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Our homebrew club, the Central Valley Brewers Guild, is looking into a Sacramento pub crawl, where the participants are delivered, and returned home, by Amtrak. We are looking for alcohol responsible methods of transportation to ensure that our crawlers are returned home safely, as well as not endangering the public at large.
The CVBG Founders have [...]
Woohoo! Santa brought the Lazy Brewer a new Therminator!
I’ve been an immersion chiller kinda brewer since I first starting brewing. I’ve always liked the fact that by using an immersion chiller, most of the cold break stays in my brew kettle. I also have really enjoyed the 15 seconds it takes to spray off my [...]
Stephen (formerly known as Some Guy:) and I got back home from NHC shortly after 11:00 a.m. this morning. As much as I really enjoyed NHC, it was nice to get home to familiar, comfortable surroundings and my family.
The 2009 National Homebrewers Conference was without a doubt one of the best organized conferences, on any [...]
Day 3 at NHC and I’m still alive! Today I attended the following sessions:
Commercial Hop Production and Sales and Its Effect on Homebrewers with Ralph Olson (of Hop Union)
The Equipment Geek with Kent Fletcher
Maintaining Ideal Yeast Health: Nutrients Yeast Need with Dr. Tobias Fischborn (of Lallemand, Inc.)
Yeast: Build Your Own Library with Maribeth Raines
Yeast: Ask [...]
The first couple of days at NHC have been blast! I’ve been really impressed with the organization of the entire event and I’m particularly pleased that everything starts on time. Kind of surprised that a bunch of beer guys (and guyettes:) can do that!
We saw a presentation at 9 a.m. this morning with Sam Calagione [...]
Stephen and I are off to the National Homebrewers Conference, in Oakland, tomorrow. The conference is being held at the Oakland Marriott City Center, and there is a BART station right across the street, so the family is joining me to take in the sights of the city. Stephen and I are staying one night [...]
