OFFICIAL RULES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MOUNT ROYAL LIGHT RECIPE CONTEST

OFFICIAL RULES, TERMS & CONDITIONS OF THE
MOUNT ROYAL LIGHT RECIPE CONTEST

SWEEPSTAKES FACTS
ELIGIBILITY: Must be 21+ years of age, may be asked to provide proof. Must be legal Wisconsin resident. Must provide full shipping address to receive prizes. General Beverage and Saratoga employees not eligible.
PRIZES:
3 winners: Drawstring bag of Mount Royal Light promotional items.
FINAL CLOSING DATE: 4/30/2012

YOU HAVE NOT YET WON.
ALL ENTRIES HAVE THE SAME CHANCE OF WINNING.

No one will know who the winners are until after the sweepstakes ends. Final Closing Date is the last date entries are accepted. See Official Rules for details.

ENTRY IS FREE.
You don’t have to buy anything to enter. Just fill out the Entry Form as directed. Each entry you submit will have an equal chance of receiving the most votes from Facebook peers.

BUYING WON’T HELP YOU WIN.

Your chances of winning without a purchase are just as good as the chances of someone who buys something.

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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN

PURCHASE OF MOUNT ROYAL LIGHT WHISKY WILL NOT IMPROVE AN ENTRY’S CHANCE OF WINNING

The Mount Royal Light Recipe Contest (the “Contest”) is sponsored by General Beverage Sales Company (“Sponsor“). Sweepstakes begins at 12:00AM CT on March 1, 2012 and ends at 11:59PM CT on April 30, 2012 (the “Contest Period”).

1. ELIGIBILITY: Contest open to legal residents age 21 and older of the state of Wisconsin. Employees, officers and directors of Sponsor and its parent companies, affiliates subsidiary companies, judging agents and promotion partners and their immediate families (parents, children, siblings, spouse) or members of the same household (whether related or not) of such employees/officers/directors are not eligible to enter. Sweepstakes is governed by the laws of the U.S.A. Sweepstakes is void outside of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and where taxed, restricted or prohibited by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

2. HOW TO ENTER: You can enter this Contest via the Internet. During the Contest Period, please go to: http://www.facebook.com/MountRoyalLight and “like” the Mount Royal Light Facebook page. Another window will open up where you will be asked to enter your information for entry. You can also go to http://mountroyallight.com/contests and click on the link which will bring you to the Facebook page to enter the sweepstakes. To be eligible, all entries must be received by 11:59PM CT on April 30, 2012. Only fully completed entry forms are eligible. Full shipping address must be provided to receive one (1) Mount Royal Light bag of goodies if your entry is voted and deemed the winner. Proof of submission will not be deemed proof of receipt by Sponsor. All entries become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Each entry has an equal chance to win. Any dispute regarding submission of online entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organizations (e.g. business, educational institute) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Any potential winner may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that such winner is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the winning entry. Sponsor is the official timekeeper for this Contest. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the operation of the website or the entry process.

4. PRIZES: Three winners will receive a Mount Royal Light drawstring bag full of Mount Royal Light promotional items. The Total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of the prize package is $15. The prizes are not transferable cannot be assigned, substituted or redeemed for cash. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value in the event that any of the stated prizes cannot be awarded due to circumstances beyond the control of the Sponsor. All taxes, if any are the sole responsibility of the winners. Neither the sponsor nor its affiliates or subsidiaries will be responsible for any loss, liability or damage arising out of the winners’ acceptance or use of the prize.

5. SELECTION OF WINNER/ODDS: A total of three (3) winners will be selected by Facebook user voting on all eligible entries received on or about April 30, 2012. Voting results are final and binding in all respects. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Winner will be notified by submitted email and on the Mount Royal Light Facebook page within 14 days of the drawing and may be required to execute a Statement of Eligibility and Release and Payment Authorization within 14 days of prize notification attempt or Winner will be disqualified and prize may be awarded to the entry with the next highest amount of votes. Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and an alternate winner may awarded to the entry with the next highest amount of votes. Entry and/or acceptance of prize constitutes permission for the Sponsor, Prize Provider and its agencies to use the winners’ name, address (city and state) and/or likeness for advertising and trade purposes without further compensation or authorization, worldwide and in perpetuity, in any and all forms of media, now known and hereafter devised, unless prohibited by law.

