For the last several years, some friends and I have participated in our own little golf league/tour. It started when we were all in university, and we used to play Biologists vs. Historians or Biologists vs. Engineers or Scientists vs. Social Scientists. We started out calling it the Academic Golf Challenge, and it has blossomed into what we call the Academic Golf Association (AGA). We typically have 8 tourneys a year in various parts of the province and in the nearby states, on courses that range from ****ty converted cow pastures to championship courses. As golfers, we range from very good (1 guy qualified for the Canadian Amateur Championship and averages in the very low 70s) to pretty decent (several of us shoot low 80s most of the time) to really really horrendous (120+). The two things we all have in common are a lack of consistency (even the really good dude sometimes blows it and shoots a 90) and the desire to drink heroic quantities of beer while golfing. These two things are related to one another I'm sure, and have led to us calling ourselves a "Semi-Amateur Sporting Organization." Amateur literally means someone who does something because they love it. And we're ****ty enough to only love golf about half the time, hence semi-amateur.
What I'm getting at by writing this huge background, is that we now have 3 homebrewers on tour (all biologists - go figure) and we decided to make an AGA signature brew. We're all getting too old to drink crappy golf course beers, especially when we have the talent to make something good.
What style is your ultimate golf course beer? Any recipe suggestions?
What I'm getting at by writing this huge background, is that we now have 3 homebrewers on tour (all biologists - go figure) and we decided to make an AGA signature brew. We're all getting too old to drink crappy golf course beers, especially when we have the talent to make something good.
What style is your ultimate golf course beer? Any recipe suggestions?