6 Wednesday, December 2010 // The Statement
HOME BREW
COMPETITION WINNERS
Last Thursday we hosted the second annual Michigan Daily home brew competition at our offices at 420 Maynard. Three certified judges from the Ann Arbor
Brewer's Guild, with more than 60 years of combined judging experience, helped us rate 24 different samples. The judging itself turned out to be just as much an
art as the craft of brewing. They sniffed and swirled and tilted and tasted - all the while jotting down notes about hop levels and head retention. Beers were judged
on five basic criteria: aroma, appearance, flavor, mouthfeel and overall impression. And after more than two hours of smelling, tasting and eliminating, three beers
remained. Here's a look at the three winners.
Wednesday, December 2010 The Statement 3B
news in review
Five of the most talked-about stories of the week, ranked in ascending order of actual importance
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British novelist Rowan Somerville
won this year's Literary Review Bad
Sex award for a sex scene in his
book "The Shape of Her" involving
insect imagery. The prize is meant
to steer writers away from writing
poorly written sex scenes.
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A Pentagon survey revealed that a The European Commission A 15-year-old gunman held his
clear majority of soldiers wouldn't launched an investigation into class of 24 students and one
mind serving in the military with Google after several compet- teacher hostage at a Wisconsin
openly gay soldiers, and 70 percent ing websites alleged that Google high school for almost five hours,
of soldiers surveyed said repealing abuses its power by manipulating until he shot himself fatally when
"don't ask, don't tell" would have its search results by prioritizing police stormed the classroom. He
"positive, mixed or no results." paid content. didn't hurt anyone else.
WikiLeaks released a quarter-mil-
lion confidential American docu-
ments, revealing diplomatic cables
portraying foreign leaders nega-
tively. The Justice Department
and the Pentagon are investigating
the organization.
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RICHARD
FIFTH-YEAR GRADUATE
STUDENT, MICROBIOLOGY
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turbo malt, flaked
wheat, flaked oats,
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orange peel
Last year, when Aimee Richard
entered her beer into The Michigan
Daily's home brew competition, she
unknowingly submitted a contami-
nated batch. It's pretty safe to say
that Richard's brew was nowhere
near the top in the judges' rankings.
This year, however, Richard made
quite the turnaround, taking home
top honors for with her Belgian
Whitbier.
This is the first time Richard, who
has been home brewing for about
two years, has attempted this style
of beer.
"At first, I wasn't that thrilled with
this beer," Richard wrote on her blog,
tharshebrews.com, where she chron-
icles her home brewing attempts. "I
thought it was a bit too sweet, and it
wasn't as carbonated as I'd like."
Richard brewed the winning
batch in the end of July, and the lon-
ger the beer sat the better she felt
about it.
"Over time, I liked it more and
more ... the carbonation picked up,
and it started to taste a bit more bal-
anced," she wrote.
Richard is not unaccustomed to
receiving accolades for her brewing.
Only a few months into the craft,
Richard entered a batch into a home
brew competition at the Corner
Brewery in Ypsilanti, winning first
place in her category.
Richard even has distant plans to
take her brewing to the next level.
"I can see myself brewing for a
long time," she said. "It would be
really nice to at some point retire and
open up my own brewery."
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quotes of the week on the cheap
"RIP, Leslie Nielsen. Shirley, he will be missed." drinking good beer on the cheap
RUSSELL BRAND, comedic British actor, via his Twitter account, mourning the
84-year-old Canadian "Airplane!" actor's death.
"This was a gift. We aren't thieves. We didn't do anything'
wrong."
DANIELLE LE GUENNEC, wife of Picasso's retired electrician, who claims to
have been holding onto 271 undocumented works of Pablo Picasso's in a trunk in
his garage after Picasso's second wife supposedly gave them to him as a gift.
"I was thinking, ifhe gets hit, I can't go to work. It's Sunday.
I can't miss out. It's a time-and-a-half day."
CARLOS FLORES, a grocery clerk in New York City, on saving a man who
fainted and fell onto the city subway tracks in an effort to ensure there PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KATIE EBERTS
wouldn't be subway delays that would make him late for work.'A s college students, we often take for granted that we are going to drink cheap, foul-
tasting beer throughout our time at the University. But push aside your keg of Natty
Light and crush that can of Bud Light, because here are some tips to help you drink good
the rules beer on the cheap.
First, take advantage of happy hours at bars across Ann Arbor. While there are bars
closer to Central Campus that offer drink specials, Main Street in particular has a ton
No. 296: No. 297: No. 298: of happy hour options where you can enjoy good beer at reduced prices. Check out
a2happyhour.com to see a map of Ann Arbor with pins showing where the bars that offer
It's probably time Craft gifts are not It's OK to avoid happy hours are and details like times and specials.
to throw out your OK for Secret Santa. doing laundry until Moreover, there are multiple websites that offer special deals and coupons that will
Thanksgiving We want something you're home on enable you to drink well and cheaply across Ann Arbor. For example. thedealmap.com
Thanksivingallows you to search by category (beer) and city to help find discounted gilt certificates.
leftovers, bought in a store. winter break. And if those tips don't work, you can always try brewing your own.
Have advice for life on the cheap? Let us know E-mail onthecheap@umich.edu.
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