Tony's Wisconsin-Indiana poster for the Great Taste of the Midwest, 2011.

I may have mistakenly advised Tony to change "New Albaniana" to "New Albania." Either way, it's fine. I now understand that while New Albania is the home of New Albanians, New Albaniana is the state-wide, Indiana-inflected version. The poster will be on sale at our booth during the GTMW.

NABC's advertisement in the 2011 Great Taste of the Midwest program.

NABC Beer Descriptions, for the Great Taste of the Midwest 2011 official program.

NABC beer descriptions for the Great Taste of the Midwest 2011 official program, as submitted earlier this summer. We're only a few days away!

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At the NABC main station, C02 pour:

*B’Urban Trotter
Elector
Hoptimus
Jaxon
*Naughty Girl
Solidarity (special timing TBA)
Thunderfoot
Tunnel Vision
Yakima

Cask-conditioned NABC (pins at the NABC station; tapping time TBA):

Scotch-pin-aged Quadrageddon
Scotch-pin-aged Solidarity

Cask-conditioned NABC (firkins at the real ale tent):

Beak’s Best
Community Dark

* Collaboration with De Struise Brouwers and Louisville Beer Store

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NABC beer descriptions

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At the NABC main station, C02 pour:

B’Urban Trotter
Double India Pale Ale
ABV: 9.2%
IBU: 208
OG: 21 degrees Plato
Finish Line at the Starting Gate
If the Kentucky Derby is the greatest two minutes in sports, then B’Urban Trotter is the finest few moments of sipping, because what better place for a brewer/ostrich rancher from Flanders to seek inspiration than Louisville’s annual Run for the Roses? With collaborative assistance from NABC and Louisville Beer Store, De Struise’s Urbain Coutteau created this “Derbied” Double India Pale Ale to be dry-hopped and bourbon/oak aged, with a suggestion of mint for the home stretch.

Malts: Rahr 2-Row, Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner, Castle Biscuit, Simpsons Medium Crystal

Hops: Cascade (mash, dry), Summit (first wort), Summit (bittering), Chinook (bittering, flavor, dry), Northern Brewer (flavor), Simcoe (dry)

Yeast: American (Chico) Ale

Special additions: Vanilla beans and honey were added during the whirlpool.

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Elector
Imperial Red
ABV: 7.5%
IBU: 62
OG: 18.5 degrees Plato
Makes Democracy Pointless
Richly malty and excessively hopped, Elector was first brewed on Election Day, taking its name from the Electoral College. In like fashion, Elector’s unique character makes democracy utterly pointless. It severs party affiliations, crosses the aisle, and commands you to drink early and vote often. That’s because whenever Elector is on the ballot, there’s only one real choice.

Malts: Rahr Pale and Simpsons Medium Crystal

Hops: Nugget and Cascade

Yeast: House American

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Hoptimus
Imperial IPA
ABV: 10.7%
IBU: 100
OG: 22.6 degrees Plato
Sterner Stuff
Living vicariously through others is a sad compromise meant only for rank amateurs and subpar international lagers. Rather, we all might profit from the principled example of Hoptimus, which lives vivaciously, audaciously and capriciously through itself. With a snarky hop character that is blatantly unrepentant, Hoptimus ensures that meek palates surely will not inherit the earth.

Malt: Special Pale

Hops: Four additions of high alpha Nugget, one late addition of Cascade, dry-hopped with whole cone Cascades

Yeast: House English

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Jaxon
Barley Wine
ABV: 11%
IBU: 100
OG: 28 degrees Plato
Drop the Leash and Let Him Run
The newest member of the Brewers’ Best Friend Series teasingly asks the question, “With a bark like that, who needs Pat?,” because Jaxon, NABC’s properly pedigreed Barleywine, is brewed and aged by David Pierce (creator of the legendary Bearded Pat’s Barley Wine) at Bank Street Brewhouse. Only the first runnings are collected from the mash tun, with no sparge. Three separate mashes make up one batch.

