FoamRangers Brewsletter Archive & Blog

Tis the season for Dixie Cup brewing.  The event is less than 2 months away and if there is beer to be entered then it needs to be brewed. As a 13 year plus home brewer I have the proper equipment and tools to make good beer, unfortunately I don’t have much room in my apartment to bust out a cajun cooker, mash tun and 15 gallon kettle.  The beauty of being a home brewer is finding a way to make it happen.  So with a few stock pots, my mash tun and some buckets I made two beers on Tuesday.  I brewed a Stout and a Bitter. One left a Belgian Wit.  With the Jimmy Paige cross entering philosophy that’s got to be like 15 categories right?

Here is a picture of my hot liquor tank (bucket), mash tun (square cooler and proud), and bucket to catch the wort.  All gravity baby.  Brewing doesn’t need to be complicated and have magnetically driven pumps (although if you want to send me one I will gladly take one).

Stock pots a brewing putting most of the hops in only one. Doesn’t matter who get all of the hops as long they all go in together.

Well here ya go. Another entertaining Brewsletter.  This month the “Putz” poses with his Malt Liquor bottle previewing the 25th anniversary Dixie Cups special category, “Malt Liquor”. He demonstrates how to judge and evaluate the beer properly (by a dumpster).   Also in this issue is an update on the Dixie Cup by TBob, not to mention his in depth article about In Bev taking over the Foam Rangers.  The Waz gives us the state of things, while Storge gives us the low down on Pale Ales and Bitter this month.   G-lover Scrivens the month to month events of the club, and everybody’s favorite, picture pages from the Pool Party, Lunar Rendezbrew and a host of other events.   Enjoy!  Click on link below.

August-Brewsletter 2008

Malt Liquor Time!

BTW if you find errors (Like a the wrong month on the styles calendar) Cut me some slack ok?

Editor

Went to the Dixie Cup planning meeting at the Gingerman last Saturday.  Looks like things are moving along as T-Bob wrangles in the volunteers for one of the biggest and best home brew contests in the country. JD showed up preliminary artwork for the event and there was discussing on the “Malt Liquor” category which will be the special category this year.  Dave C. has set up the website and you can go to it here. Eventually it will be the place where you can register online.

Of course we had a couple of fine beers at the Gingerman.  Nothing like pitchers of good IPA’s and other strong ales. (George rushes for a glass of beer from the pitcher.

I tried to get T-Bob to make a commercial  for the Dixie Cup, but due to low light and production values we ended up with this.  In the meantime we’ll have to deal with this.