6. CONDITIONS: By entering, participants agree to be bound by these complete Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor. By participating, entrants and winners agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Prize Provider and their respective affiliates, partners and promotion and advertising agencies and each of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors, from any and all liability, for loss, harm, damage, injury, cost or expense whatsoever including without limitation, property damage, personal injury and/or death which may occur in connection with, preparation for, travel to, or participation in Contest, or possession, acceptance and/or use or misuse of prize or participation in any Contest-related activity and for any claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy and merchandise delivery. Sponsor is not liable for late, lost, delayed, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, garbled or jumbled, stolen, postage due mail or illegible entries or for printing, distribution or production errors. No facsimile, mechanical reproduced, altered or forged entries. Sponsor is not liable for any technical malfunctions of any telephone network or lines, computer internet system, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this sweepstakes, or other technical difficulties or failures or other errors of any kind. Sponsor and Prize Provider and their respective affiliates are not responsible or liable for any injury or damage to an entrant’s or third person’s computer and/or its contents, related to or resulting from Contest. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with this Contest will be ineligible for prizes and may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Sponsor reserves the right to terminate or modify the sweepstakes at any time for any reason. In such circumstances prize will be awarded based on entries received to date of termination. All prizes will be awarded.

7. CONSUMER INFORMATION: General Beverage Sales Company may share customer information about you with reputable companies in order for them to offer you products and services of interest to you. If you would rather we not share information, wish to receive a list of winners, a copy of the Official Rules, have any questions about the Contest, or you do not want to receive future sweepstakes or skill contest mailings from General Beverage Sales Co., specify your request and send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Mount Royal Light Facebook Sweepstakes c/o Karri Duerwachter, General Beverage Sales Co., 16255 W. Stratton Dr. New Berlin, WI 53151.

Last Revised: February 28, 2012

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It’s a Family Affair

As promised in my last post, From the Kitchen of Grandma Olive, here are some pictures from this weekend! Click on the thumbnail image to see a bigger photo. There were 44 total touque pies made, 32 large and 12 small. Lots of the family participated, family members of all ages! I still want to hear about your family traditions!

Rolling dough with lots of flour!

Grandpa filling the pies with meat

“It’s-a pizza pie-a!”

Baking the pies

Checking on the pies

Some of the 44 pies made

More of the 44 pies made

From the Kitchen of Grandma Olive

Every year my family makes what we call touque (took-kay) together for the holiday season. This year we’re having touque-making December 3rd! Touque is also called Tourtière which is French for “pie dish.” It is a meat pie that originated in Quebec, Canada (Woohoo Canada products represent!!) and is a traditional French-Canadian Christmas and New Year’s dish served at dinnertime.

Great-Grandma Olive

There is not one specific recipe for touque but my family uses a recipe my Great-Grandma Olive always used that has been passed-down for generations. Traditionally, you make a LOT of pies for the extended family the first week of December. Members from each family gather at the oldest mother’s home to help make the pies. My family makes 35-45 pies each year. The pies are then frozen and the first pie of the new batch cannot be eaten until Christmas morning. This recipe is for one pie.

 

**Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

 

SPECIAL SUPPLIES

• Pastry cutter or cuisinart with sharp blade to mix dough
• Cake tin (not a pie tin, sides on cake tins are higher & not slanted)
• Rolling Pin
• Blender to puree onion

INGREDIENTS FOR MEAT

• 1 pound coarsely ground pork (if they don’t have ground pork, ask the butcher for pork shoulder and have them ground it for you)
• 1/6 of a large onion
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1 cup water

DIRECTIONS TO MAKE MEAT
Puree onion in blender. Add correct amounts of meat, onion, water, salt and pepper. Cook on stove and add more water if there is not enough juice after evaporating. There should be about 2/3 meat and 1/3 juice after cooked.

