Every year, the American Homebrewer’s Association celebrates National Homebrew Day with the Big Brew. Again, this year, BASH joined with hundreds of other clubs’ worldwide to celebrate the day. Recipes were provided by, and in honor of, Charlie Papazian, the “father” of homebrewing in the USA. Charlie will be retiring from the beer industry this year, hence the nod from the organization he founded back in the 1970’s.
The day kicked off with the traditional toast to homebrewing at noon Central (observed worldwide). Then we got down to business. It was all grain in our exhibition that day. Our intrepid brewers, Rob and Larry, broke out their big pots (it was the big brew) and got down to mashing. Larry brewed Charlie’s Rocky’s Racoon Honey Lager while Rob took on Charlie’s Dusty Mud Irish-style Stout. We will all get to sample these at the July meeting so don’t miss it.
Notable events during the brew. Members Walt, Mark Q., Eric L., Tall Paul, Yankee Paul, Carroll, Gabriel M., all stopped by. Several others visited to see what we were doing including former member: Martin Rupp.
We christened our new tent. Stuck in the habit of taking 30 minutes to erect the tent, Mark Q and Paul didn’t hit the advertised time of 2 minutes to erect the new one (it took us 5). But we are anxious to work on it and bringing that number down.
The first beer was spilled at 12:39. I promised Rob I wouldn’t mention his name in that sentence.
Finally, although the weather was very cooperative, Larry expressed a desire for his fully electric, computer-controlled rig so he could go inside and enjoy the A/C. Rob noted that he had everything he owned out there and didn’t mind the heat.
See you at the Daniel’s on Sunday, May 19th (one week later than normal).
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