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Brew News - November 2010

Here's our November edition of Brew News at Just Local Food...

1) Winner of our latest give-away
2) Upcoming Give-away
3) Current Sales
4) New and Seasonal Beers
5) Beer Dudes Picks



1) Winner of our latest give-away
We had a winner for our New Belgium Fat Tire Cruiser Bike give-away contest! Frank W., a long-time regular customer at Just Local Food came out on top in the drawing for the latest version of New Belgium's Cruiser Bike. Thanks for all the entries!














2) Upcoming Give-away
Our next beer-related give-away will feature (2) "British-sized" pint glasses from Dave's Brewfarm. These are not the puny 16oz. version of a pint glass, but rather
the "imperial" 20oz. beer vessels. Not too much, not too little, but just right...

You can get your name entered in the drawing with the purchase of a 6pk of Brewfarm Matacabras or a 12pk of Brewfarm Select Golden Lager. We will hold the drawing near the end of November.



3) Current Sales
We've got a couple of beers on sale, but don't wait to get them as they'll sell quickly:
- Northwoods Floppin' Crappie 6pk cans $4.99 (save $1.40)
- New Belgium Skinny Dip 12pk bottles $9.99 (save $7.70!) - this one will only last about a week!

4) New and Seasonal Beers
As usual, we've got a bunch of new and re-released seasonal beers to welcome us into the colder parts of fall and winter. With these brews in-hand, it almost makes the chill disappear...

- Point 2012 Black Ale
- Bell's Hell Hath No Fury, Bell's Expedition Stout
- Tyranena's Dirty Old Man Imperial Rye Porter (Aged in Rye Barrels)
- New Glarus Back Forty Wisconsin Bock
- New Belgium 2° Below, New Belgium Lips of Faith: Biere de Mars
- Brau Brothers Hundred Yard Dash Fresh Hop Ale
- Lift Bridge Farm Girl Saison


5) Beer Dudes Picks
Jordan and Drew, the beer dudes at Just Local Food, do regularly test our products for quality control purposes. That, and we really do love beer! Here are our "picks" for the month on what we're currently drinking/what really impresses us:

Jordan: Brau Brothers Rubus Black Imperial Blackberry Porter (750 mL bottle)
Drew: Brau Brothers Hundred Yard Dash Fresh Hop Ale (6pk bottles)













Raise 'em up!

Drew and Jordan, the Beer Dudes

Turkey signup in progress at Just Local Food

Turkey Sign-up!

This is the only time to get these high-quality locally raised turkeys, so you may want to order extras for the freezer.

Coon Creek Family Farm (Mondovi, WI) certified organic turkeys are locally raised, and will be in stock or arrive at our store frozen for pick-up on Friday, November 19th.

Price: $4.99/lb S (10-12lb), M (13-15lb), L (16-20lb), XL (over 20lb)

Beaver Creek Ranch (Grantsburg, WI) is offering free-range fresh turkeys, available for pick-up at our store on Friday, November 19th. These birds need to be kept at 35-38 degrees F, until you cook them on Thanksgiving day.

Price: $2.99/lb Size: 16-25 lb

Please specify your ideal size and we will attempt to match.

Thanks for supporting your local farmers.

November Art Exhibit at Just Local Food

Just Local Food presents an art exhibit for November!

Description:

Photograph’s by Alyssa Trainor: “These photographs capture the essence of my photography. Color. Color is the most important thing in all these photos however different they may appear. Color is all around us and I want to capture that color and display it in interesting compositions and perspectives.”

Where: Just Local Food Co-op, 1117 S Farwell Street

(JLF phone 552-3366)

Cost: free

Hours: Mon-Sat 8-9, Sunday 8-6

Show length: Nov 3 – Nov 25

Sun-dried tomatoes SALE

Wow! You better get in here. The bulk department has marked down sun-dried tomatoes to nearly cost. These babies can be refrigerated to prolong their freshness or submerged in olive oil and stored indefinitely.
Want a great holiday gift idea? Save and clean up your used dressing bottles and jars, get some sun-dried tomatoes and olive oil, make up some infused oil with your own preferred herbs and spices and GIFT BABY GIFT!

