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Schneider Weisse Tap X Mein Cuvée Barrique - Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH
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Ratings: 35 | Reviews: 12 | Display Reviews Only:
3.75/5 rDev -6%
07-31-2014 00:09:48 | More by Jayamefu
3.75/5 rDev -6%
06-14-2014 03:12:26 | More by Boston_Steve
3.5/5 rDev -12.3%
02-24-2014 20:08:56 | More by kaelingirl
North Carolina
3.5/5 rDev -12.3%
02-23-2014 04:05:32 | More by lupercmda
4.4/5 rDev +10.3%
750mL bottle poured into a snifter.
(A)- Pours a cloudy mahogany brown color. Minimal white froth.
(S)- Clear notes of dry oak barrel with a wheated graininess to it. Fairly wine-like in a dark jammy fruit sense. Small bits of raisin in the background.
(T)- Very red wine-like with dry oak meeting a wheated spiced body. Almost like a subtle flanders meets a bock without any extreme acidity to it.
(M)- A good carbonation level meets a really nice red wine barrel characteristic. A nice take on a combo of a weizenbock and an eisbock. Not sour or acidic, but just with those great dark fruit notes from the red wine barrel.
(O)- A very nice array of flavors and blending involved to make this beer. Subtle wine notes really make this shine.
01-19-2014 21:08:16 | More by sweemzander
3.25/5 rDev -18.5%
12-21-2013 21:20:33 | More by Hultkrantz
North Carolina
4.25/5 rDev +6.5%
12-04-2013 18:47:03 | More by RochefortChris
New Hampshire
4.5/5 rDev +12.8%
11-30-2013 01:03:34 | More by JakerLou
North Carolina
4.03/5 rDev +1%
Pours into my Schneider &Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse glass a deep somewhat murky chesnut brown with deep reddish hue,a billowing light tan colored head atop that leaves no laceing as it settles slowly.Wow the Pinot Noir barrel really stands out but doesn't overwhelm the nose,musty phenols and a hint of sherry vinegar rounds the aroma profile out.Very low carbonation with a fuller feel,very mellow.Pinot noir grapes are really big on the palate along with oak,the weizenbock flavors come into form the more I drink,some spiced phenols and faint chocolate come alive as it warms.Very interesting and as others have said it's good to see an old school traditional German brewer try things like this.It's a sipper but it's complex and different.
11-27-2013 22:51:23 | More by oberon
4.25/5 rDev +6.5%
11-24-2013 23:44:17 | More by bleeps
4/5 rDev +0.3%
11-17-2013 02:23:27 | More by DeutschesBier
New Jersey
5/5 rDev +25.3%
11-12-2013 01:55:45 | More by wonothesane42
4.75/5 rDev +19%
Had this outdoors, split the bottle three ways.
A dark ruby. The sun really made an awesome color through the chimay glass. A beasutiful, thin yet persistent blanket. Really perfection as far as lace goes.
Aroma was lightly phenolic, with a light vinous touch in the background, and a rich malty presence upfront.
Flavor: Incredible. A raisiny, spicy, fruity brew, all understated. Like a well balanced spice bread. An incredible pleasant oak sweetness and body tie together the rather light carbonation.
Mouthfeel: Balanced superbly, oak silk, low carb, solid body. Just can't really gush enough.
I loved this one, even at $20 for the 750ml.
11-07-2013 18:33:52 | More by Ysgard
4/5 rDev +0.3%
09-09-2013 00:04:25 | More by Gonzoillini
4/5 rDev +0.3%
05-01-2013 04:35:57 | More by spycow
5/5 rDev +25.3%
02-26-2013 11:53:46 | More by Poupae
3.75/5 rDev -6%
02-24-2013 19:13:06 | More by westcoastbeerlvr
4/5 rDev +0.3%
02-22-2013 23:05:23 | More by largadeer
3.75/5 rDev -6%
01-21-2013 06:27:08 | More by Adlar2789
4/5 rDev +0.3%
01-11-2013 15:06:31 | More by diverite
4/5 rDev +0.3%
11-08-2012 04:58:05 | More by PacNWDad
Ontario (Canada)
3.9/5 rDev -2.3%
Bottle shared by Chris (spycow). A barrel-aged German offering eh? Served in a Russian River tulip.
A - Off-white foam settles to a collar, leaving behind a few wisps on top but minimal lacing. Dark cherrywood brown body with a hint of transparency to it when looked at from the right angle.
S - Taste is very estery in the expected weizenbock manner - a mix of cocoa, dark bread, and bananas, but with light oak and hints of Pinot Noir. There's a light touch at work here, and the fruity vinous flavors play well with the dark fruits in the base beer. Still, it's a bit understated.
T - The taste is stronger, with more of the Pinot Noir influence presence. The base beer imparts yeast notes of banana and clove, and the wheat base also makes itself known. Nice mix of fruity wine, fruity esters, and yeast spice. Not much alcohol presence here.
M - Medium bodied, with pleasant carbonation. Dry in texture with a crisp finish. Again, not much alcohol presence considering the listed 9.5%.
D - I'm excited to see German breweries stepping outside their comfort zone a little. This wasn't mind-blowing, but it demonstrated solid craftsmanship and the willingness to experiment. I wish it smelled a bit more like it tasted, as the aroma was a bit too conservative to justify the marked price increase.
10-29-2012 13:28:17 | More by MasterSki
3.5/5 rDev -12.3%
10-28-2012 01:40:21 | More by AgentZero
3.6/5 rDev -9.8%
Pours a dark chestnut brown color with mahogany edges and a one finger beige head that quickly settles into a thin ring. Minimal spots of lace left behind.
Vinous dark fruit aroma with a strong barrel presence over roasted dark malts. Earthy oak and vanilla notes along with a prominent red wine character. Lots of grape, tart cherry and other dark berries followed by chocolate malt, caramel and coffee bean. Faint acetic presence but it doesn't interfere with the other characteristics and is not solvent like. Smells like a red wine barrel filled with chocolate covered cherries.
Medium bodied with tart sourness and a very strong vinous barrel character that dominates the flavor profile, lingering over the malt backbone into a dry acetic finish. Almost all barrel until the finish with toasted oak, vanilla and dominant vinous red wine flavor with dark grape, tart cherry, currant and other dark berries. Underneath, there is some faint roasted malt but it's overpowered by the barrel and acetic acid. As it warms the acetic character stands out a but more with strong vinegar in the finish. Still, it's not solvent like and it blends well with the tartness and vinous barrel notes. Flavorful but kind of one dimensional with all elements of the base beer completely obliterated. I wish that there was a touch of weizenbock flavor but any can't pick up anything that resembles the style.
10-14-2012 07:07:46 | More by corby112
2.93/5 rDev -26.6%
Pours murky reddish brown with a small white head fading nearly immediately. Little lacing.
Aroma takes on more of the base beer. Typical wheaty notes with banana and clove with some chocolate. Some cherries and dark fruit do come through.
