It is Sunday today – a day of rest. Boy do I need it!

Yesterday was lots of fun again. I went to a bunch of sessions. The best one for me was Ingredients 5-10 by Tomme Arthur. Tomme, from Port Brewing and Lost Abbey, is a great speaker and really shows his passion during his [...]

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The remnants of Club Night are still making me feel a bit slow today  – but that’s fine, it it was a great time. The NHC club night lets a bunch of homebrew clubs from around the country set up elaborate booths and basically show off as much as they can. More beer than you [...]

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And the day goes on. Lots of good beer at all the sessions. What a great idea! I think computer conferences (which I sometimes go to) should start this practice. Serve a nice Saison or Mild while talking about new techniques in Artificial Intelligence. It would bring in crowds and make people happy. They might [...]

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So this is basically heaven. I am currently at the National Homebrewers Conference at the Oakland Marriott. A whole bunch of homebrewers, commercial brewers, and overall beer people at a conference together drinking beer and talking about everything from what yeast variates to use (and why you would use them) or how to make ridiculously [...]

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Our kitchen floor here is so sticky that it rips my flip-flops right off my feet when I walk across. Why, you ask? Are we that dirty? Nope–we’re home brewers now.
We’ve had two big glass carboys for a few months now, but we still needed a lot of other equipment and ingredients to get started. [...]

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