Malts: Special Pale, Dingeman's Biscuit, Cara 45, Special B

Hops: Centennial, Simcoe, Chinook in two additions;
Cascade in the whirlpool; dry hopped twice with whole cone Cascade

Yeast: House English

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Naughty Girl
Belgian India Blonde Ale
ABV: 6%
IBU: 69
OG: 14.4 degrees Plato
Naturally Naughty -- by Nurture
It all began as a Belgo-American ménage a trois, but then the brewers arrived and transformed the trans-oceanic affair into a beer love pentangle. The collaborative minds at Louisville Beer Store, De Struise Brouwers and New Albanian Brewing Company offer this, a willfully disobedient India Blonde Ale with a hop on her shoulder.

Malts: Rahr 2-row, Rahr Premium Pils, Castle (Belgian) Aromatic, CaraPils

Hops: Cascade, Galena, Golding, Cascade for warm dry-hopping

Yeast: De Struise House Ale

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Solidarity
Baltic Porter
ABV: 8%
IBU: 18
OG: 21.1 degrees Plato
Solidarity or Death
In the 1980’s, the Solidarity trade union movement in Poland helped end the
Communist Party’s hegemony. In 2011, we watched as Wisconsin fought its own battles against repression. We tip our hats to Solidarity, both as a concept and a movement, with this robust liquid reminder of Baltic foresight in activism … and strong beer.

Malts: Special Pale; Simpsons Aromatic, Dark Crystal, Chocolate and Black; CaraPils

Hops: Magnum in the kettle; Willamette in the whirlpool

Yeast: Common Lager

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Thunderfoot
Cherried Imperial Stout
ABV: 12%
IBU: 90
OG: 25.2 Plato
Ultimate Urban Renewal
There can be no doubt. Thunderfoot actively renounces the gentle tweak, the mild revision, and the imperceptible hint. Thunderfoot neither seeks to make a plausible case for adaptive reuse, nor can it be bothered with the nuances of historical preservation. Thunderfoot puts its elongated foot squarely down, advocating your palate’s restructuring the old-fashioned way – whole cloth, entire, complete, irresistible, certain and inevitable.

Malts: Special Pale, Simpson's Roasted Barley, Simpson's Dark Crystal, Flaked Oats

Hops: UK Challenger, Willamette

Special treatment: Hop-backed with dried Bing tart cherries. Aged for one year on oak and dried tart cherries.

Yeast: House English

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Tunnel Vision
ABV: 9.5%
IBU: 20
OG: 22.1 degrees Plato
The Ultimate in Sexy Subterranean Chic
Those hardy immigrant gnomes who came from the venerable hills of the Ardennes to take up residence beneath the mysterious Knobs of Southern Indiana get lonely, too. That’s why NABC gave them Tunnel Vision, a potion reminiscent of home, and sufficiently versatile for consumption in all seasons -- and on all continents.

Malts: Castle Pale, Castle Aromatic, Weyermanns Vienna, Flaked Rye, Honey Malt

Hops: Magnum

Special: Orange Peel, Coriander

Yeast: Belgian Chouffe

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Yakima
Rye India Pale Ale
ABV: 7.5%
IBU: 130
OG: 17 degrees Plato
How the Midwest Was Won
“Yakima is simple in design: This beer is for me, the hophead Brewmaster here in the land of no coast. After many years of liquid research, the time came to satisfy my inner desire to craft a Rye IPA so immaculate that it would ‘up’ our revolution even further. Mission accomplished.” -- Jared Williamson

Malts: Rahr 2-row, Flaked Rye, Weyermann CaraFoam

Hops: Columbus, Centennial, Cascade

Yeast: House ale

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Cask-conditioned NABC (pin at the NABC station; tapping time TBA):

Scotch-pin-aged Quadrageddon
It’s Belgian, it’s strong, and that’s all any of us know. Aged in a wooden pin that formerly held Lagavulin-conditioned JW Lees Vintage Harvest Ale

Scotch-pin-aged Solidarity
As above; Baltic Porter aged in a wooden pin that formerly held Lagavulin-conditioned JW Lees Vintage Harvest Ale.

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Cask-conditioned NABC (firkins at the real ale tent):

Beak’s Best
American ESB
ABV: 5.3%
IBU: 35
OG: 14.75 degrees Plato
American Bitter & Soul Liniment
Brewed with English malts and American hops, and named in honor of globetrotting historian and educator Don "Beak" Barry. You really need to meet the Beak, and sample his ale.

