Awesome brewday today (lousy football day for my Bengals).
I'm glad so many folks could make it. Great seeing the old crew and great to meet Anson, Doug, Eric, Dallas, and Dallas' buddy whose name I forgot.
Lots of beer to sample... Reminded me of the World Beer Fest. My personal favorite was skee's porter (EdWort's recipe), but I am kind of partial to porters in the first place.
40+ gallons of brew produced today. Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all.
I'm interested in trying the community brew that Dallas carted off (some of this, some of that, some dry S-04...)
The rainbarrel water idea, while a good one, went to hell in a hand basket when we discovered that the barrels were 55 gallon blocks of solid ice. Of course, we found out AFTER my little pump imploded.
HUGE thanks to Chad for saving the day with his fountain pump and SHAME on most of you for not bringing the bags of ice I strongly urged you to bring.
Thanks to Barc, Eric, and Evan for making ice runs and getting it all chilled.
It was a blast. I hope you all agree!