made these past seven years so enjoyable for us. Remember, you are the reason that craft brewers do what they do. Thanks for supporting small breweries everywhere.

Peace,
Tom and Peggy

I found this online today!

BEER WE GO

Germans fear weii going to drink them dry

By Jeremy Armstrong
28 June 2006

ENGLAND’s massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday.

Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters.

In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints each.

Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: “Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time.”

His bar at a fans’ tent in the city ran out after they drained all 32 of his 50-litre (11 gallon) barrels.

Herr Murr calculated Britons were shifting beer at a staggering rate of 200 pints per minute.

City official Peter Murrmann said: “The English proved themselves world champs. They practically drank us dry.”

In Cologne, where England drew with Sweden, bottles and barrels of the local K?lsch beer ran out because so many English took them to campsites and parties.

Stuttgart bar chiefs said an extra 900,000 pints were sunk last weekend where 60,000 fans partied before and after our 1-0 win over Ecuador.

The Veltins brewery also revealed it has produced a record 418,000 gallons in a bid to keep up with demand.

A spokesman said: “It is incredible how much is being drunk but the hardest thing for the breweries is keeping up with the thirst of the English.”

In Dortmund, where most fans for England’s Gelsenkirchen clash against Portugal on Saturday are staying, the giant DAB brewery is bracing itself by ferrying in extra supplies to boost production.

Good news for us beer drinkers It says, that Beer may protect you from getting prostate cancer
Cheers

Harald

Bier könnte laut neuer US-Studie vor Prostatakrebs schützen
Dienstag 13. Juni 2006, 11:52 Uhr

San Francisco (AFP) - Bier könnte laut einer neuen US-Studie vor Prostatakrebs schützen. Der Hopfen-Bestandteil Xanthohumol bremse die Krankheit, heißt es in einer am Montag veröffentlichten Studien der Universität Oregon. Allerdings müsste der gesundheitsbewusste Trinker rund 15 Halb-Liter-Gläser leeren, um den gewünschten Effekt zu erzielen, warnte Emily Ho, Leiterin des Forschungsprojekts: “Die negativen Auswirkungen des Alkohols könnten die gesundheitlichen Vorteile des Bierkonsums zunichte machen.”

Der Studie zufolge wäre es aber möglich, Tabletten mit Xanthohumol-Konzentrat herzustellen. Auch könne der Xanthohumol-Gehalt in Hopfen gesteigert werden. Deutsche Wissenschaftler haben bereits ein Bier gebraut, in dem die zehnfache Menge des Wirkstoffs enthalten ist. Die Brauerei Weihenstephaner vertreibt ein derart hergestelltes Hefe-Weißbier und vermarktet es als Gesundheitsbier. Wissenschaftlich bewiesen sei der Effekt bisher allerdings noch nicht, sagte Fred Stevens, Co-Autor der US-Studie. Auch die nun vorgelegten Ergebnisse müssten noch durch weitere Tests erhärtet werden.

“Es ist der Traum jedes Mannes, dass Pizza und Bier Krebs verhindern können”, fügte Stevens hinzu. Auch in Tomatensoße war kürzlich ein Stoff gefunden worden, der die Krankheit aufhalten könnte. Allerdings warnte Stevens, keine Ernährung könne ein sicherer Schutz gegen Prostata-Krebs sein. Notwendig sei vielmehr, dass Männer regelmäßig zu Vorsorgeuntersuchungen gingen

The Twin Lakes Brewing Company is having its Grand Opening on

Saturday, June 3, 2006 from 12pm-4pm

Park in the field & come celebrate with us…

Fresh: Live Music from Nine Eyes Band

Local: Deerhead Hotdogs

Delicious: Brewery Tours with Brewmaster Mark Fesche

Tickets are $10 each at the door

Here’s the latest beer schedule at State Line Liquors!

Thursday, June 1st, 7-9 pm. “Europe: The Ones We Don’t Normally Taste” … Specially selected brews from France, Netherlands, Denmark, Holland, Austria, Poland & Czechoslovakia. This is one you don’t want to miss!

Thursday, June 22nd, 7-9 pm. “Summer Beers”… Pilsners, Kolsch & (select)Wheat Beers.

Thursday, July 13th, 7-9 pm. “Wheat Beers”… North American Microbrews & Craft Wheat Beers, plus German & Belgian Wheats.

John Biggins informed me of this.

On Thursday May 18th, Six Paupers Tavern will host the official first serving of Tweeds Tavern Stout as brewed by the Twin Lakes Brewing Company of Greenville, Delaware.

Join us from 4:00 to 8:00 and be one of the first to try the new signature brew from local brewers Twin Lakes. An antique horse drawn cart will deliver the first keg at 4:00 from the historic Tweeds Tavern site (the oldest tavern in Hockessin) to Six Paupers. Enjoy complementary light appetizers and acoustic music from Chip Porter of Montana Wildaxe.

OK, I have witnessed houses cluttered with empty beer conainers, but not on the scale of this!

70,000 Beer Cans Found in Ogden Townhouse

I once helped a club member clear his kitchen of about 70 emply bottles, but this guy kept 70 thousand cans! Amazing!

Here’s some more news from the Heavyweight Brewing Company!

Hello all-

We’re hosting another open-house on Sunday, April 30th, from 1-4pm. We’ll be pouring the 2006 Baltus OVS, the Wee Whale Scotch Ale and the Ste-ve’ (a Belgian-style Pale). We’ll also have all three in bottle for take-away. We would also ask that you bring some non-perishable food for our local Foodbank collection (you know, cans and dry goods), Last time we collected 450 pounds thanks to you. Gus, our trusty open-house barkeep, would like to thank you for your gratitude (tips) in the past and wants us to remind you that all of these funds have been used in the support of the Haiti mission he is involved with. Ask him about it next time you see him.

Slow Food Philly is having a Pig roast and BBQ bash at Yards Brewery on Sunday, May 21, from 2-5 pm. Lynn Buono, (from Feast Your Eyes and Amelia’s BBQ), has kindly agreed to cater the event. There will also be great beer from both Heavyweight and Yards. This will be a great opportunity to meet lots of Slow Food folks and enjoy some fine BBQ and craft brews! Tickets are $35 for members and $40 for non-members.

We’ll also be at the following events:
May 5 - Beer and Cheese Tasting w/Yards Brewing at DiBruno’s in Philly
May 12 - Long Island Beer Fest at the Huntington Hilton
May 20 - Brandywine Fest at Iron Hill - Media, PA

Hope to see you here or there,
Tom and Peggy