Dried Red Tart Cherries and Blueberries GROWN IN MICHIGAN

Urban Processing, our favorite producer of dried sweetened WISCONSIN cranberries, has some fairly new goodies just in time for seasonal baking.
Dried sweetened red tart cherries grown in MICHIGAN have been so well received that they are flying off the bulk shelf! Drew recommends pairing them with our carob covered almonds, and with a glass of red wine, but you can also add them to your favorite homemade granola, holiday cookies and breads or just enjoy them by the handful right out of the bag.

Dried sweetened blueberries grown in MICHIGAN are just awesome in homemade blueberry muffins. Think about it, colder mornings, hot homemade blueberry muffins. We just made your weekend morning, right? Or, you can add them to your favorite cereal or homemade granola. The internet has a great plethora of recipes out there. Look up recipes for dried cherries or blueberries and let your stomach lead your imagination!

Uncle Pete's Mustard

New to our packaged grocery shelves!

Uncle Pete sold a few cases of Mustard at the International Fall Festival a few weeks ago. One of our worker/owners gave it a try and we made a connection. Now we've got it in our store! Here's an excerpt of a description from Stephanie March at MspMag over in Minnesota:

...First the Feel-Good: Uncle Pete's is locally made by a family in which, at one time, there was an actual Uncle Pete. According to the jar: Uncle Pete was born in 1875 in Silver Lake, MN as a child of Polish Emigrants. He was known for his sense of humor and excellent mustard making skills.The kids now making his mustard are a Facebook savvy third generation working from a Rice, MN farm just north of St. Cloud.

Now for the Feel-So-Bad-It's-So Good: That stuff is wicked hot.

The first dip of the pretzel gave me the sweet and tangy side, almost a bit fruity on the back. The second dip rather hit me in the nasal passage with a Skidoosh! that was almost wasabi clean in nature while still carrying the mustard flavor. I hate using the word piquant, but there it is...

Only $3.99 a jar. Try some today!

Just Local Meat Sale

All of our Local Meats are on sale for the month of October, 15% off our regular low prices.

Check out your favorite supplier or try a new one.

Beaver Creek Ranch - uncured bacon, chicken breasts and thighs, ground chicken and turkey, pork and turkey apple brats, italian sausage and chorizo, pork chops and tenderloins, beef hot dogs, and a new item Keta salmon - line caught in the upper Copper river in Alaska.
Beeler's - uncured bacon and wieners.
Coon Creek Family Farm - whole or cutup chicken, wings and legs..
Crescent Meats - bacon, ham, pork roasts, bologna, elk and pork bratwursts, elk and beef summer sausages, elk and beef jerky.
Deutsch Family Farm - bacon, ground italian and pork sausages, breakfast links, pork chops and ribs.
Gingerbread Jersey - bacon, ground pork sausage, bratwursts, deli ham.
Golden Hill Buffalo - ground and patties.
Lamb A Lot - lamb brats, ground lamb, kabobs, gyro, french rack, chops.
Little Spring Valley - beef steaks, roasts, burger, and patties.
Werlein Family Farm - beef steaks, roasts, and burgers.. (ask about the Bundle)
Wheatfield Hill Organics- beef steaks, roasts, and burger.

Thank you for shopping at your local downtown grocer..

October 2010 Brew News

October 2010 Brew News

Welcome back to another installment of Brew News.

