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A brewing renaissance
Fascination with variety and atmosphere has created a growing market for beer brewed at smaller breweries and pubs.
The Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St., often is packed with customers who enjoy the variety of beer that a small brewery can offer.
By Cathleen Siechta Kansan staff writer
Patrons of the Free State Brewing Company may not realize it, but they are part of a renalissance. The American beer-brewing renaissance, that is
The American beer-brewing renaissance, that is.
"The taste of the American public is expanding," said Chuck Magerl, owner of Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St. "In the food and beverage industry, a fascination with flavors has emerged. Over the past five years, we have brewed over 25 varieties of beer here, and they are all fairly popular."
Magerl said that the popularity of smaller breweries and brew pubs, restaurants that usuallybrew and sell beer on the premises, had grown because major breweries often didn't offer a large variety of beer.
The main varieties of beer are ales and lagers. Ales are made with a yeast that floats to the top of the beer. The brewing process for ales is shorter than for lagers, which are beers brewed with a yeast that sinks to the bottom of the beer and served at cooler temperatures. Speciality beers such as herb beer, fruit beer, wheat beer and malt liquor also are offered at smaller breweries like Free State.
However, breweries still are not as abundant as they were about a century ago. In 1880, there were 2.272 breweries in the United States.
Steve Johnson, writer and publisher of World Beer Review, a bimonthly newsletter devoted to the pursuit of good beer, said that small breweries were leading the way in the beer renaissance. He said that although 99 percent of all beer still was produced by major breweries, 99 percent of all interesting beer was produced in small breweries and brew pubs.
Only 583 breweries remained when the Volstead Act, formally known as the National Prohibition Act, was passed in 1920. Brewing did not stop then — it just became illegal. Americans who enjoyed drinking turned to home brewing and speakeasies that sold beer, wine and spirits.
With the repeal of the prohibition act in 1933, many small breweries reopened, but business was better for large brewers. Small breweries struggled through the next 50 years, and by 1980, only 82 breweries that offered a limited variety of beer remained in the United States.
John Montgomery, owner of Boulevard Brewing,
2501 Southwest Blvd. in Kansas City, Mo., said that the bland taste of American beer increased interest in fuller-flavored, imported beers.
"Imports were the first stage of the rebirth of smaller breweries," Montgomery said. "In the 1970s, people who went to Europe and drank the beer there started to realize we were getting screwed. The Europeans wouldn't even drink what we think are great beers in the United States."
Montgomery said that larger breweries in the U.S. tended to take natural ingredients like hops and malt out of their beer. Beer made at smaller breweries also is not shipped as far, so the beer remains fresh, Montgomery said.
"Small breweries exist because large breweries created a market for us," he said. "They make 100 different products, and they all taste the same. This is the first time since prohibition that people have a choice about their beer."
Ian West, co-owner of the Little Apple Brewing Company, 1110 Westloop Plaza in Manhattan, said
the variety of beer offered by his brew pub often brought repeat customers.
"Customers can come in for lunch and have one kind of beer, and come in for dinner and have a different one," West said. "There's not just the choice of light beer or regular beer. Customers can pick a beer that fits their personality."
The beer renaissance came about because people are drawn to smaller breweries with better variety and more personalized atmospheres, Magerl said.
"Commercials tend to create an image for certain beers," he said. "If you want to play beach volleyball, drink Bud Light. If you want to have a great night life, drink Michelob. We aren't trying to say any of that. If you want to drink real beer and hang out with your friends, come to Free State."
nostalgia
University's biggest streak celebrates 20th anniversary
By David Chambers Special to the Kansan
By David Chambers
KU basketball has inspired some unusual behavior over the years. But who would have thought a Jayhawk victory would cause several hundred students to shed their clothing?
Twenty years ago yesterday, after an exciting 60-55 KU victory over intratective rival K-State, about a hundred students stripped and participated in the biggest and most famous streaking incident in KU history.
Tom Gray, a KU graduate who is now a Kansas City,
Mo., attorney, was one of those students.
"The spirit of the victory and the crowd, it just exploded into what was referred to as a streaker's ball, and Jayhawk Boulevard became filled with people literally stripping off their clothes and racing up Jayhawk boulevard toward the library," he said.
"There were probably between 500 and 600 people running up Jayhawk Boulevard, which culminated in a large gathering in front of a large bonfire," he continued. "People were dancing, and car stereos were turned up loud, and people were having an extremely wild time."
Several thousand more people gathered. Onlookers and police estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 people were on campus that night.
"I owned a Jeep, so we had several people jump on the back of the Jeep with us," he continued. "My roommate was driving, and we joined the group running up Jayhawk Boulevard in our Jeep, honking and with numerous people hanging onto the roll bar screaming as everyone was doing it."
Gray said that he had never streaked before but that on the night of March 7, he was overcome with enthusiasm.
While the March 7 streaking incident was the biggest at KU, it was not the first. Streaking was a popular form of amusement in the 1970s.
"My roommate and I were there, and these people came running by naked and streaking, and we thought this seemed like a good thing to do," he said.
In mid-February 1974, a man wearing only sneakers and a rubber nose dashed about 230 yards from the lawn of Watson Library to the bushes of a nearby parking lot.
About two weeks later, a reportedly fat and out-ofshape streaker was sighted on the east side of Hoch Auditorium.
Streakers who were caught often faced legal consequences. But in the March 7 incident only nine streakers were arrested even though hundreds of students
Official Streaking Rules
According to the 1974 Jayhawker yearbook
Section A: Equipment
1) All persons are completely equipped, but the following optional items may be used if desired.
a. Tennis Shoes:
White is considered the regulation color, but any shade may be worn as it will not be your shoes that will be checked out by spectators. b. Uniform.