Malts: Simpsons Golden Promise, Simpsons Medium Crystal, Castle (Belgian) Aromatic and Special B

Hops: Triple hopped with Cascade pellets

Yeast: House English

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Community Dark
English Dark Mild
ABV: 3.7%
IBU: 12.5
OG: 11.5 degrees Plato
Inside Is What Counts
Indiana State Fair Brewers Cup gold medal winner, 2011. Inspired by traditional English Mild, the style that fueled the factory workers who made the Industrial Revolution, Community Dark is revolutionary in its own way: Dark-colored but light-bodied, and a session ale suitable for New Albany’s emerging downtown renaissance.

Malts: Special Pale, Dark Crystal and Chocolate malts

Hops: Double hopped with EK Golding

Yeast: House London

Drinking and dining with the dead, courtesy of Gregg Seidl.

On Saturday night, we signed on with the nefarious local historian Gregg Seidl for his Drinking With the Dead Haunted History Tour. It was three and a half hours of great stories and Open Air fun, as accompanied by adult beverages at five downtown establishments. Gregg also offers Dining With the Dead Haunted History Tour, with the emphasis on a meal at Habana Blues. The two tours alternate on Saturdays through September 24, and complete details about each can be gleaned by following the highlighted links to Facebook.

Sandkerwa NA 5 at the Pizzeria & Public House begins on September 12.

NABC’s Sandkerwa NA is our Bavarian-themed draft beer “tap takeover” festival. It originated five years ago as a tribute to Bamberg’s annual late August street festival of the same name.

In the beginning, our aim was to source imported specialties from Bamberg and Franconia, and by doing so, to celebrate the Bavarian brewing and stylistic heritage at the Pizzeria & Public House. Like most other such endeavors, Sandkerwa is evolving, owing both to intent and circumstance.

Two years ago, the Shelton Brothers importing company made Anstich kegs available for the first time, and we repeated the Anstich emphasis in 2010. It’s hard to imagine a better way to honor Franconian brewing than Anstich kegs, which are gravity-pour barrels. The innovative Shelton program made it possible to obtain freshly filled kegs from small Franconia breweries that otherwise didn’t export, or exported very little.

Unfortunately, Shelton and Cavalier Distributing have not yet been able to completely iron out their various issues, although I’m told that talks are ongoing to get Shelton’s unparalleled line back into Indiana. I’ve asked whether any choices from the forthcoming Anstich shipment have a chance of reaching us for Sandkerwa’s 5th edition, and the reply: Not likely.

Seeing as there’s no sense in crying over spilled “ungespundetes” Lagerbier, we’ve adapted Sandkerwa to fit what we can do, as opposed to what we can’t do.

The starting date will be Monday, September 12, at the Pizzeria & Public House. In addition to our usual Schlenkerla, Eric and Ben have pre-ordered Oktoberfests from America and Germany, and as augmented by beers representing other Bavarian (and greater German) styles, these will comprise the bulk of the Sandkerwa program for 2011.

On Saturday, September 17, the NABC will take the occasion of Strassenfest at the New Albany Riverfront Amphitheater to debut our first-ever batches of Helles and Marzen, both brewed with Andechs yeast. There’ll also be Keller Pils, and possibly Smoked Abzug.

As an added bonus, we’ll tap an Anstich keg of Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche – delicious oak-smoked Rauchbier, which comes to us from the B. United importing firm, which still is going strong in Indiana.

Shelton’s absence from Indiana hurts, but it does not kill, and therein lies a valuable lesson. As much as we miss Shelton’s wonderful portfolio, and wish for it to return, there are so many fine beers available nowadays that the wait is far from intolerable.

Hopheads, rejoice: The Omega is here.

The Omega (Ωμέγα) is a parting gift from former NABC brewmaster Jared Williamson, and in his inimitable style, it's an India Pale Common. Looking at the numbers and ingredients, we see a substantial commitment to dry hopping, and our house California Common yeast adding its own special twist.

The Omega (Ωμέγα)
Style: India Pale Common
Malts: Rahr 2-row, CaraMalt, Aromatic, Carafoam, Vienna
Mash Hops: Columbus, Summit
Kettle Hops: Columbus, Summit, Galena, Centennial
Dry Hops: Columbus, Summit, Centennial (2 lbs each = 1.5 lbs dry hop/bbl)
Yeast: Common Lager Yeast
OG: 1060
IBUs: 130
ABV: 6.4%

Currently, The Omega is on tap at Bank Street Brewhouse. It is awaiting a slot at the Pizzeria & Public House. It's a small R & D batch, so act decisively.

