This past Monday, I had the privilege of appearing on the Fox 19 Morning News show. Excecutive Chef Jackson Rouse from smoQ and I went down to do some food and beer pairings, as well as talk about Cincinnati Beer Week happening February 2nd thr 9th and the 5th Annual Cincy Winter Beerfest! We had some great food and beer pairings, including two homebrews-both winners of the Cincinnati Malt Infusers' Oktobersbest homebrew competition! Ellzebelle, a Belgian Stout was brewed by the Cincinnati Malt Infuser's own Will Magnuszewski and won the 2010 Oktobesbest homebrew competition. Will then brewed his winner at Rivertown Brewing! It went to the 2011 Cincy Winter Beerfest as the Official Beerfest Beer, then out to Denver, Colorado with Rivertown Brewing as a Pro-AM entry at the Great American Beer Festival!
The other homebrew was the 2011 CMI Oktobersbest Homebrew Competition winner! Local homebrewer Scott LaFollette won, beating out 264 other entries with his Brett Stout, a Russian Imperial Stout barrel aged with Brettanomyces. Scott, a member of the Bloatarian Brewing League and the Cincinnati Malt Infusers has brewed his winning entry out at Rivertown Brewing as well. It will be at the 5th Annual Cincy Winter Beerfest as the Official Beer, then go on out to the 2012 Great American Beer Festival as a Pro-Am Entry! Scott is also starting his own craft brewery, called Blank Slate Beer. It just goes to show how you can make your own great homebrew and do wonderful things with it! We have everything you need at Table Top Brewing to do just that, so stop on by!
If you want to see the Fox 19 Appearence, you can find it at: Fox 19: Cincinnati Beer Week & Cincy Winter Beerfest.
Speaking of Cincinnati Beer Week, we have three great events scheduled now! First up is our Table Top & Yelp! Homebrew 101 event happening on Friday, February 3rd from 6pm-10pm! This event is now full, but you can sign up for the waiting list at Yelp! by clicking here. On Tuesday, February 7th, Bob Wimberg, historian and author of Cincinnati Breweries will be in store to talk about Cincinnati's brewing history and sign copies of his great book, beginning at 6:00pm. This serves as a warm up to our Cultivating Hops Seminar, beginning at 6:30pm with Table Top co-owner/co founder Tom Wehner. This seminar is FREE and you will receive one FREE hop rhizome to take home and grow, simply for attending.
We will also be at the 5th Annual Cincy Winter Beerfest on February 10th & 11th! Each day, Tom will be conducting a homebrew demonstration at our booth. Stop by and check it out! For those of you interested in entering the Cincinnati Malt Infusers' All-American Ale Competition, you can do so at this link: http://allamericanale.brewcompetition.com/index.php
