New Club and Big Brew Day!

Well everyone,

It's been quite some time since I posted but I've been real busy lately. We have recently formed and registered a new brew club called the Volusia County Home Brewers Guild to represent the local brewers of beer, wines and meads. We are going on our 4th monthly meeting this month and our membership keeps growing with each one! We started with 3 members, and now we have 12!
Not too bad.

We recently celebrated the AHA's Home Brewer's Holiday called BIG Brew Day at my place last Saturday. We had a total of 5 brewers attend. We brewed up a big batch of this year's recipe called Saison Du Mont. We mashed over 50 lbs of grain for this one, ran off 25 gallons of wort in to my large kettle, then split the contents between each brewer, so that they could boil and add their hops and spices on their own. The session was a great success as we hit all of our projected numbers and gravities without making any adjustments! Each brewer brought home their 5.25 gallon batch in their own primary fermenters to ferment on their own. We had 2 different yeasts to choose from. Those being Wyeast 3724 or the White Labs WLP550. Once these beers are done and ready, we plan to compare the differences between these yeasts and beers! It should be interesting.

We are also getting ready to participate in this year's Daytona Cubs Annual Beerfest, and will have out portable bar set up and pouring our club members samples for all to enjoy. That will be held on June 6th at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, FL. C'mon down if you can!

Here's some pics of our BIG Brew Day, enjoy:

Hope you had a great BIG Brew Day as well!