1. October Sales!
2. New Beers on the Shelf
3. Oktoberfest Beers

1. October Sales!
For the month of October, we will be running 3 sales.

Dave's BrewFarm Select 12 pack for $10.69
BrewFarm Matacabras 6 pack for $8.19
Northwoods Floppin' Crappie 6 pack cans $4.99

2. New Beers on the Shelf
We have been adding quite a few new products over the last 6 months.

Here is a smattering of them...
Seasonals/Limited Releases
*Furthermore Fallen Apple
New Belgium Hoptober
*Brau Brothers Rubus Black 22oz
New Belgium Lips of Faith La Folie 22oz
New Glarus Unplugged Abt

Year Round
Brau Brothers Pale Ale
Brau Brothers Pilz
Brau Brothers Scotch Ale
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Old Milwaukee
Horny Goat Red Vixen
Horny Goat Honey Blonde
Horny Goat Exposed
Potosi Good Ole Potosi
Potosi Snake Hollow IPA
Potosi Cave Ale

*Jordan recommends that you don't wait to try these beers because they will be gone soon.

3. Oktoberfest Beers
We stocked up with a ton of local Oktoberfest beers this year.
Unfortunately we sold out of Summit and Bell's already.

What we still have...
Tyranena, Capital, Leinenkugel's, New Glarus' Staghorn, Point, and our own pre-mixed 6 packs.

Stop in while you can still get them.

As always,
Cheers,
Jordan & Drew a.k.a. the BEER DUDES

October is Fair Trade Month

October is
FAIR TRADE MONTH

Check out these FAIRLY TRADED delicious nuggets

Just Cashews Justly Traded Cashews

“Just Cashews is committed to alleviating poverty, malnutrition and exploitation by creating a fair trade market for organic, fair trade, cashews and working to develop standards for fair trade cashew production throughout the world. By purchasing Just Cashews, you have a direct impact on the quality of life for peasant farmers and their families in Central America.”

Our bulk section is proud to offer roasted/salted, roasted/unsalted and raw cashews. Pledge your support to this cause today by purchasing fairly traded cashews and other fairly traded products.

Your Local Maple Syrup Headquarters

We're thrilled to be selling gallons and gallons and GALLONS of pure, local, Grade A and Grade B Maple Syrup! Our thrifty customers will tell you that you can save money by buying maple syrup in larger containers. If you don't use your syrup quickly, though, you might find some harmless mold developing in the container over time. This will look like a grey film only on the surface. As mentioned, this mold is harmless, but none of us wants to pour that on our flapjacks! First off, to prevent or prolong the emergence of this mold, you can refrigerate, or preferably, freeze the maple syrup. This retards the formation of mold. I have a 1/2 pint squeeze bottle we leave out for regular use and refill with maple syrup stored in the back of our refrigerator.

If you do find mold, don't fret. Simply scoop out the scum with a spoon. If you aren't comfortable with just that, you can go an extra step and reboil the syrup in a pan on your stove. Just bring it to a boil for a minute, then cool and repack into a jar. Make sure you clean your jar thoroughly if you are reusing it so you aren't giving the mold a jump start again!

For great maple flavor in a different form, give maple sugar a try. We're working with the Woods family near Spring Valley to bring you this simple, delicious local, whole food sugar. It can be used as a 100% replacement for refined white sugar in all of your recipes. The chocolate chip cookies I made with it last week were divine - instead of 1/2 brown sugar and 1/2 white sugar, I used all MAPLE sugar. Use locally milled flour (sorghum flour for gluten free), local butter, fair trade vanilla and chopped up organic fair trade dark (or orange, or mint, or...) chocolate for a truly local spin on the standard cookie!

Pictured: Four generations of the Wood's tapping a tree. (Could there be a better last name for a family in the maple business!?!)

Hospitatalito Invitation VIA Farmer To Farmer Coffee!

Farmer to Farmer Coffee fans will be happy to celebrate one of the projects supported by Guatemalan coffee sales!

Keep supporting local efforts towards FAIR TRADE and the amazing projects that can be nourished by this premium for small communities throughout the world (even locally!)

http://www.hospitalitoatitlan.org/

The Life & Rebirth of Hospitalito Atitlán from dinoKitten on Vimeo.

Just Local Food 101

Just Local Food 101

When was the last time you were excited about buying groceries?

