Category Archives: Club Brew

Baltibrew will be brewing this sunday, June 27th at club member John's house (address below).  we will be doing 3 batches of Belgian Saison using 3 methods: extract, patial-mash, and all-grain.

April's IPA brew has been bottled and it will be available to drink/bring home during the brew.

Everyone's encouraged to bring their own personal homebrew and/or various Saison's to share/taste with the group.  Along with beer, food is always welcome, and recommended.  John also wanted me to remind everyone he has a pool so be sure to bring your swim trunks, sunscreen, and towel.

We will start mashing at 9AM and will probably wrap up by 4/5PM.  A lot of us will be there for the whole time, but if you can only stop by for a bit that's perfectly fine too.  If you could email me with your plans so we have a headcount that would be great.  See you sunday!

Location:
8804 Richmond Ave, Parkville, MD 21234

Greetings! We will be meeting this Sunday, April 25th to brew an American IPA at the home of member Matt McCann (2606 E. Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21224). This is right across from Patterson Park, with Luzerne being the nearest cross street.

The brew is all-grain so we'll be starting early — Say 9 a.m. Gotta' get water up to heat early so we can mash in early. But show up when you want to thereafter. We'll probably mash in around 10.

Bring food to share, beer or other libations to share, and something to keep you entertained over a goodly bit of the day. Bring coffee or some breakfast item if you're coming early. All-grain brewing is a much more laborious, and time consuming process than extract, so be prepared to learn a ton, and have a great time as well.

In other news, the American Homebrew Assn's National Homebrew Day (5/1) — lovingly referred to as Big Brew — is swiftly approaching, and Baltibrew has been cordially invited to attend a number of different events to celebrate. You can join member Kevin Berry down at Maryland Homebrew for the festivities put on by that establishment AND a number of different clubs in the South, or you can join some of us — possibly Ryan B, if the wife lets him play hooky from moving duties — at the Thirsty Brewer for Wootown's collective Big Brew up North.
UPDATE:

Wootown's Big Brew is on 5/8 — NOT 5/1.

With business out of the way… time to talk aesthetics.

Feast your eyes on the awesome label member Brent Hoffman designed to accompany our recently named Pagoda Porter. It's doubly appropriate that we'll be enjoying the better part of a Corny keg of this beer AT Patterson Park, NEAR the pagoda on brew day. Come out and have a taste.

We are brewing an American Porter Sunday at 2 p.m. at the following address:

14 N east Ave.

Baltimore, MD 21224

Bring some food, bring some beers to share, and I'll post after we buy ingredients how much money you should bring to chip in.

We will be brewing 10 gallons. Five will be bottled, and the remainder will be kegged, so if you show up and pay in, you'll get a proportionate amount of bottled beer to take away once the process is complete. The keg we'll drink on at our next meeting/brew.

This is an extract brew, so it's a great opportunity to learn how to do one the right way if you've never done one before.

BaltiBrew has been invited by its sister/brother club Wootown to attend its annual mead brew event at the home of Wootown members Lloyd and Ruth Ann Snyder in Whitehall, MD. The date is Nov. 8th, and it usually starts halfway early around 9 or 10 am. I'll post further details as to exact times in the comments section.

If you're unfamiliar, mead is fermented honey — watch a viking movie, or read Beowulf or something, sheesh. The Snyders run an apiary — they're beekeepers, so they have plenty of honey available. Between Lloyd and the other members of Wootown — myself included — there should be plenty of knowledge about beer, mead, and brewing in general to go around. Some folks bring equipment to brew as well as make mead — me included — so it's not a honey-only affair. Lloyd and Ruth Ann's property is gorgeous, and — assuming the weather cooperates — it's a great fall outing.

These events follow potluck rules, so bring something to share. The BaltiBrew contingent is likely to be the only vegetarian/vegan populated group, so make sure you bring something of that type if you've got such restrictions.

If you want to take home a carboy of mead, you'll need to bring some money. I'll also post further details as to exact amounts in the comments as I find out, but it's usually around $30.

Hope to see many of you there.

Mark your calendars for Sunday October 25th for BaltiBrew's Inaugural Brew.  We are still trying to decide on the type of beer we will be working on so please feel free to add your input in the comments if you have any strong leanings.

Keep your eyes here for more details as they are finalized.  Hope you can make it.