Brew Club

Met a few of the guys from the brew club I joined a couple of weeks ago, it's called Tri County Fermenters. http://www.tricountyfermenters.com/

Tim had bought hops in bulk and I was getting in on the good deal. Anyway, he said he would be brewing in the morning and heading over to Ed's after lunch and I could pick the hops up there. Ed is the club president.

So I drive down to Ed's on the motorcycle, to save on gas you know, never been there before but knew I had the right place when I saw the big cauldrons steaming out front and a couple of corny kegs in the garage.

Tim is there with his wife Tina, Jon and Ed. What are they doing? Well there's a batch of brew going of course and they are tasting beer, talking about beer, and listening to a guy talk about beer on the internet. Special occasion? Meeting? No, it's just Sunday. I'm gonna like these guys.

Anyway, they ask me what I plan on brewing. "Not a clue" says me, "I'm just getting started." So they ask if I've tried this or that, and mostly I hadn't. Next thing you know I'm handed a sampler 6pack of their homebrew. "Here take these home to try and see if you like any." Did I mention I'm gonna like these guys?

Spent about an hour there looking at Ed's setup, sampled a Dogfish Head IPA 120 min boil, (first taste seemed heavy bitter, but the aftertaste was heavy sweet?) and just talking beer and brewing. Wish my ears were working better today, could have picked up allot more.

Good group of people. Looking forward to the next time I hook up with them at the July meeting. Gonna be on call that day so I'll have to limit my tasting. :-)

Washing bottles the rest of the afternoon in prep for bottling batch #2.