The Mockingbird
"all the brews that fit..."
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The Premier Pub-lication of the Ohio Meadville District's (Unitarian Universalist) Summer Institute, The Mockingbird reserves the right to report make fun of everything at SI that needs it, and then some. Proudly helping SI campers blow beverages through their noses since 2005! All resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental -- honest, it's the beer talking.
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Mockingbird Issues
Less Humorous Documents That Appeared At Summer Institute Upon a Time
2011 Beer Tasting Workshop 4.0, including the day of homebrew!
BrUUers - please plan to bring samples of your homebrew to share and comment on for the final day of this workshop! I've got some feedback from the Ohio State Fair on my Summer Solstice Ale, and plan for imrovements for next year. What will you bring?
2010 Edition, Volume 6
Sad to say, the Mockingbird is now under new managment. That's all right, the Kollide-o-Scope can use some lightening up...
Besides, the only afternoon workshop I've attended in the last five years has been my own ;-)
2009 Edition, Volume 5
Beer Tasting Workshop 3.0 (1.0 was 2005, 2.0 in '07, '06 was sort of a 1.5; we're going at it again)
Well, I asked homebrewers to bring samples, but this request didn't make it in the brochure, just on this page. Even so, one intrepid homebrewer brought a six to share, and just by accident it was a clone of Columbus Pale Ale, which I had purchased for the workshop that day! The general opinion was the homebrew was better than the commercial model, too ;-)
I also brought some of my latest Mild Brown Ale, but there wasn't anything special there.
Next year we're working on a morning workshop on biological/outdoor themes, so I won't be doing the beer workshop. We may be able to hold a one-day homebrew "competition" of sorts, which wouldn't require as much preparation work. There was also a fair amount of interest in a single-malt Scotch tasting workshop. This could work, if every interested participant brought a bottle to share, and did some research on the history and/or background on the distillery.
See the Beer Styles Handout from 2007, below
2008 Edition, Volume 4
Hey, Hummingbird, nice try; see you again next year?
No Beer Tasting Workshop this year, sorry. It's starting to look like an "odd-numbered year" kind of thing.
2007 Edition, Volume 3
Beer Tasting Workshop
2006 Edition, Volume 2
Evolution and Intelligent Design Workshop
Handouts, References, and Presentations
2005 Edition, Volume 1
Materials on this page are presented in Adobe Acrobat format, requiring the reader if you don't have it installed already:
Ohio Meadville District Summer Institute Official Site (if you prefer)