INGREDIENTS FOR DOUGH

• 1 cup flour
• 1 (rounded) tablespoon Crisco
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup ice-cold water

DIRECTIONS TO MAKE DOUGH
Blend dry ingredients first with cuisinart or pastry cutter. Then add wet ingredients until mixture forms into a ball. Roll out a bottom crust (about 1/4 inch thick) of dough to cover inside of cake tin. Trim extra dough off sides after pinching around rim of tin. Roll the top crust, also about 1/4 inch thick, to lay over the top of the tin.

DIRECTIONS TO FINISH

• Fill cake tin about 2/3 full with meat and juice
• Cover meat with top crust. Pinch top crust to bottom crust around the rim of tin.
• Trim off the extra pie crust.
• Bake at 400 degrees until edges are slightly browned (about 20-30 minutes)
• Let it cool.
• Cover with tinfoil or put in large Ziploc bag
• Freeze until ready to eat.
• Reheat in oven at 350 degrees F for 1 hour uncovered before eating.

I’ll try to get some pictures posted of my amazing family making touque this weekend. It is quite the production considering there are over 40 of us (Including aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents!) What are some of your family traditions? I want to hear all about them in the comments!

Making That Frisky Whisky

I apologize in advance for this semi-boring post (boring to me, anyway) but the process of making whisky is something we need to touch on as amateur whisky drinkers, right? Right! I did a lot of research and this is what I understood, if I am wrong or you have anything to add, by all means, comment below!!

 

Here is a diagram to help you follow along!

 

As we learned from a previous posting, To E or not to E…that is the question!, whisk(e)y is “the general term covering bourbon, rye, Scotch and other liquors distilled from a mash of grain.” But what does “distilled” and “mash of grain” actually mean? How does the whole whisky-making process actually work? It’s a pretty complicated process with a lot of steps that all depend on what kind of whisky you’re making but I’ll try to give you a basic run-down.

If you’re more of a visual learner, check out this video on how to make whisky and then come back for the details.

Malting
All grains except barley are ground up, mixed with water, and then cooked. Barley is malted instead of cooked. The barley is soaked in water to germinate, or sprout, and then spread out and watered for about three weeks until it sprouts. This process converts the starch in barley into sugars. Once the barley sprouts, it is dried with hot air to stop the germination process.

Mashing
Mashing is when the combination of cooked grain, malted barley and warm water is mixed with heat to create a mash. For Scotch malt whiskey, the cooked grain is omitted from the combination. Mash is a cloudy, sugar-rich liquid, which is then ready to be distilled.

Fermenting
Before the distilling can happen, however, yeast needs to be added to the mash. The yeast organisms convert the sugars in the mash to alcohol. After 3-4 days of fermenting in the fermentation tank, the result is a liquid containing 10% alcohol. This liquid is called wash (in Scotland) or distiller’s beer (in the United States).

Distilling
Distilling is a way to separate mixtures by heating them to their boiling points. After fermenting, the wash is boiled to 172 degrees Fahrenheit because that’s alcohol’s boiling point. The alcohol turns into a vapor and is collected, condensed back into a liquid and collected. It is now called “low wine.” The low wine is distilled a second time to produce “high wine” which is about 70% alcohol.

Aging
The high wine is now ready to be aged in wooden barrels. Water is added to reduce the alcohol content. Usually to 50 or 60% for American whiskies and 65% for Scotch. Environment plays a part on how alcoholic the whiskies end up. “Scotch whiskeys are aged in cool, wet conditions so they absorb water & become less alcoholic. American whiskeys are aged in warmer, drier conditions so they lose water and become more alcoholic.”

Any questions? Ask in the comments!