Again base beer is the dominant flavor. Some black pepper notes and cherry comes through from the barrel. Not remotely sour. Barrel has little influence.
Medium bodied with decent carbonation. Alcohol is hidden well.
This beer was putried cold, but got better as it warmed. It still didn't really do it for me. I would've preferred some more barrel character and a bit of sourness to make all the flavors shine. To me it was just sort of a weizenbock with some extra flavors thrown in that didn't really mesh.
10-09-2012 13:32:50 | More by jmarsh123
Schneider Weisse Tap X Mein Cuvée Barrique from Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH
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From LeakyPedia
Nagini was the pet snake belonging to dark wizard, Lord Voldemort. She is described as a female long, green snake with a special bond to Voldemort. She had performed various deeds for the dark lord which usually involve the death of someone. With the murder of Bertha Jorkins in 1994, Nagini became another one of Voldemort's various horcruxes. Nagini was ultimately killed by Neville Longbottom in The Battle of Hogwarts, leaving Voldemort with no remaining horcruxes.
[edit] Background
Lord Voldemort obtained Nagini sometime after attempting to kill Harry Potter. She was used to help Voldemort regain his strength and create a basic physical form and power so that he could one day rise again. By milking her venom, Voldemort was able to create a potion to sustain him until he achieved a proper physical body form. She is considered the magical familiar of Lord Voldemort and is incredibly loyal to him.
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[edit] Goblet of Fire
Sometime in the summer holidays before the start of the school year in 1994, Voldemort used the death of Bertha Jorkins to turn Nagini into one of his many horcruxes. Eventually Voldemort had a total of seven different horcruxes with Nagini being the one closest to the Dark Lord at all times. Albus Dumbledore first picked up on this and led him to think that Nagini was a horcrux. While conjuring plans in the Riddle House, the gardener Frank Bryce saw lights coming from the home. On investigating these lights, Nagini informed Voldemort of the man's presence and he was subsequently killed. [1]
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
In 1995, Voldemort possessed Nagini and set out to kill Arthur Weasley who was guarding the door to The Department of Mysterious and the Prophecy for the Order of the Phoenix. After falling asleep, Nagini viciously attacked Arthur Weasley and then left him to die. Harry Potter, seeing this vision, alerted Professor Minerva McGonagall who then proceeded to tell Albus Dumbledore. Arthur was subsequently saved from death and taken to St. Mungo's where he later made a full recovery. [2]
[edit] Deathly Hallows
In the summer holidays of 1997, Charity Burbage the Muggle Studies Professor is abducted and taken to Malfoy Manor. She is later killed by Lord Voldemort who then feeds her body to Nagini. At Christmas time in 1997, Nagini used extremely dark magic to pose as Bathilda Bagshot in Godric's Hollow. When Harry and Hermione arrive at Bathilda's home with who they think is her, Nagini attacks the pair and bites Harry before Hermione can come to his assistance. The two later escape by using a blasting curse and Nagini has failed her mission once again. [3] In 1998, Voldemort placed Nagini in a protective orb to save her from any attacks as he was trying to save his horcruxes. Later on during the Battle of Hogwarts, Nagini bit and poisoned Severus Snape under the command of Voldemort, which he then died. After the supposed death of Harry Potter, Voldemort freed Nagini from her orb and wrapped her around his neck. Voldemort asked Neville Longbottom to join the Death Eaters as he was pure-blood but he refused so Voldemort put a full body-bind curse on him and set a flaming Sorting Hat onto his head. Once Neville broke free of the bind, he pulled the Sword of Gryffindor out the Hat and beheaded Nagini, leaving Voldemort with no remaining Horcruxes. [4]
[edit] Characterisation
[edit] Outward appearance
Nagini is described as a green viper who is 12 feet long and about as thick as a man's thigh. Being a viper she is very venomous, her venom even helping Lord Voldemort regain power and strength. In the movies, Nagini is seen as a very long, thick green viper with beady yellow eyes and yellow and green patterned skin.
[edit] Personality and Traits
Nagini was one of the only things Voldemort actually cared about and she was completely loyal to him. She usually slithered throughout the dark lord's body and enjoyed being rather close to him, she is even seen on Voldemort's neck like a scarf. She is cunning and deceptive and often helps the dark lord's plans to capture Harry Potter. She really seems to understand Voldemort and in the way which humans behave.
[edit] Family
She was adopted by Lord Voldemort so she could become his familiar and horcrux.
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Ari Hallmark, 8 years old of Arab, lost five family members in the tornado outbreak in April, 2011.
She wrote an inspirational book called To Heaven After the Storm and has used her story to touch other people devastated by tragic events.
Ari has some good advice for the people in Oklahoma, especially the children.
Two years after the storm, life is better for Ari.
On Monday, she enjoyed spending time with residents at an Albertville nursing home where her great aunt lives.
Ari's family spoke with people at the home about her story and how she wrote a book about it as she recovered from losing her parents in the tornado.
This past weekend a second tornado hit Oklahoma. This time there were 14 deaths, five of those children.
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Essex County Council rejects 98.5% of pothole damage claims (From Braintree and Witham Times)
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Essex County Council rejects 98.5% of pothole damage claims
3:00pm Thursday 10th July 2014 in News
Hundreds of motorists were left out of pocket after Essex County Council rejected 98.5% of all pothole damage claims between December and the end of May this year.
Drivers made 669 claims for pothole damage to vehicles but the council only paid out for ten of them.
Leader of the County Labour Group, councillor Julie Young, said: "This is the biggest area of concern for Essex residents and the biggest issue in my postbag.
"Motorists are facing costly repairs and worse still cyclists and pedestrians are suffering physical injuries."
The claims took an average of 50 days to resolve and cost the council £4,000 in total, with 853 cases yet to be decided.
See this week's Times for the full story.
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Too many people try to get too much of taxpayer money!
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Therefore, it IS incumbent upon the councils to fix the roads since they are OUR roads paid for with OUR monies. Someone needs to sue the councils for recompense. But, being British and all that, we wouldn't want to cause a fuss, now would we? Heaven forbid ...
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This pothole in Church Street is clearly dangerous, not just because of its size but because it is on a narrow section of the road where oncoming traffic makes it difficult to avoid. For cyclists it is very dangerous.
ECC were told about this pothole by myself and a Witham Town councillor several times over a period of 6 months, as published in the BWT letters page. There have also been on-line reports from residents.
Earlier this year ECC did patching work in Rickstones Road and Cressing Road, not that far away. Surely they could have done the Church Street one then. There are others in Church Street that need doing but this one was a stand-out must do pothole. Even a temporary repair to make it safe would have helped. But they failed to do anything other than spray coloured paint around it. Woeful.
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First Dynasty of Egypt
The First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (or Dynasty I[1], c. 3100 – c. 2890 BC) covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt. It immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, possibly by Narmer, and marks the beginning of Egyptian historical times. It is one of the two early dynasties of the so-called archaic period, a time at which power was centered at Thinis.
