So ... Saturday was
Learn to Homebrew Day.
We used this as an excuse to get a brew day done together with a couple of my Home-brewer friends.
At the same time, we invited a bunch of non-homebrewers over to watch and hang out. Sort of like
Big Brew Day back in May.
This time, the Brew Day was at my friend "Du"'s brewery.
Less people showed up to this brew day than BBD, but the brewers sure had a lot of fun.
During the
Big Brew Day back in May, my friend "Doc" brewed an extract batch. And, I decided that I would do the same thing this time.
I figure that if I'm doing an extract batch, there is less pressure to remember equipment (since there is less equipment for extract than for all-grain.
It also makes the brew day take less time and therefore make the chance of forgetting something in the process less likely.
Most importantly, it means I had less clean-up after the brew day.
So ... I created a quick little extract Irish Red Recipe:
