great recipe tool

I just found this http://www.beertools.com/html/recipes.php I think I have come across it before… anyway it looks really great. use it.

what i love about pubs

alright i am in Ireland right now and it is certainly beautiful. i stopped over in England and while i was there, two big soccer (football) games were on. so what did i do, that’s right i went to a pub, and watched both games on huge screens with great beer. every one was cheering and screaming. it was great. maybe someday that will be us. plus my team won and it doesn’t get better than that. i miss you all. are you all brewing tonight? let me know how it goes. peace, jared

a nice brew tour

while in Cleveland, Jaime and I went on a tour of the Great Lakes Brewery. It was interesting, though the whole time i was thinking we could do this. the warehouse it self was very unorganized, stuff everywhere and the tour seemed hap-hazard. (not to mention that they take some mega-brewery short cuts like mechanically speeding up the fermentation and force carbonating their bottles  this is never very impressive.) it was interesting because the beer was good and the brewery itself is very successful. it made me think about how important presentation is and how your need to be able to tell about your passions. for one of the first times in my life i understood the process and what the equipment was for. really it was just a larger scale of what we do. how exciting to think that some day we will giving tours of our brewery and sharing the story of our birth. i can’t wait. you can check out their website here.

Tucson Homebrew Club

Finding out about the Tucson Hombrew Club was just one of the highlights of attending the 21st annual greater Tucson beer festival.

The thc was present offering samples of delicious homebrew whilst brewing a batch at the festival. They were also explaining the process and offering pointers to attendees.

It was a nice feeling to be able to look at their equipment and know what everything was for and how to use it.

Here are some of the benifits of memebership as listed on the thc site:

So, why join? Here are a few of the reasons:

• Expand your knowledge of brewing at club-only seminars
• Share knowledge with brewers from all skill levels, from first time extract brewers to expert all-grainers to pro brewers.
• 10% discount at Brew your own Brew, 2564 N Campbell Ave #106, for Tucson Homebrew Club members
• Access to Member-only mailing list
• Access to Member-only forums on this website
• Fun social events such as the Annual Oktoberfest Campout
• And there are many more!

get you tucson beer festival tickets online

   Yup, tickets in advance are cheaper, even with the convenience fee of buying them online.

You can buy them online here…

Tucson’s celebration of beer

That’s right, our great city recognizes that beer is something to celebrate and will be doing so at the 21st annual great tucson beer festival. here is a little write up from their website.

21st Annual Great Tucson Beer Festival September 22, 2007 Hi Corbett Field, Central Tucson, 6 – 10 p   This is not just an an evening of beer tasting with breweries from all over the Southwest. It’s also an evening of great entertainment with a silent auction, VIP section, appetizers, non alcoholic beverages and live music

it is unfortunate that we will be out of town, but this is an important event for us. so consider it a working event. go, enjoy, and help tucson celebrate beer.

brewing FRIDAY not thursday

please read this and note that there has been a change in plans. Those of us that work at aldea have a staff meeting thursday night and i completely forgot about it. so we are not going to be able to brew thursday night. so here is the new plan i hope it works.

Jamie and i were thinking about friday night at 6. we were thinking about making it an evening of food, beer bottling, beer brewing, and bread making. those of you with kids are welcome to bring them. we can all eat together and your kids are welcome to go down to sleep here. does that sound good?  i am sorry about the sudden change, i forgot about this meeting. i have talk to most of you and it sounds like this works. so e-mail us all back and let me know. i am send this out as an e-mail and posting it on the blog so that we get used to using it as well. so you all friday, jared

update on thursday brewing

turns out that we are going to have to move the brew date for this week. thursday will not work for Jared, me or Aaron.  we are thinking of shooting for friday. more to come…

jareds brew email

hey all I am posting jareds email regarding brewing. I am doing this so that we get used to using the blog. Lets each check it daily for info on what’s going on as well as sharing recipes, learning, beer jokes, and other fun stuff

hey everybody, how are you all doing?

i just wanted to throw a heads up out there. after getting most of your feedback, we have decided to brew at our house. we are going to bring the equipment and all down here. this was decided for a couple reason 1. brewing up at the church was a sort of a sterile environment and there was a lot of standing. we are hoping that at our house brewing can be more community oriented.

2. we are making bread with the spent grains and it is easier to have all that equipment at hand.

3. though the drive will be a pain for some (and for that i am sorry) but it is actually closer for the majority of us. (mainly i am sorry to kevin and aaron, but with good beer, good food, and good company maybe we can make it worth your while.)

 

Noah and heather, i believe you all agreed to pick out the receipt, which i saw you did on the blog, thank you. can you both pick up the ingredients at brew you own brew? let me know if there are problems with this. also, we will all need to start chipping in for ingredients so we can pay those back that have paid so far. but soon that is what the bread will take care of.

 

i can’t wait to see you all soon. how does 5:00pm thursday sound? jared

brewing this thursday

hey all, last thursday was a blast! this thursday we were thinking of mixing it up and brewing at the Perkins home rather than at the church. Jared, can you fill us in as to what time? This week we not only have to brew a batch, we also have to bottle, so let’s keep that in mind.

also who is getting the ingredients? Heather found a recipe similar to Alaskan Amber Ale, should we give that a shot?