Brew Day come and Brew Day go

We lost count, not surprisingly, but I think this is our 5th month of brewing since Spring.  We are getting our processes down and having a blast…quite a blast.  As I indicated before, we held this meeting of The Backyard Brewing Society at Dayton’s premiere spot for craft beer, Boston’s Bistro. 

One of the aims of this session, unfortunately timed at the same time as Oktoberfest, was to meet up with other homebrewers.  Fortunately, we fulfilled our mission as we hooked up (in the meeting sense) with several local brewers, as well as my fellow Twitter friend, Mike.

We discussed bringing the Trojan horses with us, but Dave & Drew decided on using Drew’s truck, which worked quite well.  I think Drew only rightfully threatened me once about melting the paint on his tailgate with my burner.

Today was deemed even more special for us because it was Eric’s birthday and Dave’s maiden all-grain brew.  Eric brewed a double IPA, which he plans to cellar for a year in order to wait and open it next year on his 40th birthday.  I think know I would have a hard time with his timeline.  Dave brewed an IPA, I brewed an Oatmeal Stout, and Drew brewed “ManNight Ale”…which reminds me, we need to schedule a new ManNight!

One of the benefits of Boston’s was good beer.  Not that our typical homebrew is good, but here we were dealing with a known quantity.  On tap was Founder’s Breakfast Stout, Southern Tier’s Harvest Ale, Flying Dog’s Imperial Gonzo Stout, and of course, Stone’s Arrogant Bastard.

We realized, although the summer weather is nice, winter will really be our brewing time.  Without the distractions of “outside” work that so occupies our weekends, brewing can take central stage…in the garage, of course!