At the last MUGZ meeting it was announced that our friends at Great River Brewing were offering up a special opportunity to brew on their brewhouse the day of Big Brew Day http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/events/national-homebrew-day. For those that may not know what Big Brew Day is I will explain. It is the first Saturday of May and is when homebrewers get together to brew beer at a common site. The past couple years we have been allowed to brew at Great River. So needless to say when the announcement was made there was quite a bit of excited interest. There were six lucky member names that were drawn to brew. We are being lead by Rich Nunez, a former brewer at Bent River, so he completes the seven headed Hydra of brewers.
Today we meet together to lay the ground work of the beer. We have chosen a style of beer that we are looking at and now are in the process of figuring out a recipe to accomplish of end choice. At this time I am not going to spill the beans on the style, you will need to be there on the day we brew to find out our choice. We all agreed on the beer and I think have some wonderful plans for our beer.
I look forward to the chance to brew on a real commercial system and learn some of the techniques it takes to brew on a 10 barrel system. This will be a fun long day with some hard work needed to be done to accomplish our end result.
Needless to say if you are interested in seeing what homebrewing is like and the multiple type of systems are used to make beer come on down. We will at Great River on May 7th starting around 10AM to brew. It is a great day to learn about homebrewing! Also if you do homebrew and want to join us please let Jim Smith know at jimsmith@seminarystreet.com to reserve a space.
Hope to see you there.
QC Beerguy
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