Known rulers in the history of Egypt for the First Dynasty are as follows:
|probably Menes on earlier lists
|starting c. 3130–3050 B.C.
|starting 3080 ± 30 B.C. (p = 0.32)[2]
|c. 3073–3036 B.C. 41 years
|the mother of Den
|2975–2935 or 2928–2911 B.C. 19 to 50 years (40 years B.C.)
|2916–2896 B.C. 20 years
|2912–2891 B.C.? 20 years
|2906–2886 B.C.? 30 years
Information about this dynasty is derived from a few monuments and other objects bearing royal names, the most important being the Narmer palette and macehead as well as Den and Qa'a king lists.[3] No detailed records of the first two dynasties have survived, except for the terse lists on the Palermo stone. The hieroglyphs were fully developed by then, and their shapes would be used with little change for more than three thousand years.
Large tombs of pharaohs at Abydos and Naqada, in addition to cemeteries at Saqqara and Helwan near Memphis, reveal structures built largely of wood and mud bricks, with some small use of stone for walls and floors. Stone was used in quantity for the manufacture of ornaments, vessels, and occasionally, for statues. Tamarix – tamarisk, salt cedar was used to build boats such as the Abydos Boats. One of the most important indigenous woodworking techniques was the fixed Mortise and tenon joint. A fixed tenon was made by shaping the end of one timber to fit into a mortise (hole) that is cut into a second timber. A variation of this joint using a free tenon eventually became one of the most important features in Mediterranean and Egyptian shipbuilding. It creates a union between two planks or other components by inserting a separate tenon into a cavity (mortise) of the corresponding size cut into each component."[4]
Human sacrifice as part of royal funerary practice[edit]
Human sacrifice was practiced as part of the funerary rituals associated with all of the pharaohs of the first dynasty.[5] It is clearly demonstrated as existing during this dynasty by retainers being buried near each pharaoh's tomb as well as animals sacrificed for the burial. The tomb of Djer is associated with the burials of 338 individuals.[5] The people and animals sacrificed, such as donkeys, were expected to assist the pharaoh in the afterlife. For unknown reasons, this practice ended with the conclusion of the dynasty, with shabtis taking the place of actual people to aid the pharaohs with the work expected of them in the afterlife.[5]
- ^ Kuhrt 1995, p. 118.
- ^ http://www.livescience.com/39395-early-egypt-chronology.html
- ^ "Qa'a and Merneith lists", Xoomer, IT: Virgilio.
- ^ "Early ship construction – Khufu's solar boat", Egypt (Timeline), IL: Reshafim, January 2001, retrieved October 29, 2008.
- ^ a b c Shaw 2000, p. 68.
- Kuhrt, Amélie (1995), The Ancient Near East: c. 3000–330 BC, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01353-6.
- Shaw, Ian (2000), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280458-8
See also[edit]
|Preceded by
New creation
|Dynasty of Egypt
c. 3100 – 2890 BC
|Succeeded by
Second dynasty


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Lazy Mutt Farmhouse Ale - Minhas Craft Brewery
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Ratings: 124 | Reviews: 80 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by ntillemans:
3.15/5 rDev +37%
I'm not a big fan of the saison style. The saisons are usually a little too dry and a little too funky for my tastes. I didn't have very high hopes for this one; but I was taken in by the allure of the cheap 8 pack of non-twist-off brown bottles (which I'll use for bottling my homebrew). I didn't get much head here. There was very little head to start with and veritably no head retention to speak of. The cloudy, pale color was perfect for a saison and, despite the almost non-existent head, there was adequate effervesence. The smell is lacking. It smells something like wet cardboard and a hint of corriander. I didn't care much for the first sip; but, then, the funkiness at the tail end of it captivated me as I continued drinking it. There's some effervescence...but the mouthfeel is a little oily, thin and cheap. Overall though, I would say this is a very drinkable beer. It isn't too fussy...and, for a cheap beer, it has a surprising complexity...just enough to hold my interest.
03-15-2008 05:02:32 | More by ntillemans
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2/5 rDev -13%
09-25-2013 01:18:49 | More by equinox1
2.65/5 rDev +15.2%
11.16oz brown bottle ... why not the standard 12oz bottle? No freshness date.
Hazed straw yellow color, hazed due to the yeast in the bottle. Decent lacing with credit due to the very active carbonation. Aromas of white chocolate, lemon zest and a cracker graininess. Very crisp, deep enough which adds a refreshing character upfront. Vague lemon oil, wild flower and clean graininess are the stronger characteristics. Hops are modest with a small bitterness. A little spicy middle to end with more lemon zest flavor. Semi-dry finish with a nearly clean after taste.
Not sure what to make of this one, very non-conventional for the style. Simply tastes like a spicy crisp summer seasonal blonde ale with lemon flavor. Did they really mean to put "Farmhouse Ale" on the label.
05-17-2009 02:16:44 | More by Jason
4/5 rDev +73.9%
08-05-2012 23:31:32 | More by tyleeis
3.93/5 rDev +70.9%
Consumed in a: Pilsener pint glass
After buying this beer, which caught my eye (as is the case with most people it seems) with the whole 8-to-a-pack-thing, I immediately looked online to see what others had to say (as I usually do). To my disappointment, it seemed everybody was bashing it. How could it possibly be that good with hardly anyone recommending it? But, after trying it a few times as objectively as possibly, I must say I disagree with the "haters". Yeah, it's not a "true" Farmhouse ale and doesn't taste like one. So? Beer Advocate says not to judge against inherent qualities of beers. What about the flipside? Why should beers be confided so rigidly into categories? Call it false advertising, but don't let it have any effect on your perception of what it actually is. This beer isn't amazing, but it's got a taste I can really dig, with the mix of sweet and sour, with the bold effervecensce washing away any strong aftertaste. Great summer evening brew.
Appearance - Pours well, a slightly hazy golden froth. Decent lacing and head retention. Must be loaded with CO2, as there's an awful lot of bubble action going on here.
Smell - Actually fairly complex. Notes of dirty gym socks, white chocolate, faint toffee, lemon and butter. It's got a pretty unique sour aroma to it...not vinegary sour like a lambic, but, as I said, more of a sweaty funk type sour. Not for everyone.
Taste - More pronounced lemon/citrus flavors, with a slightly metallic taste. Did this sit in the vat too long? Oh well, it's not THAT offensive.
Taste isn't as complex, interesting or good as the aroma, but still very much palatable to me personally.
Mouthfeel - Not so impressive. Pretty "blah" and watery and WAY too much carbonation for most people (I personally like the amount of carbonation, as it slows me down for one thing. This beer is so light and agreeably tasty to me that I'd probably find myself pounding it much quicker than I should be. With this much carbonation, my stomach won't let me. Also, I love the burps that come from interestingly tasty, highly-carbonated beers.) Still, could use some body to it.
Drinkability - Overall, this is something I could get into on a fairly regular basis (during the summer/fall at least). Aside from the gassyness provided by the carbonation, not too filling. Would be a great session beer if it had just a tad less alcohol.
