White Ale Wins at the NABA
I’m proud to announce that we have won a Silver Medal for the John’s Generations White Ale at the North American Brewers Awards. You can see the results here. I’m assuming that the “Blue Mountain” beer that took first place is a misspelling of Blue Moon, since it is made by Coors. I have plenty of respect for that beer, it does a good job of ‘educating’ people about the style. I have to wonder if maybe they made a special batch for the competition though…
We didn’t place with any of our other beers. The Schild Brau is a little surprising, but maybe I should have placed it in the Marzen/Ocktoberfest Category instead of the Vienna lager category. *sigh* It really fits inbetween the categories!
We are quite thrilled two have taken a silver! Those of you who live in Des Moines can go try this wonderful beer at the Red Monk, a new belgian beer bar that has opened up above the Royal Mile in downtown Des Moines. These are the same guys who own the German themed Essen Haus. Tell them how much you love Millstream, and the John’s White Ale in particular. We hope that we gain their respect from this tap, and get taps at the rest of their beer themed establishments.
Today was one of the first hot days in the brewhouse… so summer is here! It only reached 99 Degrees though, so it wasn’t too bad. But the first hot day always zaps the energy out of me as I re-acclimate to the temperature. So I will keep this post short and get back to brewing Schild Brau.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:11 am
Congrats on the award! I’m not as big of a fan of the style as I am of say Vienna Lagers or Marzens, but I must say that I much prefer your White Ale to the Blue Moon. Just has a lot more “robust” flavor, I think.
Will you be making an appearance in Iowa City this Thursday evening?
June 8th, 2004 at 5:49 am
Yea I’ll be in city park serving up Millstream. I hope the weather is good, it should be a fun time.
Its easy to trash the big brewers beers, but really, Blue Moon is a fine beer. I’m happy to find it in bars where there is little good beer to drink. The aroma and color are right on, as is the orange peel, but it is missing the herbal bitterness and tartness of say hoegaarden.
Infact the whole original line up was prett novel. Anyone here remember when Blue Moon came out it was in a sampler pack of 4 different ‘micro’s’ including a raspberry beer, an abbey ale, and some honey beer? Coors wisely dumped the other three and kept the only really drinkable one. Well the abbey ale wasn’t bad, but the other ones pretty much were abandoned at the back of my fridge