You’ll find out all about our products, hear the stories of our farm
partners and suppliers, and get to taste various samples. At the end of
the personalized store tour, you can go on a shopping spree and get a
10% discount. Knowing the stories behind the food helps you understand
why buying just and local food is both important and rewarding.

Fri Sept 17 6:30 - 7:30pm
Tue Sept 21 7 - 8pm
Tue Sept 28 9am - 10am
Tue Oct 5 7pm - 8pm
Wed Oct 13 9am - 10am
Mon Oct 25 7pm - 8pm


from last year, Spectator:
Just local fun
'Just Local Food 101' teaches the benefits of organic and local food

All food has a story behind it. At Just Local Food, anyone can find out
that story.

Tonight starting at 7:30 p.m., Just Local Food, 1117 S. Farwell, will
open its doors to anyone who wants to learn a little more about local
food. Their session is called "Just Local Food 101."

People can come in, take a tour of the store given by a store employee
and browse all product sections. This is all an opportunity to ask any
questions about suppliers, good topics and basic nutrition.

Aaron Ellringer, one of the owners of Just Local Food, said one of the
store's missions is to educate more people about local food and having
the event was very crucial to that.

According to the Just Local Food Web site, its "mission is to provide
delicious food, local products and loving and dedicated service in order
to promote healthy people and a healthy planet."

Ellringer said many people have questions about Just Local Food and this
event is a way to address many of those questions.

"People wonder what is organic? What is available year-round? Is it more
expensive? Does it taste different? We want to address that," he said.

Ellringer has definite experience when it comes to nutrition, he said.

He has worked in and co-managed various grocery stores for more than 10
years, has worked on local farms and has experience dealing with
regional farmers and producers, he said.

Though people might enjoy learning about the food they eat, others might
find that the end of the tour is worth their while.

"You get a virtual tour of our local countryside, learn about some great
local food producers, ask that burning question and take a discounted
shopping spree at the end," Ellringer said.

For those that have never been interested in buying food locally or
organically, Ellringer suggests taking a trip to the Phoenix Park
farmer's market sometime in the summer to experience all the different
kinds of food they have to offer.

Just Local Food offers food from many places in Wisconsin.

Their suppliers include Blackberry Hills Farm, which supplies fresh
fruits and vegetables from Dunn County; Bullfrog Trout Farm, supplying
fish from Menomonie; Gingerbread Jersey Cheese from Augusta; and Sand
Creek Brewing, locally made beers from Black River Falls.

Ellringer said Just Local Food will start holding these types of classes
on a more regular basis so many more people can attend.

They are also expanding the type of classes to include "Produce 101,"
"Local Meat 101" and "Local Beer 101."

For more information on Just Local Food, visit
justlocalfood.blogspot.com

Local Meat Sale

Starting Saturday Sept 4 and for the entire month of September Just Local Food is reducing your meat grocery cost by 10%.
Check out your favorite supplier or try a new one.

Beaver Creek Ranch - uncured bacon, chicken breasts and thighs, ground chicken and turkey, pork and turkey apple brats, italian sausage and chorizo, pork chops and tenderloins, beef hot dogs, and a new item Keta salmon - line caught in the upper Copper river in Alaska.
Beeler's - uncured bacon and wieners.
Coon Creek Family Farm - whole or cutup chicken, wings and legs..
Crescent Meats - bacon, ham, pork roasts, bologna, elk and pork bratwursts, elk and beef summer sausages, elk and beef jerky.
Deutsch Family Farm - bacon, ground italian and pork sausages, breakfast links, pork chops and ribs.
Gingerbread Jersey - bacon, ground pork sausage, bratwursts, deli ham.
Golden Hill Buffalo - ground and patties.
Lamb A Lot - lamb brats, ground lamb, kabobs, gyro, french rack, chops.
Little Spring Valley - beef steaks, roasts, burger, and patties.
Werlein Family Farm - beef steaks, roasts, and burgers.. (ask about the Bundle)
Wheatfield Hill Organics- beef steaks, roasts, and burger.


the construction is just about over, so stop on down and save 10%..