06-11-2010 01:04:48 | More by joshdesk
1.95/5 rDev -15.2%
Second to last one from the tour variety pack...
Poured into shaker pint; golden straw color with a half-finger clear white head that fades in seconds to a fizzy film of bubbles fed by small, lively carbonation.
Smell is almost the same as all their other ones; smells like light corn and sugar, but it does have a vinous, champagne-like scent.
Taste is all corn and sugar, nothing else. Same sickly-sweet Minhas finish, the vinous quality of the smell isn't present at all in the taste. This is NOT a saison.
Mouthfeel is thin; the carbonation approaches saison but doesn't reach the proper level.
Overall, it's sugary corn-water, that's all this is. If you like generic cheap beer, you could probably stomach this, but if you're looking for a saison, stay away from this one.
12-14-2013 02:49:11 | More by BurgeoningBrewhead
1.35/5 rDev -41.3%
Tried this from a friend's 8-pack for four dollars in Atlanta.
Wow, it's hard to really get a good feel for this beer as you just want to drink it as fast as possible - and not in a good way.
It's a cloudy champagne color, and the head disappears soon after it's poured. It smells a little fruity, but a lot like hot wings.
The taste is a little sour at first, but goes straight downhill from there. I really don't know how to explain the taste, other than just plain terrible. The aftertaste sticks around for thirty minutes and is not pleasant. There's hardly any feel to be had.
All in all this is the worst beer I can remember ever drinking. The worst part is the aftertaste that sticks with you. I see no reason why anyone would pay to drink this beer.
07-21-2008 20:46:03 | More by glid02
2.18/5 rDev -5.2%
Served in a tulip glass)
A- This beer pours a slightly hazy yellow body with a lumpy white head that last a good bit and a sea of swirling bubbles to support it.
S- The soft sweetness is very clean with a cooked corn aroma that grows stronger with each sip.
T- The slightly sweet big cooked corn DMS is only challenged by the watery taste before the dry finish. The corn note lingers.
M- The medium light mouthfeel has a gentle fizz and no alcohol heat noticed.
O- This beer has lots of corn flavor and watery flavors but nothing else. There is no yeast character or hop character and it was hard to get through the whole 12 oz.
05-02-2012 19:51:57 | More by rhoadsrage
2/5 rDev -13%
12-25-2011 18:01:18 | More by richkrull
2.73/5 rDev +18.7%
I don't know where this came from, since I don't think Minhas even distributes to the state much less Toledo; here it is regardless, so why not?
It looks unfiltered, with a deep haze set into a pale yellow brew. Busy carbonation keeps up a head that struggles and would be lost without it, and spotting is left somewhat weakly but amply enough here and there.
This beer is a bit weak, lacking depth as though the interpretation of a light style is to make it weaker. There's not much to it besides a lame base of pale malts, some dusty earth and a bit of lemon. I can't say the sweetness isn't interesting. Unfortunately, there's nothing either Belgian or Farmhouse about this beer.
Interestingly, for such a weak beer and lacking character, the feel almost reaches what it ought to be. Crispness is a little too hard as the carbonation required to keep anything going bites too hard, but there's a smoothness under it that makes it flow well besides that.
10-09-2012 17:01:14 | More by Brenden
3.15/5 rDev +37%
If the intent of Minhas Craft Brewery was to make a "macrobrew" to compete with the likes of Coors/Miller/AB on a beer-seller's shelf, this beer certainly does well in that sort of taste arena, as this otherwise uninspiring and easily drinkable brew certainly fits into this sort of genre. If your idea of drinking a good beer is Miller/Bud Lite/MGD/Corona/Rolling Rock/Busch/Coors, etc, then you likely will be happy--or at least unoffended--with the contents of this bottle. Drinkers of otherwise "cheap" beer (Keystone, Milwaukee's Best/"The Beast"/PBR, etc. in a can) will be best advised to drink these bottles first (aka "drink the better-tasting swill first to catch your buzz before drinking the hasher-tasting stuff").
The carbonation is OK, and the flavor is not too hoppy and a bit water'ish. The aroma is mild-to-not-existent.; and I did not "waste time" on pouring these into a glass for full enjoyment, choosing to try them straight from the non-twisting capped bottles. These go down easily, like gatorade does on the sidelines of a football game or like water does in a workout room. If priced well "by the keg," I could see this beer becoming a college-party favorite due to its less-harsh/almost "malternative" taste, which would do well against a harsher Busch, etc.
On the other hand, I was expecting a LOT more and a LOT better from this brewery, having consumed Huber Bock and most of the Berghoff line (which are presently made at the same brewery, which otherwise seems to make a decent "mainsteram microbrew styled" beer in general from other Huber-made brews I've had the opportunity to sample). I was unimpressed with the bottle contents, as the packaging (a "Union Made" _genius_ "8 pack" in a 6/12/24 pack world) of Lazy Mutt looked as if it would be something much better inside of the bottles than it indeed was. C'mon Minhas--I KNOW that you can do _much_ better than this. That said, I'm not going to pour my remaining bottles of this down the drain, but it certainly will not be my first-choice when going to a store and looking to buy beer (unless there are ONLY Miller/AB/Coors' "mainline" beers from which to choose; if the Amber Bock or similar choices are available, then all bets are off in this sort of situation).
But a "Farmhouse Ale?" Only if your definition of "farmhouse" is from behind which you once would sneak beers from "your old man's 'stash'" as a kid. And this one is indeed better tasting than those cans were, but is not nearly as good as I'd _expect_ a beer (esp. one called a "farmhouse ale") from Minhas to be. I hope that this beer is not a sign of future flavors to come from the brewery in Monroe, WI, as they are able to do a LOT better than this (and do some contract-brewing MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than this).
02-28-2009 20:30:49 | More by DJSpidey
Alberta (Canada)
2.58/5 rDev +12.2%
12 oz bottle.
This beer pours a slightly hazy pale golden colour, with a very thin film of uh, foamy, I suppose, off white head, which leaves a low skinny ring of lace around the glass in its 'wake'. It smells of faint sweet wheat grain, some mild florals, and weedy hops. The taste is generic fruity pale malt, a twinge of wheat spice, and an edgy, but not strong, fruity funk, inoffensive at just the wrong time to be. The carbonation is fairly sedate, the body medium light in weight, a bit thin, but not unsmooth. It finishes offdry, the somewhat dead flower fruitiness persisting.
Not too shabby, considering the source. No obvious flaws, the saison qualities just on the heavily underwhelming side.
10-22-2011 22:13:10 | More by biboergosum
3.15/5 rDev +37%
Picked up a single at Riley's here in Madison. They've been pushing this stuff pretty hard with local commercials lately.
Pour: pale lemon-yellow, lightly cloudy with one finger of medium-thick white foam that fizzles to nothing in a few minutes.
