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Welcome
Welcome to SPARGE homebrew club. We are a group of beer enthusiasts that meet monthly to sample and discuss homebrews and commercial craft beers. We host annual events like Big Brew Day, Learn to Homebrew Day, Family Picnics and a Holiday party. We host quarterly commercial beer samplings into our meetings, where members are encouraged to make a similar style beers for comparison, discussion and feedback. Also new this year are the DIY build nights, where a member that wants to share how to build a piece of brewing equipment gives a hands on demonstration during a monthly meeting.
Next Meeting - February 11th
Bring in your home brews to be sampled and receive feedback from the group.
We will be selecting the Sparge Board/Council by the next meeting. If you are interested in helping Sparge move forward in 2012, please let us know. We would like to have either 5 or 7 council members. Any paid Sparge members interested are eligible to be on the council.
Meeting Location:
289 East Street
Ludlow, MA 01056
NOTE: CLUB MEETINGS IN 2012 WILL BE ON
EVERY SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH @ 7:00PM.
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9-24-2011 Emptying - First Barrel Batch Complete
For those of you (list to follow) that have contributed to the first barrel beer from the club barrel, we are doing the extraction of the first batch on September 24th 2011, between noon and 2:00PM.
Members include:
Dave F 5gal
Bill G 5gal
Mike B 5gal
Allen D 5gal
Matt 5gal
Bernie 5gal
Dave B 5gal
Nick 5gal
Mike D 20gal
If you have conributed to this batch of barrel beer, please be prepared to receive your share (whatever you kicked in minus the Okoberfest portion we are giving to the Museum event) this day at the home of Mike Drez's. We will rack off the barrel to your vessel of choice.
After that the Barrel is moving to the home of Nick Gagnon for further care. We will move it empty, so if your share is not removed that day, someone else may end up with it.
Once the barrel is at Nick's we plan on filling it with water (as trying to empty move and refill would be logisticaly a nightmare)for a week. The following week we plan to have the second batch ready to fill in the barrel. So those who have offered up a batch we will have a recipe ready for this Tuesday. We settled on a porter. More details to follow on the refill...
Questions or comments can be directed to the club at the "info@" address, the forum or reaching out personaly to any of the club members.