{"id":669,"date":"2013-09-01T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beerbarons.org\/?p=669"},"modified":"2016-04-03T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T20:42:52","slug":"meet-the-baron-tim-minger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/669\/meet-the-baron-tim-minger\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Baron: Tim Minger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Age:<\/strong> 57\"minger\"<\/p>\n

How long have you been a Baron?<\/strong> Since 2008<\/p>\n

What style do you brew most often?<\/strong> I always have an Amber Ale on tap as friends and neighbors like that one. I also like to have a Pale Ale on tap.<\/p>\n

What got you into brewing?<\/strong> I got into brewing because of David Glazewski. We work together and he brought some homebrew to a company picnic and I thought it was awesome.<\/p>\n

How often do you brew?<\/strong> I brew when my supply starts to run low, maybe 4 to 5 times a year. I usually do 10 gallon batches. Unless it is a high gravity brew, then only 5 gallons because my mash tun is too small. I don’t brew as often as I would like to, not enough people come over to drink my beers. Especially in the summer. During Packer season a lot more gets consumed at Packer parties than during the rest of the year. I wish I knew people that liked to drink beer. If anyone knows somebody like that I’m willing to share. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Do you brew solo or with other people?<\/strong> I am a solo brewer, sometimes I have somebody to come over to watch and drink beer while I brew.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite style and why?<\/strong> I don’t know if I have a favorite style. I do like Belgians, Stouts, Porters, Pale and IPAs. It depends on what I am in the mood for. I enjoy most styles of beer, mead, cider, wine, whiskey, brandy, schnapps, and Aqua Velva anything with alcohol. I am of German and Irish ancestry, enough said.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite brewery and why?<\/strong> Omergang, Tyranena, Lakefront, Founders, and New Holland<\/p>\n

What is your commmercial to homebrew consumption ratio?<\/strong> 1 to 1 or close to it.<\/p>\n

Have you ever entered a competition?<\/strong> The competitions that I have entered were State Fair in 2010, I won 1st place for a Oktoberfest, 1st place for Best of the German beer categories and was runner up for best of show. Even though my beer was an ale not a lager. I won a silver medal in the Midwinter Comp.; I think it was 2011 for a pale ale. And just recently I won 1st place for my Hefeweizen, that beer also took best of show. I was very surprised, that is a beer style that does not seem to win best of show very often.<\/p>\n

What has been your favorite Baron meeting?<\/strong> Besides the November Belgian nights, I enjoy when we have knowledgeable speakers, whether they are commercial or a Baron i.e. Dave Campbell’s talk about some of his gadgets.<\/p>\n

What is your day job?<\/strong> My vocation is machinist. I have been working as a machinist since I was a sophomore in high school. I currently work for a contract machine shop. We machine a variety of products from aerospace, mining, oil exploration, food production equipment and the rollers that make M&M’s, Skittles and Reese\u2019s Pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Age: 57 How long have you been a Baron? Since 2008 What style do you brew most often? I always have an Amber Ale on tap as friends and neighbors like that one. I also like to have a Pale Ale on tap. What got you into brewing? I got into brewing because of David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[53,55],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meet-the-baron","tag-53","tag-meet-the-baron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7FhiK-aN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbarons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}