As a warning to all brewers – please be sure to tighten all keg fittings. I left a newly full keg hooked up to the gas with the liquid line loose, and the entire keg emptied itself into my chest freezer. True sadness is scooping cups of your beer into a bucket and dumping the entire 5 gallons into the sink. I don’t have a picture, but I’ll let you imagine the awful mess.
As consolation, I brewed up a chocolate espresso stout, recipe to be found here. The boil took an extremely long time, because of the large amount of grain and thus high volume of wort collected from the mash. I’m pretty excited about this one.
The Carrboro HomeBrew Festival is having another event in February. If you are a brewer, please sign up to brew for the event. It’s a great time. Here are some details:
On February 20th from 4-9, we are organizing another Carrboro Home Brew Festival to benefit the fight against multiple sclerosis. Our last event was a great success with over 150 people in attendance, 18 different kinds of home brew available for tasting, three bands, and some guy who did fire juggling. In order to make this next event happen we need your home brewing expertise. Guidelines have not been completely worked out yet, but basic requirements to enter are to brew one 5 gallon batch of beer, sign up on our eventbrite website, http://worldhomebrewfest.eventbrite.com/, and bring your brew, in keg or bottle, to the event. The winner of the beer tasting will get a inscribed glass mug as well as other prizes that are to be determined. For your help in brewing beer for the event, we will give you a ticket to bring a guest, you can come an hour early to taste the home brew and mingle with fellow brewers, and we will provide dinner. We have not decided upon a location or judging guidelines but we will keep you updated.
Sorry for the relatively short post – things have been busy here.
