MD Spring brew day!

WE will meet in March, and brew beer!

The suggestion was heffewiezen (yech) but I can just put decent yeast in it and get a wit so whatever.

Any weekends suggested?

locations?

I'd say 98EXL or my place - we have the garage -- unless anyone else has a garage and wants to host.

I am cool with a hefe, wit, or just about anything light and summer-esque.

An interesting idea from probably close to a year or more ago - what about a "low cost" project? Try to see who can come up with a great ultra-cheap beer recipe that still tastes good, for the lowest cost. Everyone brews their own recipe that day. Then in Summer Brew Day we sample/rate/critique, and otherwise vote for our own beer to win. Prizes optional.

um! How about we concentrate on good......

Uhh I dont like hefe's give me bad gass

What about a Kolsch?

What about a wit?

What about 55 gallons of mead!!!!!!!! Ok, fine I guess we can make a beer.

What about just a regular old Pale. We should also do something really big that will age and be ready for next winter.

oh yeah, I need to go count in my cellar! see if anything snuck out!

claphamsa said:

oh yeah, I need to go count in my cellar! see if anything snuck out!

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Just make sure you only count the bottles and not pay attention to if they are full or not

jezter6 said:

What about a Kolsch?

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didnt i suggest a kolsch for the last one LOL

i got so much beer left, case of octoberfest, all my porter from brew day in the fall, a carmel vanilla cream ale, cider, I need to drink more LOL

I'm down with a mead day too!

Meade? I got over 100lbs of honey!

hmmmm he has over 100 lbs of honey and probably over 50 bottles already..... so do you ever work nights? And happen to have one of those fake rocks with a house key in it outside?

HA! if only you knew!

We can bribe the chicken lady into stealing all his mead for us!!!

We could probably even be in quatamala by the time he realized it was missing.

hell once you hit baltimore i dont care! too dangerous for me!

This coming from a guy that right near your house I saw more mexicans than when I was IN mexico.

They weren't Mexicans... they are Salvadorans and Guatemalans mostly

Sorry, I just saw illegals and janitors.... didnt stop to ask what 3rd world they were from




was that wrong for me to say?

Getting away from all the oh-too-PC-talk here... how about an old ale or wee heavy for winter 2009? I'm also interested in a pale ale, bock, or pilsner. Having said that alt or kolsch also could work, trippel, belgian pale ale, biere de garde?

getting thirsty here

We also need to stick to one recipe. No more, no less.

I vote something big. Triple, wee heavy, barleywine..... stolen mead??? sorry had to get get back off topic.

I would love to try a barley wine! and if thats what we did in march , i can brew my spring wit myself

Problem with a barleywine or any other high gravity brew is that we won't have enough space in the MLTs. Unless we're all ok with getting 2.5 gallons each.

not so! Barley wines arent that much worse than the dead guy! The worst that happens, is we have to split a batch into two (like we did this time)

For example Brewsmith posted one, 3 Gallons, with about 13 pounds grain... so make that a 10 and you get... 40 lbs? we can do that

If it's barleywine - Mike and I are out. We'll still come down and drink and have fun, but no barleywine for us.

jezter6 said:

If it's barleywine - Mike and I are out. We'll still come down and drink and have fun, but no barleywine for us.

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Looosers.

Is there anything you want to do?

well we havent decided anything, so get your panties untangled there!

jezter6 said:

If it's barleywine - Mike and I are out. We'll still come down and drink and have fun, but no barleywine for us.

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Does barleywine give you gas?

No panties in a wad - I was just saying that we're out for brewing. We'll gladly come hang out, but it's a style that neither of us are really interested in. If you guys want to do it, I'm all for hanging out and watching and enjoying beer without having to do any work this time.

In fact, I think that's my preference

Feel free to suggest something else....

How about a big ol' 8.5% saison, or a 8% Weizenbock? Big ol' beers for the early fall.

Im not really too picky but I would prefer it be something big for next winter. Anything other than a RIS

Cugel said:

How about a big ol' 8.5% saison, or a 8% Weizenbock? Big ol' beers for the early fall.

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Wiezenbock sounds cool. We make a DoppelAlt (since we couldn't lager the bock at the time) that was pretty cool.

Personally, I don't care much except that I don't have much of an interest in anything heavier than like a doppelbock. I'm not into doubles/tripels/barelywines/etc right now.

Again, I actually LIKE the idea of sitting around chilling out and drinking instead of running around like crazy.

One thing we need to be better about is to have a recipe sorted out waaay before the brewday and have the final numbers of batches a week beforehand so we can buy grain in bulk.

I had to buy 2 x 10 lb bags of 2 row @ $17 each, rather than getting 55lbs of 2 row for $43. $1.70 per lb compared to $0.78 per lb. This will cut our costs down big time.

I didn't get the 55 lb bag as I have no use for base grains - extract brewer and proud of it!

Hey - one final thing.

I'm going to buy a few pounds of hops from hopunion. Does anyone want 1/2 lb of magnum, Czech saaz or German Hellertau? The min. you can buy is 1 lb; the hops come to about $1.40 to $1.70 per ounce before shipping.

Let me know!