From Ron Smith's email:

Two big brew days coming up:

2009-04-11: Bean's (that's me) Big Brew 2009. All day, 30 gallons, good tims for sure!

2009-05-02: AHA Big Brew / National Homebrew Day. I feel like IBADS should do some mobile brewing... ideas?

On March 21st, The SUDS Club (Homebrew club in the Jasper area) is going to tour the Upland brewery in Bloomington and peruse the area bars afterwards. As of now, the tour is slated for mid-afternoon, leaving plenty of drinking time for the rest of the day and night. Aaron Rasche (Red), member of both the SUDS Club and IBADS, has invited IBADS members to come along for the ride. Anyone interested?

Beep beep!

No new content for a while, so I thought I'd post an update from my end. I got together with m1 and hicks the lesser to brew up some beer in Terre Haute last weekend... 10 gallons of an all grain amber and 10 gallons of an extract stout. I believe m1 is planning to post the recipes soon.

I kegged said amber this evening. Here's it is going in, along side a delicious glass of Pale Wheat Ale.

http://www.indycraftbeerfest.com/

Plenty of details listed on their web site, so I wont repeat too much. This is a charity event and a certified BJCP, keg-only competition. With your entry/donation of a full keg, you get 2 tickets to "sample" all day, a shot at winning a nice door prize, and a big warm fuzzy for your charitable contribution.

I'm going. Depending on how well the PWA turns out, I may enter it, otherwise I'll probably brew a batch of OHP to take.

Anyone else interested?

Anyone?

Echo?

Echo?

It was a bit hit at the brew-b-q. Special thanks to Mike, who invested several weekends in the project.

My pictures can be found here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/maxsonbd

Open to suggestions ahead of next year's event . . .

Cheers,

Ben

Mark your calenders... this year's gathering of Indiana homebrew clubs will take place on Saturday, June 7th in Indianapolis.

Stef and I will be in attendance, and I believe Maxson and Mike will be there as well to show off the Brewmobile and brew a batch of beer.

Be there or be sober!

Anybody else going?

This past weekend, a few of us briefly discussed brewing on May 17th. I'm willing to host in Memphis, but I'm also willing to drive to a more central locale. I think Maxson wants to put the brewmobile through a few tests to try and get it ready for the Brew-B-Q this summer.

Anyone interested? Location suggestions? Beer ideas?

Well, since we had a few big brewing weekends lately, I thought I'd post a few of the recipes brewed, updated (as far as I know) with actual gravity readings.

Eventually, I'll find a better way to store recipes on this site... ie something other than linking to the recipator. Anybody got any ideas?

Brewed on 2008-02-09
10 gallons of Sunnybrook Kolsch (all grain)
10 gallons of CHIPA (all grain)

[NOTE: At the last brewing get together, m1 took a lot of pictures throughout the day. He blogged about it here, but since his site is pw protected, I decided to republish it (with permission). Enjoy!]