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Contents:
  Ginger beer (Ralph Link)
  17th Music City Brew-Off Announcement ("Steve Johnson")


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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:46:33 -0500
From: Ralph Link <ralphl at shaw.ca>
Subject: Ginger beer

I would like to make a batch of alcoholic ginger beer. Does anyone have 
a recommendation as to the type of Wyeast I should use and any comments 
on the sugar to use (dextrose, cane sugar, white sugar etc. )
Thanks in advance
Ralph

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:00:32 -0500
From: "Steve Johnson" <sjohnson3 at comcast.net>
Subject: 17th Music City Brew-Off Announcement

To all homebrewers, judges, stewards, and beer enthusiasts,

I personally invite you to the 17th Annual Music City Brew Off.
Our competition this year will be held at the Courtyard Marriott in 
Goodlettsville, TN (865 Conference Drive, 37072).
Room rates for Attendees are $85/night (2 Queen room or King).
Please use the link on our website: www.musiccitybrewers.com or call the 
hotel: 615-851-3000.

This year's special guest will be Chad Yakobson, Head Brewer at Crooked 
Stave Artisan Beer Project. http://www.crookedstave.com/
This year we will be kicking off our festivities with a true southern BBQ 
dinner followed by presentation by our Guest Speaker.

Schedule:
On Friday afternoon we will have a judging session starting at 3 pm. This 
will last for 3 hours.
The dinner and presentation will follow starting at 7 pm.
Saturday morning our BJCP/AHA Sanctioned Competition will continue.
We will have a Judge and Steward orientation beginning at 8:30 am.
Judging will start at 9:00 and end at noon. Lunch will be provided for all 
judges and stewards courtesy of the Music City Brewers.
Judges will be receiving a special gift from the MCB in appreciation of 
their participation.
Following the judging will be the BOS round starting at 2:00 and running 
till 4:00.
The Awards Ceremony and Raffle will begin at 5:00 and run until 7:00.
All 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners from beer categories 1-23 will receive a 
medal and a gift certificate
from Rebel Brewer ($15, $10, and $5 respectively).
Best of Show will also receive a medal and a gift certificate of $150 from 
Rebel Brewer.
2nd and 3rd Best of Show will also receive medals and gift certificates ($75 
for 2nd and $50 for 3rd)
 Best of Meads and Ciders will receive medals as well along with gift 
certificates from Rebel Brewer (1st- $30, 2nd- $15, 3rd- $10).
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Following the awards will be our 3rd annual "Club Crawl". This is basically 
the same as NHC club night with a few "tweaks".
We will have the ballroom set up with tables and jockey boxes where regional 
clubs can bring their beers to showcase.
In addition, this year we are hoping to get the involvement of the local 
craft beer community in Nashville and surrounding cities.
We are hoping to have a variety of local craft breweries serving their beer 
as well as having the regional clubs on hand.
This was a blast last year, so hopefully the fun will continue. If you or 
your club would like to have a table, please contact me to make 
arrangements.
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If interested in Judging/Stewarding please register online at 
www.muciscitybrewrers.com
and contact John Malone at john.malone at belmont.edu with any questions you 
may have.
Hotel Reservations: can be made by going to our website and following the 
link for reservations.
Dinner Reservations: Details to follow. Keep an eye on the website
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Entry and Judge/Steward Registration: is up and running now.
Rules, Regulations and all timelines can be found at 
www.musiccitybrewers.com
Entry registration will close on October 12th . We are accepting entries 
starting on October 12th.
All entries must be at Rebel Brewer by 5 pm on October 19th (No exceptions).
Please ship all entries to: MCBO
C/O: Rebel Brewer Homebrew Supply
105 Space Park North
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
615-859-2188

Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have regarding the 17th 
Annual Music City Brew Off.
John Malone, President & Competition Director
Phone: 615-476-6953
Email: john.malone at belmont.edu
Hope to see you all there! 


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