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A listener from the wilds of Kentucky visited the Craft Beer Radio studios armed with a trunk load of beers from the Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan area. We attempt to break out some special beers from the cellar but that didn’t carry favor with the beer gods. In hopes to change our fortunes we finish up with a couple Three Floyds beers that Rick brought.

Beers:

• Maui CoCoNut Porter
• Hitichino Next XH
• Monk’s Café Flemish Sour Red Ale
• Three Floyds Gumball Head
• Three Floyds Fantabulous Resplendence XI Anniversary Ale

Ranking:

• Greg: 1. Maui, 2. Resplendence, 3. Monk’s, 4. Gumballhead
• Jeff: 1. Maui, 2. Resplendence, 3. Gumballhead, 4. Monk’s, 5. Hitichino Nest
• Rick: 1. Maui, 2. Resplendence, 3. Gumballhead, 4. Hitichino Nest, 5. Monk’s

Extras:

• Preshow
• Posthow

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Jeff interviews Sean Wilson from Fullsteam Brewery in Durham North Carolina. Fullsteam is planning on doing some pretty interesting beers using southern ingredients. We talk about what it takes to open a brewery and how Fullsteam is going at it.

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All,

Registration for the twenty-sixth annual Dixie Cup is open.

Dixie Cup XXVI

Please consider entering this competition to support the Foam Rangers, in Houston, Texas. If you’d like to steward or judge, please feel free to contact me.

We’ve some cool T-shirts you can buy, too. Be the envy of your neighbors!

front:

back:

Scott
http://texanbrew.com

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A few weeks ago Jeff was in Durham Northa Carolina and had dinner and beers with Daniel Bradford from All About Beer Magazine at Tylers Taproom. We chat about many things beer.

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The Underground Brewers of Connecticut will host the 2009 Southern New England Homebrew Competition on October 25 in Newtown, CT. This is a BJCP-sanctioned event accepting entries in all BJCP categories of beer, cider, and mead.

Online registration is now open at http://www.undergroundbrewers.org/snerhc/index.php.

We really, really need judges. BJCP certification not necessary. Please consider volunteering.

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What can you say about Texas? Don’t mess with it! We certainly hope it doesn’t secede from the Union, because then we’d have to pay import taxes on some very good beers.

Beers:
Southern Star Bombshell Blonde
Southern Star Pine Belt Pale Ale
Saint Arnold Divine Reserve #7
Saint Arnold Divine Reserve #6
Real Ale Brewing Company Sisyphus (2007, 2008)

Rankings:

• Jeff: St. Arnold Reserve #6, Bombshell, Sisyphus 07, St. Arnold Reserve #7, Pine Belt, Sisyphus 08
• Greg: Bombshell, St. Arnold Reserve #6, Pine Belt, Sisyphus 07, St. Arnold Reserve #7, Sisyphus 08

Preshow
Postshow [ Jupiter ]

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Is anyone using a sanke keg to ferment? I have one that I liberated from a recycling scrap yard that is in good shape and saw this
http://www.brewershardware.com/fermenter.htm

How the heck would you clean it after transferring the beer out? I am thinking it looks like agreat product, but cant wrap my head around how you could get it all cleaned out.

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