Finding пиво in Leningrad, 1987.

In Russian, the word for beer is пиво, and in the first photo, the пиво truck is refilling the kiosk's пиво tank early in the morning of July 2, 1987. The city is Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.

In the second photo, at a different пиво kiosk later on the same day, Nick (the bearded one) has queued for a short, cool one. We both waited patiently in line for a good while, paid a few kopecks, and received our golden lagers.

Because the glasses (all three of them) were for sharing, we chugged the beers rather quickly and moved along, lest the queue become boisterous.

LouisvilleBeer.com is up and running, and my column is there.

LouisvilleBeer.com is up and live: http://louisvillebeer.com/.

Previously, I wrote the introduction to this new beer site: Read my essay about the new http://LouisvilleBeer.com, launching on August 1.

At LouisvilleBeer.com, site founders John Campbell and John Wurth seek to offer a one-stop shop for Louisville area craft brewing information. It's something we need, and I believe they can provide it.

I'm happy to reiterate that LouisvilleBeer.com will be the new home of my beer column, formerly published in LEO. Apart from a series of "Wednesday Weekly" essays here at Potable Curmudgeon, the column has been dormant since June of 2010, for reasons explained here: A tale of two columns.

As with my LEO "Mug Shots" column of old, now rebranded as "Baylor on Beer," publication at LouisvilleBeer.com will be bi-monthly. This might increase in frequency if there's time to write, and when special events come along to suggest more detailed coverage.

Unlike the largely spurious reason for the termination of my LEO gig, I'll actually be able to write the truth about mass market beer when the mood strikes me, as it did with today's first "Baylor on Beer" essay: Know Your Enemy.

When I know more about the schedule for Baylor on Beer, I'll let you know, although it is probable that I'll provide at least some coverage of the Great Taste of the Midwest on Saturday, August 13.

Haven't our fighting men and women endured enough hardship?

Bob Ostrander, his book & a pub quiz at the Public House on Wed., Aug. 31.

Check out the retro Public House signage!

On Wednesday, August 31, Bob Ostrander will be in New Albany to discuss his new book. Stay tuned for further details, and get the scoop on Bob's book.

Glimpsing men at work.

I took the camera with me to yesterday's meeting at NABC's original Grant Line Road location, and snapped a few images of Sam Cruz and Ben Minton hard at work in the heat and humidity of the R & D Brewery. The photos are at Facebook.

One Fine Day at NABC's R & D Brewery

We remain very appreciative to Sam for the brief months we'll have him on duty. Soon, he'll be productively engaged at Against the Grain, For now, Sam's the professional bridge to Jared's permanent replacement, and it's been a pure pleasure working with him.

This Saturday: The Undertow Art Show "Against the Current," in support of Planned Parenthood.

It's coming this Saturday (July 30), it's on Facebook, and it's a LEO staff pick:

Saturday, July 30

The Undertow Art Show

The Art Store
205 E. Market St., New Albany, IN
812-948-2088

Free; 2-11 p.m.

The intent of this, the latest in a thankfully never-ending stream of art/bands/beer events, is to support Planned Parenthood of Indiana. If this doesn’t speak to your interests, move on, it’s a free country. The organizers state, “The goal of this group exhibit is to showcase artists with a message.” Such artists have been invited to participate by expressing their take on pressing issues of the day (just like the hippies did!), such as the economy, the wars and other “natural” disasters. “From the creation of art, we can open conversation and reach new depths of communication,” they pledge. And did I mention the beer? New Albanian Brewing Company will be selling their drinkable art, and bands like Shawn Sleeps Naked and Bunny Day and the Mercy Buckets will provide the aural art. — Peter Berkowitz

People's Brewing Company Day at the Public House, with numerous other Indiana-brewed beers also on tap.

Chris Johnson, owner and brewer at People's Brewing Company, will be at the Public House tonight to help us celebrate the simultaneous tapping of six of his beers. Of course, the beers pictured below will be poured for consumption at the Pizzeria throughout the day, and the Public House opens at 5:00 p.m.

In addition, as the guest draft list shows, seven other Indiana-brewed beers (from Flat 12, Oaken Barrel, Sun King, Three Floyds and Upland) bring the total of Hoosier guest taps to 13.

