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VOLUME 1, NO. 24 | 9 SEPTEMBER 2011
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Sailor faces charges in traffic fatality A 52-year-old Kitsap motorist was killed By KAITLIN STROHSCHEIN For the Kitsap Navy News
A car crash near the intersection of Sedgwick and Long Lake roads in late
SEE WRECK | PAGE 5 Warner Scott shows off the second place ribbon from the Amber/Brown category as his brewing partner Corey Shoemaker shows off their winning entry at the Sept. 2 awards ceremony for the sixth annual Kitsap County Fair Home Brew Competition. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO
Master brewers, salute Kitsap sailors brew up the best in local beers for recent contest By Tom James tjames@kitsapnavynews,com
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wo sailors received category ribbons Friday in the sixth annual Kitsap County Fair Home Brew Competition, organized by Kitsap’s West Sound Brewers homebrew club. Warner Scott took home the second place in the Amber/Brown category along with his brewing partner Corey Shoemaker for their entry, Holy Hoppy Red, Batman, while Bobby Hashman received first place in the Porter/Stout category for his Hash Porter. “When you make it yourself,” said Scott, “you definitely feel good knowing where it came from.” Of his and his partner’s entry, he said, “I didn’t
name it.” Around 20 to 30 people attended the event, mostly brewers with entries in the contest. Many brought friends and family to hear brewer Matt Riggs, of Silver City Brewery, announce the results at the business’ new Bremerton brewing facility. Amid huge stainless steel brewing tanks and bags of grain piled high on pallets, the crowd gathered around a folding table covered in brown bottles, as Riggs, in overalls and rubber boots, handed out the ribbons one by one. The contest featured eight categories of beer: IPA, Amber/Brown, Lager/Hybrid, Porter/Stout, Wheat, Strong, and Other Ale. The latter included fruit beers, beers made with smoked grain, and other specialty beers. Hashman said the batch he received his ribbon for was the first he had ever brewed, and that the win came as a bit of a surprise. Although he brewed it from a recipe he got at Olympic Brewing Supplies, he said that factors like fermentation
time and temperature have a significant effect on the final product. “It’s a lot like cooking. You’re following a recipe, but you’re adding things and taking them away,” Hashman said. Another factor that he said made his beer unique was temperature – “that changed a lot, because I brewed it in my garage.” Although the event has only been going on for six years, said Sean Brooks, a manager at Olympic Brewing Supplis, the club itself is approaching its twentieth anniversary. Many of the club’s original members went on to found local beer-related enterprises, including Hood Canal Brewery, Sound Brewing, Slippery Pig Brewing and Valhöll Brewing, said Brooks. Scott said he got started brewing about seven years ago, when he was stationed in Hawaii aboard the USS Bremerton. At the time, he said, it was something to do, and since his equipment was limited to a few fivegallon buckets, it was something he was able to take with him when he
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THIS EDITION Veteran’s Bunkhouse to close Sunday ...................pg. 2 Death at NBK ........pg.
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A night without power, Sarah Smiley ....................pg. 4 USS Menhaden Mastered the Orient ............ pg. 13