Nose: musty wheat malt, tart lemon, hint of bubblegum
Taste: slightly puckering funky lemon-wheat with a lingering mustiness and sour yogurt finish. Overall very light and fleeting on the palate.
Mouthfeel: thin and effervescent, slightly puckering
Drinkability/Overall: An...interesting experience. This beer is sold in 8-packs for around $7.99 by the brewers of Mountain Creek. Blurb on the label evokes football Sundays. First whiff and taste present more funk than one would expect from a beer targeting this kind of crowd, but the beer's light body and ephemeral palate may not scare away armchair quarterbacks. Will be interesting to see if this stuff catches on. Not a bad beer, but doesn't leave much of an impression. But for a buck a bottle, could be a refreshing summer party beer.
01-07-2008 22:34:51 | More by Golden2wenty1
1.02/5 rDev -55.7%
After seeing this brew on a daily basis, I decided to give it a shot. I purchased one bottle from the mix-and-match 6-pack section at Apollo West.
Upon pouring it into a glass, it looked like a cloudy pilsner. Smelled ridiculously sweet, almost like a cheap malt liquor.
After taking a sip, I was not impressed. I decided to let it warm up a bit, which did not help in the slightest. The sweetness to it is simply too overwhelming to warrant another taste. I cut my losses and tossed the remainder and thanked myself for not buying more.
03-05-2008 18:10:04 | More by Tsuruchi
3.43/5 rDev +49.1%
Given that this is one of the lowest rated craft brews on any beer rating site, I'm a little disappointed at how good it is! I was excited to find a horrible train wreck, something that would make me wretch, but it's actually not bad. Maybe they've cleaned it up? (It's certainly not as yeasty as the one pictured on the site; that had to have come out of someone not knowing how to do a bottling run for this kind of beer).
But firstly, YES, it is clearly not a Saison. I'm just looking at it for what it is, and not trying to peg it into any style category. So...
It exhibited good head retention, holding a solid cap (it was thin in the middle, but it was still solid) throughout most of the glass, and it left some very nice lace behind as well. It's obviously unfiltered, and maybe that's why they've labeled it "farmhouse ale". Nice golden color.
The aroma is lacking, expressing only basic maltiness, yeast, and a bit of apple-like yeasty fruitiness. And I could see how some might find the actual yeast a bit offensive, but I don't. It's a little boring, and some hops would be great, but it's clean so I can't really fault it.
The flavor is basically the same as the aroma, although there's also a bit of grape-like flavor. The malt is basic, and although some have cried "adjunct!", I find a clear note of grainy malt to it. It's mildly bitter, and the slight tartness of the yeast helps to balance it. Again, some hops would be nice but I only get a minor touch of floral and spice, and I think the spice is from actualy spice, and not hops. Who knows? Still, it finishes dry, and not sticky, so who am I to complain?
So what is left? What's so horrible about this beer? Well, nothing really. It's medium-light in body and crisp. And it's drinkable. What they're obviously going for, based on what's written on the label, is "volume" drinkability. It reads "... It means that on Sunday, when you have two things on your mind: where to sit and what to watch, we'll be right there with you". So, OK, a football beer. Is this any worse than chilling with a crisp, cool can of Coor's Light? Certainly not. "Farmhouse Ale" isn't a very good label for this beer, but I can see where they're coming from given the customer they're pitching this to. But really, beyond that, it's not a bad basic beer.
09-25-2009 19:23:44 | More by NeroFiddled
2.5/5 rDev +8.7%
12oz single for some nominal fee at Riley's
union made +1 point
appearance: pours into a brooklyn pint glass, moderately cloudy urine-yell color, super bubbly, light beige cap...yawner
smell: wheat malts, funky must, sour lemon, grassy
taste: this is like a macro-saison of some sort...the tart artificial lemon flavors dominate with a strong wheatgrass base, fair amount of corn noticeable. not worth drinking again
mouthfeel: tart and light
drinkability: bah
01-30-2008 00:45:26 | More by dirtylou
2.5/5 rDev +8.7%
12-22-2012 03:48:58 | More by cliff1066
4/5 rDev +73.9%
09-22-2012 21:08:51 | More by angelisauce
2/5 rDev -13%
An odd 11.16 oz. twist off bottle poured into a wine glass. Pours golden with a light haze. A thin cap hits the hills in about 20 seconds.
Nose of neutral cereal with a hint of sweet yeast note. Not much aroma and no notable hop presence. Yeast notes are quite subtle as well.
Flavor again of pale malts with a bit of lemon oil though the lemon seems to be as much additive as hop driven.
Feel is a bit flat as the carbonation is rather light to begin with, fizzing out of the liquid too quickly.
Overall a bust with minimal yeast and farmhouse notes. Not really too far from Simpler Times though a bit drier on the finish. Improves just a touch with some warming as for yeast presence.
07-04-2012 04:52:22 | More by HalfFull
2.05/5 rDev -10.9%
Poured a slightly cloudy orange/yellow with a light off white head, quickly turning into a soapy ring.
Smell has a funky(and not the good kind) yeastyness and grain and corn quality.
Flavor is like a typical corn adjunct macro lager with some hints of lemony citrus and funky yeast.
Mouthfeel is light with decent carbonation.
Not so good, will be avoiding this one.
11-29-2007 02:49:32 | More by bashiba
1.88/5 rDev -18.3%
Grabbed a 8-pack and should of known better. Very pale color with a small white head that goes away quickly. No aromas to lead you on that this is a "Farmhouse Ale". Some biscuit malt but that is about all that is detected. Very little flavor. Mostly biscuit malt and little to no qualities of a saison. Has a thin body but carbonation is halfway decent. Unfortunately I have seven more of these things to consume.
04-29-2008 22:21:38 | More by morimech
3.7/5 rDev +60.9%
Purchased as part of a mix six...split the bottle with my sister-in-law:
A=Medium to light golden, with a bit of murkiness and perhaps a slight greenish tint. Head was white and not very dominant.
S=I didn't notice much...perhaps a cut grass smell.
T=Citrus and very crisp...rather sweet and creamy as well. Reminded me a bit of Blue Moon's Belgian White.
M=Moderate carbonation, perhaps a bit slippery, but overall very drinkable.
O=One of Minhas' better offerings...I would definitely drink again, but probably not buy as it is not quite as good as others out there.
05-14-2013 14:17:50 | More by dhannes
2.75/5 rDev +19.6%
01-04-2013 03:17:22 | More by Kunstman
2.5/5 rDev +8.7%
I picked up 3 varieties of Minhas beers last week so I will be having a Minhas morning today to kick off my weekend. Poured from a brown 12 oz. bottle. Has a dark golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is mild, a bit musty, some medicinal odor. Taste is yuck, an off metallic taste, some cough syrup, maybe a touch of plastic. WTF? Feels light in the mouth and overall is the worst beer of this style that I have ever had.