But that's not counting NABC's own drafts: 15 of them, currently on tap. That's 28 Indiana beers in all, on tap at the Public House, right now.

Ideas for Strassenfest? It's coming to NA's Riverfront Amphitheater on Saturday, Sept. 17.

This much is clear: New Albany’s second annual Strassenfest will be held on Saturday, September 17 at the Riverfront Amphitheater. Once again, admission is free.

New Albanian Brewing Company (NABC) is coordinating beverage catering for this date, and we’re going to be doing something we haven’t done before: Using genuine Bavarian yeast from Kloster Andechs to make Helles and Marzen (Oktoberfest) lagers. As with last year’s Strassenfest, there’ll be a tie-in with Louisville Craft Beer Week. There’ll also be wine, and perhaps an inaugural tasting of German schnapps. Other components of the day, including music and food, are still in the planning stages.

It is instructive to note that while many Americans instinctively associate the concept of Oktoberfest with the Bavarian style of its celebration, other locales in Germany are less bound to the template. An autumnal harvest fete can take numerous forms, and with Bavarian-style beers providing the consistent thread, there’s plenty of room for us to improvise in New Albany, especially seeing we have no German heritage organization in Southern Indiana the equivalent of the Celts on the River group.

What can be done to expand New Albany’s embryonic Strassenfest beyond the stereotypical Oktoberfest party, while retaining sufficient German themes to make the day worthy of the name? Even I’m not sure, but the possibilities intrigue me, and ideas are welcomed.

If we could just get Kraftwerk to headline … at any rate, as you brainstorm, here’s a September/October calendar check:

September 11
Sandkerwa NA begins at NABC’s Pizzeria & Public House. It is our annual draft-only homage to German beer styles, including American craft brewery interpretations.

September 16 – 24
Louisville Craft Beer Week, with events throughout Metro Louisville

September 17
Strassenfest at New Albany’s Riverfront Amphitheater

October 1
Harvest Homecoming Parade in New Albany

October 6 – 9
Harvest Homecoming Booth Days (and NABC’s 4th Annual Fringe Fest at Bank Street Brewhouse)

October 28
Reverse Recycling & Decommissioning Party at NABC Bank Street Brewhouse. Leticia Bajuyo will be dismantling her temporary Bicentennial Art Project sculpture, “All Bottled Up,” and recycling components

Be careful out there.

My friend JC made this report on my Facebook page.

I went to New Albany Country Club (NACC Grille) for dinner. Food was excellent two consecutive days. Of course, the usual happened after making a stop in New Albany, got stopped by a State Trooper! This crap has got to stop!

I responded: "Not sure how that might be done. How does one acquire proof of intent to harass?" Obviously, this has been an on-going issue, and for more than a little while. I persist in avoiding battles that cannot be won, because this is one of them.

JC also offered this witticism. Perhaps sarcasm really is the best weapon?

Found this on their web site! Well, sort of ...

Indiana State Police Mission Statement

The Indiana State Police shall provide the most professional, effective and courteous police service possible at all times and with every endeavor.

The protection of life and property will be our primary focus, after we close all night life businesses in downtown New Albany.

We will uphold and defend federal and Indiana state constitutions and enforce all laws, after we close all night life businesses in downtown New Albany.

We will address crimes and offenders with diligent, conscientious and proactive initiatives, as patrons leave downtown New Albany night life businesses.

We will ensure public safety on our roadways with vigorous and directed traffic enforcement, after closing up downtown New Albany.

We will assist the public and all police agencies at any time and in any manner possible, especially the New Albany Police Department.

Anticipation builds as Browning's site yields to Against the Grain.

Mrs. Curmudgeon accompanied me to the Louisville Bats game Tuesday night, with prime front row seats on the third base side of home plate courtesy of my friend Brent (we thank you again). The beer situation inside the turnstiles is the same: Cumberland Red and BBC APA at the peanut stand by Section 115.

But the overall beer outlook is about to become appreciably better, thanks to the commencement of renovations at the former Browning's, soon to become Against the Grain Brewing. It is an understatement of epic dimension to note the Louisville beer community's excitement at the advent of ATG.

You can observe their progress at Facebook.

Bob Ostrander's new book is called, "Hoosier Beer."

Our old friend Bob Ostrander's new book is called Hoosier Beer: Tapping into Indiana Brewing History (the co-author is Derrick Morris), and here's the introduction.

