November 1998 Volume 21, Issue 11

Webmaster's Introduction

by M. Wood

Welcome to this months edition of the Draught Notice, the monthly publication of the Draught Board homebrew club of San Leandro. This month had quite a few interesting article for your reading enjoyment. Below is a quick summary of the articles.

IBU experiment. by Bob Jones
Bob writes a nice little summary of last months IBU experiment where we sent known beers for laboratory analysis and compared the results with a blind tasting by members. The results were some what surprising.

Food pairing experiment by Lisa Gros
Our club president writes about here food pairing and taste perception experiment conducted at the September meeting. Find out if complimentary of contrasting tastes were perceived more appropriately together.

Competition Corner by Bryan Gros
Bryan gives an update to our upcoming brewing competition... The Bay Area Brew Off (also known as BABO 99). Styles categories, venues, and sponsorship is explained but we need member help to make it a successful event.

Altbier book review by Bryan Gros
One of the newest books available of the "Classic Beer Style Series" from Brewers Publication is a new book on Alt style beers. Check out the review to see if you would like to add it to your brewing resource library.

Speech by Fritz Maytag at the NCHF 98
Listen to an excerpt from the speech that the founder and owner of Anchor Steam gave at the northern California Homebrewers Festival using RealAudio (TM).

Broken Drum Brewery by Thor
One of the newest brewpubs to open in San Rafael. Thor gives a quick review of the brewery, beer, food, ambiance. Menu and map included. See if its going to make it to your brewcrawl to do list.

Temperature probes by Thor
Check out some of the newest ways to monitor the temperature in your homebrewery. Thor reviews a couple of stand alone digital temperature meters available from local suppliers.

Anyways....
Enough gabbing. Have fun reading.

Michael Wood, webmaster