Club Events

Here is photographic evidence that we do in fact get together and amongst sausage making, canoeing and the like, get in a whole lot of brewing.

Every year we demonstrate home brewing by--you guessed it--brewing at this alpine village in north Georgia.

Phil's accounting of the event:

We did it and the Russian Imperial Stout is now in the tank at Rick's Whistle Pig Brewery. The small beer is at my evil laboratory. There were a few minor glitches, but we squeezed 44 pounds of grain into the mash tun, hit out temp eventually, and extracted 12 gallons of a big 1.105 Russian Stout with 95 IBUs and a color so dark, the Arabs charge $50 a barrel for it. The little beer was 1.032 preboil but I got it to 1.045 with a long boil and it is happily fermenting as we speak. Rick's Irish Ale yeast is on the stout now and Carl's slurry of the same is in the frig at Rick's ready to join the bottle in about two weeks. Details will be endlessly rehashed at Club Oktoberfest this Sunday the 10th.

Lift a Stein in a salute to Rick Foote, Phil, Cheesecake Brewer Bob, Darwin and Dennis for this soon to be classic. Dennis had a name for the Stout, but it totally escapes me, probably lost between liter 1 and liter 3. The small beer could be called Czar E Ass Weak Brown. The small beer is going to be a brown ale in spirit only, because Dennis kept hitting my elbow to try and get me to drop more hops in it.

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Just before all the brewing starts, Darwin says Buh-Bye to his diet.
Here is Darwin on the Bucket Brigade to mill the grain on Dennis's Mill.
Here is the final toast. Darwin ducked out before the heavy lifting and heavy drinking began. Brewer Bob was happy to pick up the load for our departed comrade.

	Chicken City Ale Raisers Home brewing and beer appreciation in north Georgia