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Great Canadian Homebrew Conference June 10th - Beer Dinner

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Great Canadian Homebrew Conference June 10th - Beer Dinner

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Location: The Rhino Bar and Grill
1249 Queen Street West, Toronto

Beer and cheese tasting, brewing demonstrations, and much more. The Rhino Bar and Grill and the Canadian Amateur Brewers Association will be going all out for an afternoon of workshops focusing on beer/food pairings and brewing education followed by a dinner prepared with beer and served with beers chosen to compliment.

Alan Moore has created a great dinner, speaker Bill White will guide you through tastings and more throughout the day.

The event will be an afternoon – evening affair that will be of interest to the homebrewer, beer lover or those just curious about beer! There are a limited number of seats so register before May 31.

Please see our website http://www.homebrewers.ca for registration and more information.
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Post by Derek »

Nice to see some information on the website:
http://www.homebrewers.ca/competitions.php (note the 'e' in 'home') :D

Unfortunately I won't be able to attend this one... but hopefully I'll be able to make it to the AGM in November. When do you decide on the styles for the competition? (at least 3 months notice would be nice, especially for bigger brews) :D

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Post by trebel19 »

Thanks,

The whole planning of events has been pushed forward, AGM competition will be announced long in advance.

AGM competition plans will be drawn up right after this event is done.

Any input to a style you want to see?

Kevin

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Post by Derek »

I'm about to bottle an oatmeal stout that I finished with Brett. and oak. I think it's a winner... but it's a while until the fall. :D

I'm planning to do a quad when it's warmer(never done one before). Late summer I'll probably do an APA and a DIPA. The pale ale style might be cool (including English, American, IPA and DIPA).

I'm still bottling, so I'd prefer having a few bottles evaluated, rather than supplying 5 gallons... but on the otherhand... I'd enjoy sampling some other stuff as well!

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A stout competition would be a good idea, we did pale ales a year and a half ago, and I have a Russian Imperial Stout at about 11% that will take until Nov. to settle down. I will look into that.

If we go with a complete big beer competition we should announce that a year in advance. The Barleywines that win at March in Montreal are always 2004 and 2005.

I am a huge fan of Oatmeal stouts, the Brett would be interesting, how are you adding oak?

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Post by Derek »

I used dark oak cubes obtained from a local BOP (used for wine kits). I didn't want to overdue it, but 30 cubes (approx 30 grams) per 5 gallons didn't produce much flavour, even with 9 weeks in the secondary!

Today I bottled the stout (6.2% and quite dry) and an Arrogant Bastard and a half (8.8%, but fairly sweet), which was also oaked (the yeast gave up, it should've been closer to a double bastard). Mixed together, they're actually a fairly good foreign/imperial stout!

I'll make sure I save a few bottles of the stout. :D

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