Best week ever! My name was called at NHC...

...for the American Homebrewers Association 10th Annual Lallemand Scholarship.

SO unless there's another Derek Freese with an active AHA membership, I just won a two week trip to Siebel for their concise course in brewing technology, plus $1000 bucks to spend while I am there.

First my two ribbons last weekend, now this. I am stoked right now.

Course:
WBA Concise Course in Brewing Technology

Scholarship page:
Lallemand Scholarship

Very cool!!! You should share your now award winning recipes!

Congrats!! I'm sue I'm not the only person jealous right now.

Awesome!!!!

Congrats, too bad you can't choose the location of choice. It would be awesome to take the course in Munich.

brewt00l said:

Very cool!!! You should share your now award winning recipes!

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The recipes are not anything special. I mean they're close enough to things you find on the internet or in books that posting them would be redundant. Follow guidelines and good brewing techniques, and any solid recipe can be a winner.

Awesome! Congrats. I'm sure it's safe to say we're all insanely jealous.

Awesome!

That's like a $3,000 course. Be sure to take lots of notes, your brain will probably be on overload by the end...

Awsome Derrick, congrats! Do you get to bring a guest?

Very Nice!
Enjoy the Opportunity and share with us what you learn.

Congrats! It is good to see someone with good taste win!

Freakin' awesome! Congrats dude!

That is frikkin SCHWEET! You know you are one lucky person, right?? Congrats!

hmm. I wonder why they didn't call you carnevoodoo?

carnevoodoo said:

The recipes are not anything special. I mean they're close enough to things you find on the internet or in books that posting them would be redundant. Follow guidelines and good brewing techniques, and any solid recipe can be a winner.

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Yeah, but folks still like to brew "award winning recipes"....what the hell, toss em up and bask in the glory!

Congrats. Some people play six degrees with Kevin Bacon, I like to play 6 degrees with homebrewers. I know more famous homebrewers than I do actors.

Enjoy the course.

Congratulations, man!

brewt00l said:

Yeah, but folks still like to brew "award winning recipes"....what the hell, toss em up and bask in the glory!

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I put up the Southern English Brown. The blonde is very close to the centennial blonde on here. I modified the hop schedule (Simcoe and Cascade) and adjusted for my efficiency. Then I used White Labs Cali V instead of Notty. Well, I used Cali V in one fermenter and I used S-05 in the other. The Cali V didn't dry out as much and left an amazing fruity, almost melon-like nose. The S-05 dried out more and it is more hop forward and less balanced. I think the Cali V made this beer. Fermented at 67 degrees.

So yeah, the centennial blonde, no centennial. Different yeast. Slight modification for efficiency. That's it.

Congrats dude. On a completely unrelated note, my house is on a street named after your family.

Congrats you are a very lucky man.

I did not win this. You suck!!!


On a side note. Maybe if I bought the membership.......

Congratulations!

Congrats! I was there when they called your name, but had no idea who you were. That is a very nice prize!

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:

I did not win this. You suck!!!


On a side note. Maybe if I bought the membership.......

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Yeah. If I ever thought my AHA membership didn't pay off... Needless to say I am pretty much a member for life at this point.

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:

I did not win this. You suck!!!

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Thanks you. While reading this thread, I was beginning to think that decorum and civility had infected this forum.

congrats, I'm jealous!