I'm thinking of starting up a brew club...and I mean a club in the looses sense of the word. I'm not terribly interested in managing a club per say, but I would like to be more involved with local brewers.
I am calling it a club as a way to advertise myself & homebrewing locally to get together with some other brewers in the area with the idea that getting a few people together in the guise of a club will prompt me to get off my lazy duff when it comes to brewing more beer and growing my skills a bit, rather than just going batch by batch making all my own mistakes damnit! (its sometimes nice to watch others make mistakes for you )
Also as a club benefit getting other brewers nearby interested in doing group buys with the LHBS ( nearly 50 miles away) and bring the grain bill down a little by buying in bulk as well as having that sort of resource of local brewers in emergency situations (like oh, poo forgot to pick up yeast and LHBS is closed/ too far).
I am calling it a club as a way to advertise myself & homebrewing locally to get together with some other brewers in the area with the idea that getting a few people together in the guise of a club will prompt me to get off my lazy duff when it comes to brewing more beer and growing my skills a bit, rather than just going batch by batch making all my own mistakes damnit! (its sometimes nice to watch others make mistakes for you )
Also as a club benefit getting other brewers nearby interested in doing group buys with the LHBS ( nearly 50 miles away) and bring the grain bill down a little by buying in bulk as well as having that sort of resource of local brewers in emergency situations (like oh, poo forgot to pick up yeast and LHBS is closed/ too far).