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Saturday, November 7th, is Teach a Friend to Brew Day. The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day is an international event to introduce people to the hobby of homebrewing. For the fifth time, I’ll be inviting friends – and their friends – over to learn how to brew beer. We’ll be [...]
Teach a Friend to Brew Day 2008 was a huge success! The official head count came in at 24 attendees – and very few raindrops! We had a very diverse group – with a gentleman all the way from New Zealand. Best of all, three of the attendees have all but confirmed that they will [...]
The Teach a Friend to Brew Day IPA is happily fermenting away. I started the ferment cool and it has picked up a few degrees from the fermentation process, but it is still working at a nice cool temperature. My beer might as well enjoy the cool weather while it can. Soon the summer heat in California’s Central [...]
The Teach a Friend to Brew Day IPA is currently chilling (as I am with a Summit IPA:). The brew session went well once I quit chasing the temperature of the mash. I always wig out when the mash temp is not where I expect it to be once I mash in – always forgetting that I [...]
Last Friday afternoon, I went to the taps to pull a pint of one of my favorite homebrewed IPAs, my TAFTBD IPA (Teach a Friend to Brew Day), and it spit the keg’s accumulated yeast into my my pint glass. Swearing under my breath, I realized that it was time to break out [...]