07-13-2012 20:27:00 | More by tone77
Alberta (Canada)
1.73/5 rDev -24.8%
A- This pours a slightly hazy light ginger ale color. And I hate to say this but it looks like how piss looks when your sick. I couldn't believe it but this is the only beer I've had where there was a minimal head upon pouring that disappeared into literally nothing! There is no foam, no ring, not even a single bubble sitting on top of the liquid. There is no lacing to speak of and overall this just looks like flat ginger ale that's somewhat cloudy!
S- I didn't read anybody's review before trying this and the first thing that comes to my mind was a sour apple scent with lemon juice mixed in....kind of a citrus smell but not in a good way!
T- Again, I taste some apples, a little sweeter than the aroma leads on and at least I don't taste the citrus notes here. Maybe a little bit of malt as well but no hop bitterness is detectable. There is also a yeasty backround noticable here as well.
M- Fizzy and watery about sums it up...again...it's like drinking a carbonated version of a frozen apple juice where too much water has been added.
D- Sorry, but I'm glad my friend bought this 8 pack and not me...no wonder after we each had one that he didn't care about taking the rest home with him. I wouldn't recommend this one and I'm sure it will take awhile for me to finish off the rest of these that are in my fridge, if I don't give them away first! Not a good beer in my opinion.
02-05-2009 04:10:14 | More by ChrisCage
Lazy Mutt Farmhouse Ale from Minhas Craft Brewery
58 out of 100 based on 124 ratings.


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Hundreds fall ill on cruise ship
Around 300 people have fallen ill with vomiting and diarrhoea on board the Royal Caribbean International Explorer.PT0M27S http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-31i9e 620 349 January 27, 2014
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US health officials have boarded a cruise ship docked in the US Virgin Islands to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms including vomiting and diarrhoea.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 281, or nearly 10 per cent, of the 3050 passengers aboard Royal Caribbean International's Explorer of the Seas have reported getting sick during a Caribbean cruise that left Cape Liberty, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
Twenty-two crew members also reported feeling ill.
The Royal Caribbean International's Explorer of the Seas docked at Charlotte Amalie Harbor in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands on Sunday. Photo: AP
Janet Diaz, spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean Cruises, said CDC representatives boarded the towering, 15-deck ship on Sunday as it made a port call in St Thomas, the main island of the US Virgin Islands.
At least two CDC officials, an epidemiologist and an environmental health officer, were expected to do the investigation and evaluate the outbreak response on the cruise liner.
During the previous port call in Puerto Rico, the ship underwent ''extensive and thorough sanitising'' to help prevent more people from getting sick, the company spokeswoman said.
The Explorer of the Seas. About 300 passengers have fallen ill on board. Photo: AP
The ship bypassed a scheduled stop at the company's fenced-in beach destination in northern Haiti to sail directly to Puerto Rico's capital.
''This was a difficult decision to make; however, we feel it is best to make this itinerary modification to help prevent any more guests from becoming ill,'' Diaz said.
The passengers and crew who fell ill have ''responded well to over-the-counter medication being administered onboard the ship,'' she said.
Fast-spreading norovirus is often to blame for similar symptoms sweeping closed quarters such as those on cruise ships, but a determination will likely have to wait until samples are tested in a lab.
Diaz said special cleaning products and disinfectants that are proven to kill norovirus are being used to clean the ship.
In a statement, Beverly Nicholson-Doty, the US Virgin Islands' tourism commissioner, said the territory was grateful for the CDC's ''quick response'' and St Thomas was ready to welcome ship passengers cleared to disembark.
On Friday, an Explorer of the Seas passenger named Arnee Dodd tweeted that she had fallen ill aboard the ship and was quarantined with the other sick people.
The Connecticut woman wrote that ship employees ''put a lock down on food & are constantly cleaning everything.''
It was not clear if any passengers were still being quarantined Sunday.
The ship's next scheduled stop is the Dutch Caribbean country of St Maarten.


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TALLAHASSEE -- The new Common Core State Standards are more than just a roadmap for teachers and students.
They're a political football causing a rift among Republicans.
In Florida, conservative moms and tea party groups have mounted fierce opposition to the national standards, saying decisions about teaching and learning should be made by state governments and local school boards — not the federal government. Their efforts attracted significant attention this summer, thanks to well-attended rallies, social media blitzes and the support of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.
"Our parents are reaching out to every [state] legislator they know and urging them to hit the pause button on Common Core," said Laura Zorc, a Vero Beach mother and cofounder of Florida Parents Against Common Core.
Few observers believe the pressure will make the Florida Legislature or the Board of Education reverse course on the standards, which kick in across all grade levels when school starts on Monday. The benchmarks still have broad support among Republican lawmakers, and a tireless champion in former Gov. Jeb Bush.
But the backlash could be enough to prompt Florida's exit from a national consortium creating the tests to accompany the new standards. Some observers, such as Frederick Hess of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, say the standards would be virtually meaningless without a common measuring stick.
"If there is a disconnect between the standards and the assessments, we end up worse than where we began," Hess said, noting that there would be no way to compare student performance in Florida to performance in other states.
The Common Core standards outline what is expected of students at each grade level, but do not include suggestions for books or how teachers should plan their lessons. The benchmarks were created by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, and have been approved in 45 states and in the District of Columbia.
The political fireworks are not unique to Florida. The debate in Indiana got so heated that lawmakers voted to put the brakes on the standards earlier this year. Michigan and Wisconsin are also grappling with similar proposals.
"In many states, implementation is already well under way, but there is this firestorm," said Maria Ferguson, executive director of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.
That wasn't always the case. When the initiative launched in 2009, lawmakers from both parties, teachers' unions, parent groups and business associations supported it. They made the argument that national standards would raise the bar for students across the country, and enable educators to compare student performance across state lines.
But fractures began forming this year, when the Obama administration ramped up its efforts to promote the new benchmarks.
The teachers' unions expressed concerns over how educators would be evaluated during the roll out, and whether they would be adequately prepared. Critics on the right, meanwhile, identified the Common Core as an example of federal overreach, and made comparisons to Obamacare. They also took issue with federal money being tied to the standards.
Other concerns surfaced about the quality of the standards themselves, and how student data would be collected, distributed and protected.
When tea party groups and organizations such as Florida Parents Against Common Core began mobilizing this summer, state education leaders braced for the political fallout.
"This wave is coming to kill Common Core," state Board of Education member Kathleen Shanahan said in May.
Florida's push toward Common Core suffered a bruising setback this month, when state Education Commissioner Tony Bennett resigned in the aftermath of a school grades controversy. Bennett was among the most outspoken advocates of the standards, and had been guiding the state education board through the firestorm.
Bush has been doing everything in his power to promote the Common Core standards through his two education foundations. He made a speech defending the benchmarks this month at a conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a policy resource for many Republican lawmakers.
It seems to be helping. Interim Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart has said she has no plans to abandon the benchmarks.
Republican state lawmakers are holding firm, too. Last month, Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, and four former chairs of the Republican Party of Florida, sent an email seeking to clarify "misinformation" that had circulated among conservatives, and to garner support for the standards.