Indiana became a state in 1816 and in that year our first two commercial breweries opened. Since then over 350 licensed breweries have offered cool, refreshing beer to Hoosiers, made by Hoosiers. 200 years of history.

Hoosier Beer chronicles, city by city, the rise from small family backyard breweries, breweries at religious orders, large factory breweries, two prohibition periods, massive mega-conglomerates, brewpubs, and back to small family-owned breweries that offer a wide variety of beers directly to customers fresh at the brewery.

Bob will be appearing at the Public House soon to plug the book and conduct a fun and educational pub quiz. Stay tuned for the date and time; our people are talking to his people as I write ... well, maybe.

Stop "reaching out" before I tear your arm off.

I receive solicitations on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis. Almost all of them are for a worthy cause, and I generally respond by donating one of my personal, guided tasting certificates, which do well in silent auction formats. Admittedly, I'm finding it a bit tedious to be asked to donate multiple kegs of beer for your fundraisers, but that's a different topic.

Today I received this e-mail; names and organizations have been removed to protect those about to be berated.

My name is ( ... ) and I am emailing you on behalf of ( ... ). I wanted to reach out and give you an opportunity to participate in our first annual Oktoberfest fundraiser to be held ...

Pay attention, world, and observe these words carefully:

I wanted to reach out ...

That's what I thought you wrote. Note that THE CURMUDGEON HATES THIS CONTEMPTIBLE, LAZY, TRENDY USAGE!

You can request, ask, demand, beg, implore or connive, and there's a good chance I will finish reading your words or listening to you speak. But, henceforth, any solicitation I receive that bears any trace of this lingustic "reach out" repugnance will be unceremoniously trashed.

You have been warned. Carry on.

A private party closes Bank Street Brewhouse for the day this Thursday, July 21.

This Thursday (July 21), Bank Street Brewhouse will be closed to the public all day for a large private party. We hope this does not inconvenience any of you, and remind you that the original Pizzeria & Public House will be open as usual to serve your craft beer and pizza needs.

Judges and stewards needed for the Kentucky State Fair Homebrew Beer Competition on Sunday, August 14.

From Tom Person, Vice President of Louisville Area Grain and Extract Research Society (LAGERS). Regrettably for me, the judging always takes place the same weekend as Great Taste of the Midwest.

Fellow BJCP judges and appreciators of fine homebrew:

The Kentucky State Fair Homebrew competition is coming up soon. It will be held Sunday, August 14th ... starting at 10:00 a.m. sharp. We are anticipating up to 500 entries this year, so your exhaustive beer knowledge and superb sensory and judging skills are sorely needed and will be greatly appreciated. Judge registration will be from 9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m., with a light breakfast available (so come early!)

We are planning on two judging sessions: an a.m. session (10:00 – 12:00), and a p.m. session (1:00 – 3:00) ... with a lunch provided between sessions. The p.m. session will be followed by a Best of Show judging, and after wards we are planning an awards ceremony to announce the winners.

Use the link below to register to be a judge or steward at this competition:

http://www.lagersclub.com/kystatefair/competition/

Here are the steps once you get to this site:

1. Under the Judge and Steward section ... If it is your first time to this site, then click on the “please register” link. Note: If you have already entered beers with the 2011 Kentucky State Fair competition this year, then you already have an ID. Just click the “log in” link.

2. The first page is where you create your account with an e-mail address, a password for this site, and a security question.

3. Second page is where you put in your name, address, etc.

4. Third page is where you put in your judge info ... BJCP number, rank, beer preferences and dislikes, etc. Under the beer preferences and dislikes, just select any one of the sub-categories that you like or dislike. We will consider your choice to be for all beers in that class. Example: I want to judge Stouts, so I check 13A – Dry Stout. (you don’t have to check all 6 stout categories)

When you have completed your judge registration, there will be a summary page, and you will also see a link to print your Judge Waiver sheet. Please use this link to view and print your judge registration sheet, sign and date it, and then bring it with you to the competition. (If you don’t print it at home, don’t worry ... you’ll just have to sit there the morning of the competition, blurry-eyed, and fill out one of these forms while every one else is drinking coffee and eating donuts!)

Thank you for your help in judging the 2011 Kentucky State Fair Homebrew Competition.