2012 Annual Holiday Party

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Our annual potluck feast was carried off with great success on the evening of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Many thanks to all those who brought food and beer, and special thanks to Chuck and Amelia for hosting it once again this year in the special not-really-square room, complete with wood-fired pizza oven, which was...

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PALE ALERs Featured in BYO Magazine

Aphrodisiac Valentine’s Beers Categories: (Beer Styles | Featured | Jan/Feb 2012) Author Richard Bolster Issue Jan/Feb 2012 Love is in the air in Princeton, New Jersey, or at least the stuff that inspires it. The Princeton And Local Environs Ale And Lager Enthusiasts Society (PALEALES) homebrew club gathered recently for their annual club-only homebrew competition,...

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GuinnessLESS Meeting

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You never know when things are going to go completely pair shaped on you. However, I think we managed to pull off an informative and fun evening despite a “no show” from our scheduled sales rep from Guinness.Luckily, the rep wasn’t bringing the beer! Instead, our host Ed Goracy of Hub City pulled some cases...

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AHA Dark Lager Competition

Just in case someone is sitting on a couple of bottles of dark lager…   Hail to Hefeweizen Club-Only Competition Results are In Who says that Hefeweizen has to be a summer beer style? This third Club-Only Competition saw 60 entries from 29 states competing in BJCP category 15. Thanks to competition organizer Brian Steuerwald...

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The Monster Mash 2: Field of Hops

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The historic porter group brew in Piscataway had it all – some 9am Pilsners, a stuck mash, and suspicious neighbors doing slow drivebys all day long! Piscataway had never seen the likes of it. Due to a supply chain issue, the brewing didn’t get started right away (hence the 9am pilsners). But once we got...

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The Monster Mash was a Brewyard Smash!

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And by “brewyard” I mean the parking lot at Princeton Homebrew where 7 of us did a single mash to produce some 42 gallons of wort. If you have been by Princeton Homebrew lately, you’ve probably laid eyes on the Monster Mash Tun. Its a 60-gallon, stainless steel homebrewers dream. The only problem is that...

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Ithaca Raises the Bar at the Firkin

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Wow, what a meeting! Brewery Rep Extraordinaire, Eric VanZile took us through a series of beers that ticked all the boxes — a session wheat beer, some gigantically hoppy brews and even a 2-year old Belgian quad. Eric’s been at Ithaca for seven years and seems to have had his hands in every aspect of...

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Visit to Harvest Moon Brewery ON the Harvest Moon

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Yes, that’s right — the PALE ALES were at the Harvest Moon Brewery on the actual Harvest Moon of 2011. And what a night it was. For those of you that may have skipped this meeting because you hadn’t been impressed with HM’s selections of the past — its time to give them another try....

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Philly Pub Crawl this Saturday!!

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We’re starting at Monks and wrapping up at the new Frankford Beer Garden. Check out the calendar page for all the details. And for the love of God, start exercising your liver! Here’s a map of the adventure: View 2011 PALE ALES Philly Pub Crawl in a larger map  

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Dead Soldiers – Stylewise

Don’t know how many of you get Joe Six Pack (aka Don Russel). In particular, I found this article on defunct styles interesting, as I must confess I was not familiar with most of them. (If you have ever heard of a Kentucky Common, my hat is off to you!).  I have had the Polish...

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