"There are good conservatives on both sides of this issue," they wrote. "Questioning the integrity of anyone involved on either side of this debate does not do our party or this issue any favors. We implore our fellow Republicans to judge the Common Core State Stands by what they are: academic standards, not curriculum and not a national mandate."
Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said he welcomes debate on Common Core, but is committed to the national standards.
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said he had no qualms with the benchmarks, either.
When asked why the issue had become so controversial, Gaetz blamed politics. "Unfortunately, the Obama administration has tried to hijack the Common Core issue," said the former schools superintendent.
The leaders, however, have reservations about a key part of Florida's Common Core plan: the tests.
Florida is a member of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a consortium of states working to create new exams to test the Common Core standards. Gaetz and Weatherford recently suggested Florida leave the consortium and craft its own plan for measuring student achievement, which could include an entirely new set of student assessments.
Gaetz has said the proposal was not the product of political pressure. He and Weatherford want to leave PARCC because the consortium has not released its final student data security policies, and because school systems may not have the technology needed to administer the exams, he said.
Observers believe Florida is likely to follow Georgia, Indiana and Oklahoma and withdraw from the consortium. Zorc, of Florida Parents Against Common Core, said the move would be telling. "Legislators are starting to listen," she said.
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Amy Chua, a law professor at Yale and hardworking mother of two teenage daughters (her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, also teaches law at Yale and writes suspense novels), has sparked a giant controversy in publishing her memoir-cum-parenting book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (The Penguin Press; $25.95; 2011). The crux of the brouhaha: Which parenting paradigm works better, the traditional American model, which proposes that parents let their children discover what they naturally excel at and then help them achieve success at it while preserving the kids' all-important "self esteem," or Chua's "Asian" model, in which parents push their children to perform tasks that the parents decide are worthwhile with 110 percent of their ability to the exclusion of seemingly self-indulgent activities such as sleepovers and after-school drama clubs? Chua asserts that her Chinese parenting methods work better, and that the United States is on the road to failure because we don't push our children hard enough, far enough, fast enough. The numbers seem to support her: According to a report from the U.S. Department of Labor, Asian-American high school graduates have the highest college enrollment rate, at 92.2 percent. Read more
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OAKLAND -- The small fraternity that makes up baseball broadcasters tends to root for each other. So when Red Sox announcer Joe Castiglione saw Harry Kalas before a game against the Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., back in March, he immediately told him what a thrill it was to hear the Hall of Fame announcer call the final out in Philadelphia's first World Series championship since 1980.
"In 1980, that was when networks had it exclusively and he didn't get to do [the last out]," Castiglione said. "I told him, 'I heard your last out. I was really glad you got a chance to do it.' He really relished it."
As it turns out, that was the last conversation Castiglione ever had with Kalas, who died Monday inside the broadcast booth before a Phillies-Nationals game in Washington.
Red Sox manager Terry Francona has plenty of fond memories of Kalas from the four years he spent as manager of the Phillies, form 1997-2000.
"What a sweetheart," Francona said. "A voice that is unmatched. I used to tease him all the time. I'd say, 'Harry, I feel like I hear you more in the winter than I do in the summer' because he'd be on a commercial or a football game or radio. Everybody wanted him. But he was a gentleman. Philadelphia can be a tough town, but I'm sure they'll really pour out some emotion for Harry. He's been there a long time."
Francona also has a unique remembrance of Kalas.
"He [announced] our first fantasy football draft [with the Phillies]," Francona said. "That was incredible. It was unbelievable. We didn't do a lot of good things there, but we did that pretty good."
For another broadcaster, it was hard not to be awed by Kalas.
"I loved him," said Castiglione. "He had a lot of big events. He did the first game in the Astrodome. I think he did the first game at the Vet and Citizens Bank Park. He was the voice of NFL Films. He had a great time. He loved players. He loved that '93 Phillies team."
And as much as other people tried, there was no duplicating Kalas.
"He had a classic style," Castiglione. "A lot of people mimicked him. Not on the air because you couldn't. He was unique."
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The 2013 WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx were welcomed inside Humphrey Terminal with resounding applause as they returned from their third win over the Atlanta Dream.
The Lynx will host a championship celebration on Monday with a parade beginning at 11:30 a.m. and a celebration inside Target Center at 12:15 p.m. The Parade route will begin on the corner of 12th Street and Nicollet Avenue to 7th Street, where it will continue on 7th Street leading to First Avenue North then on to Target Center.
MVP forward Maya Moore tallied 23 points in game three, a game that marked a championship sweep, and now, the Lynx have become the second team in WNBA history to boast a 7-0 postseason. Moore and fellow starter Seimone Augustus proved to be the Dream's worst nightmare.
"It's just an honor to be a part of this team and a part of this organization, this wonderful city that supports us like they do," Augustus said.
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Almost 25 years ago, David B. Schwartz, an attorney for The Walt Disney Co. now living in Los Angeles, graduated from Miami's New World School of the Arts, the prestigious downtown performing arts school.
Over the years, the school had groomed a steady stream of talent, including more dancers in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater than any other conservatory in the nation; musicians performing at Lincoln Center and actors on Broadway; artists with works in museum collections; and Schwartz's own buddy, Randall Emmett, a Hollywood producer behind a slew of hits, including the recent Denzel Washington-Mark Wahlberg cop caper, 2 Guns.
And yet over lunch one day, Schwartz and Emmett found themselves complaining about how much trouble they had tracking down fellow Fighting Pigeons. It turns out the cash-poor public school has no alumni organization.
So the pair did what came naturally to them, and so many other Gen Xers: they got together with friends and started a foundation.
And therein lies the complex nature of harnessing young volunteers and donors in the competitive world of non-profits, where every good deed can be just a click away. Nonprofit organizations eager to lure young supporters must increasingly find new and better ways to cut through the crowded room to reach their target.
The good news, according to the Chronicle on Philanthropy, is that the young rich are not afraid to give: among the nation's top five philanthropists in 2012, three were couples under 40. The bad news: young supporters show little allegiance to organizations and hunger for "hands-on engagement."
Being creative
Across the nation and in Miami, that has put the pressure on organizations to come up with surprising events and creative partnerships.
The New World alumni foundation will live solely online, inhabiting a website that drums up support for the school, connects alums and provides a platform for their work. The site, scheduled to launch in January (www.NWSAAlumni.net), will let alums sell their work online or stage kick-starter campaigns to fund projects. It will also include notices for jobs and internships and, Schwartz hopes, trigger endless collaborations that benefit both the school and its graduates.
"We're a community where a significant portion are still artists, which can be very lucrative, but is not always," he explained. "So for us it's really a matter of finding ways in which each person's talent can contribute to the organization, and if they can contribute financially as well, that's spectacular."
Reaching out
Other groups are finding ways to reach supporters that have produced some interesting, and sometimes uniquely Miami, results.