See King James Bible, Genesis Chapter 2
verse 25.
1) The playing field shall extend from the Chi
Omega fountain to Watt Library.
Section B: Playing Field
2) Should a player be the object of an illegal Forward Pass, the player may exercise the option of making a reception, in which case no foil has been committed.
1) it shall be considered a tour for anyone to engage in the laying-on-of-hands during streaking. This shall be designated as an illegal Forward Pass.
Section C: Fouls and Penalties
Source: University Archives
3) There are no other restrictions
streaked, and law enforcement was heavy on campus Gray was one of the students who was arrested.
"We followed the crowd down Jayhawk Boulevard, and there is an intersection there by the School of Journalism and Bailey Hall," he said. "There's a stop sign there, and we just sort of cruised through it with the rest of the crowd. My roommate and I were then collared by the sendarme and taken down to the police station."
Within two days, the Douglas County prosecutor dismissed the charges against all nine streakers.
Gray said that even though he was arrested, he remembered his role in the University's biggest streaking incident with fondness.
"It was such a fun event and so harmless," he said. "We caught up in the emotions of a victory over K-State and the spring-like fever that had gripped the school. It was a little preposterous to arrest someone for streaking."
That was the whole point, college high-jinx and having some fun," Gray continued. "It was a pretty spectacular event."
school
Note-taking skills can be improved with simple tricks
By Susanna Löof Special to the Kansan
"It has to be easy to get the material out of the notes," he said. "Otherwise, looking at your notes is like having a textbook in front of you."
Marla McMullen thinks her note-taking skills could use some improvement.
McMullen is far from alone. Many students have problems taking notes. But those problems can be solved. Becoming a better note-taker is not impossible. All it takes is will and organization. copy ed. note: is attribution needed?
"They are scattered all over the paper," the Olathe freshman said. "A lot of times I am the good student in the beginning of class and take good notes, but in the end of the class my notes are not as good. I just stop taking notes in the middle of the class."
To make finding the important parts of notes easier, Shuttic suggested students use tricks to organize them.
Mike Shuttic, assistant director of Student Assistant Center, has been teaching note-taking seminars at the University twice a semester for two years. He said the most important aspect of note-taking was picking out the most important information.
"If there are no bold or capital letters, no arrows or underlining in the notes, it is harder to get the material out of them," he said.
In his seminars, Shuttle teaches the Cornell method for organizing notes.
One feature of the Cornell method is to leave the left third of the page blank as a margin to be used for predicted exam questions or questions about the lecture.
"The margin can be used for whatever is helping you to highlight the material." Shuttic said.
"To put the information in your own words in two or three sentences helps you to remember it, and it also makes the information make more sense," Shuttic said.
Another feature of the Cornell method is to leave a few inches at the bottom of each page blank and use the space to summarize the page after the lecture.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Some students said they had trouble taking notes because they found the professor boring.
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MARCH 8,1994
See NOTES, Page 10.
People and places at the University of Kansas.
- Last spring, a judge in Clinton, Tenn., suspended the 45-day drunken-driving sentence of Laverne Parman after he demonstrated at a hearing that he had given himself up a total of 28 times at the Anderson County jail to serve the sentence but that each time he was turned away. The jail has been cited for overcrowding and about 500 people waiting to serve sentences at the time.
LEAD STORY
In January, Nassau County, N.Y., judge Michael Gallaso dismissed sexual misconduct charges against Lamont Hough, who was accused of having unconsented sex with his brother Lenny's girlfriend. Allegedly, Lamont had appeared at her bedroom door at 5 a.m., and she had greggly assumed that Lamont was Lenny and invited him in. She realized her alleged error only when Lamont turned to her after sex and asked, "Are you going to tell Lenny?"
- In June, Brad Varmum rescued his two sons, Justin, 14, and Jared, 12, who were injured by electricity while playing near a swimming pool in Pembroke Pines, Fl. Justin had put his hand on a power line pole and was wrapped around it by the force of electricity. When Jared tried to rescue Justin, he suffered the same fate. By the time their father came to their aid, the boy's skins were purple, and they were unconscious. After being knocked down twice by electricity trying to free the boys, the father succeeded by grasping their swim trunks without touching their skin.
- In San Leandro, Calif., in January, when neighbors reported two weeks of mail and newspapers plining up outside, police broke into the home of Frederic Green, 82. After examining his stiff, cold body, police officers assumed Green was dead and called a coroner. As the coroner was taking photographs of the scene, the flash from his camera momentarily startled Green, who regained consciousness.
- In October, Canadian environmentlist William Lishman and an associate flew two ultralight aircraft form Blackstock, Ontario, to Gaines, N.Y., and then to Airlie, Va., leading a flock of 18 geese. The two men were demonstrating to the geese how to fly south for the winter. The geese had been raised in captivity and thus lacked migration skills.
COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE
- A 35-year-old man in Eagle Valley, Colo., who was badly beaten in the face in a fight at the Brush Creek Saloon on New Year's Eve, called an ambulance shortly after he arrived home because, when he blew his nose, his left eye came loose from the socket. Doctors repaired his eye orbiter bone and repositioned the eyeball.
- In January, James Brindamour, 38, fled court papers in Warwick, James RL, asking to share the proceeds of a $350,000 accidental-death policy on his daughter, who was killed in an auto crash in August. Brindamour abandoned the family in 1983 and owes more than $69,000 in child support.
See WEIRD, Page 10.