Teach Day Successful!

Thank you to all of you who came out Saturday to make Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day such a great success! Under beautiful skies, we entertained 15 new brewers with our demonstrations, gave away four complete starter kits, gave out contact cards so that new brewers can find a club member for brewing help, brewed five batches of nearly identical Northern English brown ale (come to the Christmas party to taste what the five different yeast strains might do to those otherwise-similar worts!), and signed up new members to the club! Oh yeah--we might have drank some beer, too. A very big thank you to the main volunteers--Mike Behrendt, Al Boyce, Mike Moranz, Doug Hoverson, Gera Exire La Tour, and Marc Donnelly. Without them, it would have been a sad day indeed. Also, thanks goes to Jonathan Crist and Kris England for bringing materials to encourage memberships in the local and national clubs. And of course, big thanks to John Moore at Barley John's for hosting us-- Brew and Grow and Wind River for each donating both equipment and ingredient kits-- Midwest Homebrew Supplies for donating an equipment kit and helping us with extract-- and Northern Brewer for donating an equipment kit and all the yeast, hops, and grains. Thanks to the above also for helping with the promotion of the event. Thanks to those who set up, cleaned up, and kept the day moving easily. Take care, John