Friends of the New World Symphony (http://nwsfriends.squarespace.com/), set themselves apart by going after other tribes. Its Pulse parties reach out to the late-night crowd by turning the center into a lounge that pairs a DJ with its classically trained musicians. A bike-themed concert and movie night taps into Miami's growing cycling community and a yoga night — a mini concert followed by an hour-long yoga class — exposes fitness fans to music they might not necessarily consider. Or vice versa.
The United Way (http://www.unitedwaymiami.org/get-involved-top/young-leaders) organizes pub crawls while the South Florida chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (www.lls.org) has introduced MyLLS, a free app that lets tech-savvy supporters collect donations and organize events on their various devices.
Breakthrough Miami (www.breakthroughmiami.org) introduced itself to young professionals last year with a rooftop cocktail party at the Betsy in South Beach.
The organization, which provides academic enrichment to underserved students on some of Miami's top private school campuses, got even more serious about engaging young supporters this year when it handed over a board seat to a 24-year-old.
"To be honest, the board was a little shocked at first," said CEO Elissa Vanaver. "The question was, what is someone in their early 20s really going to bring to the table and everybody was convinced that he brings quite a lot."
Garth Reeves, the 20-something in question, returned to Miami in 2011 after graduating from Emory University to run the Miami Times, the newspaper his family started 91 years ago.
"It was important for me, and my family felt it was important, that I get involved with those causes and organizations that are working within the black community," he said.
A cousin, who sat on the board, suggested Breakthrough. As it turns out, Reeves had attended Miami Country Day School, one of the schools where Breakthrough holds its programs. The partnership seemed to check every box on the list.
"I want to help guide them and share ideas and create partnerships with the right groups to get the Breakthrough name out there so there's a comfort level and parents know what it's about," Reeves explained. "I'm probably the youngest person on the board by at least 20 years. So in that sense I bring a different perspective altogether."
Being "closer to the ground," Vanaver explained, gives him insight critical to Breakthrough's mission.
"Everything is changing so much these days: the world we're sending our students out into, the things they need to know to be successful in college and beyond," she said. "And if we can't communicate that to the students, we're not really executing our mission."
There's also a practical matter.
"We're all going to get old and die. So you need the reinforcements to come in."
Getting involved
To satisfy the desire for hands-on work, organizations are also using their young supporters to execute the service they provide.
"I'm a big proponent of asking people, 'What can you bring to the table to further our mission?'" said Sandra Einhorn, executive director of Rebuilding Together Broward, an organization started in 2000 by AutoNation and JM Family Enterprises to repair and rebuild houses for needy homeowners.
In September, the organization launched its Young Professionals Task Force.
"The key to what we're doing is to make people feel valued," Einhorn said. "We don't want volunteers to think they're just a number, but we want them to recognize that what they do at Rebuilding Together has an impact".
Rather than just ask supporters for money, volunteers make up the labor force that provides repairs, and works their network of friends and business associates to fill needs.
"Funding is tight and as nonprofits, we have to be creative, so we're bartering and collaborating," she said.
Professional networks also let younger donors understand how charitable work can not only satisfy a desire to give back, but help them in their careers.
"These large companies have role models for young leaders to see what they've gotten not only from their careers, but just personally giving," said Dustin Symes, co-chair of the United Way's Young Leaders Executive Committee and a first vice president at City National Bank.
So in addition to its popular Boos and Spirits Pub Crawl for Halloween and Luncheon with Leaders series, the United Way also helps companies create workplace campaigns tailored to excite young staff. Royal Caribbean, for example, stages a campaign that includes karaoke and super hero costumes.
"It's a network. Everyone plays their role," explained public relations director Yanet Obarrio Sanchez.
An entry point
Nonprofits can also provide a "point of entry" in a new city, said Leann Standish, deputy director of external affairs at the Perez Art Museum Miami, where membership has almost tripled in anticipation of the museum's Dec. 4 opening. To attract younger supporters, the museum created PAMM Contemporaries and the Young Collectors.
The Contemporaries, which includes about 400 households, has its own steering committee creating events. The Collectors pay an additional $500 for the chance every year to pick a new work for the museum's collection and, Standish said, has led to meetings brimming with "active debates."
Like the New World Symphony, the museum tapped into the bike tribe by organizing bike tours of the Wynwood Walls hosted by curators, artists and authors. And along with well-attended socials, it hosts a popular Art Fair Survival Party, handing out passes and providing tips on navigating the sprawling Art Basel fairs.
"It's young, dynamic and evolving," Standish said. "It's like a museum training ground for cultural leadership."
Starting young can translate to a lifetime of support.
"It's important to start very early to teach our children empathy for others because we're not going to survive without nonprofits in the world," said Emily Marquez, executive director of the South Florida chapter of the LLS, which holds its annual Light The Night celebration Nov. 9 in Broward and Nov. 16 in Miami-Dade.
When she was in high school, Ali Codina volunteered at The Barnyard, a community center that sprung from a social justice project founded in 1948 in Coconut Grove (www.coconutgrovecares.org). In 2003, when she returned to Miami after graduating from Bowdoin College, she immediately got involved and joined the board.
Codina, a filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning documentary Monica & David, now helps organize an annual high-end tag-sale at the swanky Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables.
"My connection with the Barnyard at this point is very visceral. I don't have to think about why I support it and when people ask, or if someone were to congratulate me on the work or whatever, it would feel silly because I haven't felt like I had a choice. But in a good way."
It has also allowed her to tailor her volunteering as her life changes.
After her son was born a year ago, she had less time for hands-on work. The annual fundraiser, Fashionably Conscious, is "just an easy excuse to engage people and it's packaged in a way that's easy to communicate what we're doing and why," she said. "God bless people when they just write a check. You need that just as much as when people volunteer."
Taking part
Young supporters say aging with an institution gives them a sense of belonging and being part of something bigger.
"When the organization started 10 years ago, it was very much a hip party organization, with phenomenal parties and lots of 20-somethings," said Florencia Jimenez-Marcos, board president of the young patrons' program, Friends of New World Symphony, who was recently elected to the symphony board.
But over the years, members realized "it really is about everyone working together and growing an audience today that will become supporters tomorrow,".
So now, the group offers a variety of memberships in addition to hosting events such as Symphony After Hours for singles or the instrument petting zoos to draw young families..
"When you look at it from a purely entertainment dollar value, there are six events throughout the year (for Friends) so your social calendar is taken care of," she said.
And filled with a diverse group of people.
"We have musicians and attorneys and bankers and everything in between because that's just the kind of place Miami is."
Jimenez-Marcos, who was born in Argentina and raised in Texas, found the group through friends after moving to Miami in 1999. And like Codina, she feels like she has grown up with the group she supports.
"We always joke that now we don't know if any of us would be allowed to" join, she said. "We now have 450 members that are at a level that includes a concert subscription and a philanthropic contribution. It's ridiculously high and that's really key for us. We're not just feeding a pipeline with younger 20-somethings. We're moving along at different levels so we all grow together."


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