MetallHed
Well-Known Member
I'm planning a homebrewing get-together with my brewing buddies at a public park and am wondering if anyone has any experience putting something like this together and could provide some insight.
The plan is to get between 5-10 rigs together. I rented a pavilion so we'll have some shelter and the park has grills that we can use to cook food while we brew. We are bringing our own bottled water to brew with and have a plan to pump creek water through a pre-chiller and then to our ICs to cool down our wort. We are also going to bring brew to share with each other.
This is not a "public" event. It's not going to be advertised and we aren't serving random people beer. It's just for our group of brewers to bring their rigs to a central place and brew "together but separate" instead of all of us going to one person's house and watch them brew.
The other thing I thought is we would all pitch the yeast into our chilled wort once we got home. That way no one can say we have a bunch of beer that we're hauling around in public. The way I understand it is that it's not technically "beer" until there is yeast in it.
Does anyone have any thoughts, tips, or suggestions that would be helpful? I obviously don't want to get us all arrested, fined, or kicked out. I've seen a ton of these kinds of events from around the US but I've never been to one and there definitely isn't one around my area.
The plan is to get between 5-10 rigs together. I rented a pavilion so we'll have some shelter and the park has grills that we can use to cook food while we brew. We are bringing our own bottled water to brew with and have a plan to pump creek water through a pre-chiller and then to our ICs to cool down our wort. We are also going to bring brew to share with each other.
This is not a "public" event. It's not going to be advertised and we aren't serving random people beer. It's just for our group of brewers to bring their rigs to a central place and brew "together but separate" instead of all of us going to one person's house and watch them brew.
The other thing I thought is we would all pitch the yeast into our chilled wort once we got home. That way no one can say we have a bunch of beer that we're hauling around in public. The way I understand it is that it's not technically "beer" until there is yeast in it.
Does anyone have any thoughts, tips, or suggestions that would be helpful? I obviously don't want to get us all arrested, fined, or kicked out. I've seen a ton of these kinds of events from around the US but I've never been to one and there definitely isn't one around my area.