A simple summertime wit for drinking in big gulps! A humble tribute to one of my favorite summer beers - Upland Wheat. This is the first beer I'm brewing in my new kettle.

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?item=8964

We just got done brewing beer and serving beer at Winterfest. Thanks to everyone that stopped by for a sample or some beer conversation. If you are interested in joining IBADS or brewing beer with us sometime soon, contact us.

The 2nd Annual Indiana Microbrewers Winterfest will be taking place at the Ag-Hort building at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indy on January 30, 2010 from 3-78pm.

There will be 31 Indiana breweries serving samples, over 200 beers to choose from, and an outdoor Firkin garden. Stef and I will be there too, pouring IBADS homebrew samples right along side the big boys!

Tickets are on sale for $30. See http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/festival.html for more details.

From Bob Ostrander over at indianabeer.com:

Anita Johnson and I are working with John Kruse of Brown Forman to get used-once Woodford Reserve barrels to Indiana Homebrew Clubs for a club competition at the Indiana State Fair Brewers Cup. Here's what we're planning.

Parti Gyle!
The first 5.5 gallons is drained into the kettle for Big Pig and the mash is refilled and circulated before being drained into a second kettle for Little Pig. The second mash is capped with 1/2# of chocolate malt to add some color to Little Pig. Big pig is pretty big IPA with heavy late hop additions. Little pig is a darker and weaker English beer... dark mild/brown.

Using a 60%/40% ratio for the 2x5 gallon split.

Big Pig:
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?item=8667

Little Pig:
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?item=8668

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?item=8331

From Ron Smith's email:

Tentative plans in the works for a ibads-sponsored homebrew competition/demonstration this fall. Keep the weekend of Otober 10 open and I'll post details as I get them.

Maxson - get the brewmobile ready!

Picked up this recipe off the AHA listserv. We used 16oz of Muscovado sugar in place of the dark brown and Magnum hops in place of Warrior. It was bottled this past weekend and weighed in at a hefty 9.6% ABV. Should be interesting...

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This is a grain and extract version from Bryan Selders of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.

Pre-boil tea @ 150*F
6 gallons water

In grain bag
10 oz crushed British amber malt
10 oz crushed 60 Lovibond crystal malt
8 oz crushed light chocolate malt
2 oz crushed roasted barley

Boil

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?