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Home Brew Club Plan

The AHA Big Brew Day is coming up on May 3 and Mike and I are going to use the occasion to start our homebrew club.

I think we posted something about this notion a while ago.  Well, it’s time we made some ideas turn into things.

We have at least a couple of other guys who want to join up.  I think there was a guy on Twitter who wanted us to contact him to let him know once we got our stuff together.  Finally I can tweet that guy with a plan.

With this club, we will probably need a catchy name or at least something unique.  Heck, there’s at least a few different brew dudes on the internet.  You’d think we’d be able to come up with something that was our own.

(I think we were first but who’s keeping score?)

There are some things that we will have to do make it a legitimate club.  We’ll probably needs a separate site to keep the official home brew club stuff in its own place, although the insider stuff will probably remain here on this blog.

We’ll have to set regular meeting times and dates to keep it going.  The worst thing that could happen is to have this one event, clink glasses, go home, and never see each other again.  Certainly, the second meeting may be more important than the first, just to prove that the first one wasn’t some fluke.

I am looking forward to sharing ideas with people.  Experiments may be easier to run and better for reporting results when you have more points of data (more people to do the experiment).

We may need to rent a hall or some space to meet.  Once we get rolling, it may be harder to keep having the meetings at somebody’s house.

Outside of that, since not everybody who reads this blog lives near us, I wonder if other clubs have remote members in which the people play along by sending beers to the main location and we converse through Google Hangouts or other free video conferencing services.  I don’t know if anyone would be interested in that, but if you would like to be a remote member of the club – let us know.  You are definitely invited.

So that’s it – that’s the home brew club plan.  We’re going to kick it off on May 3 and we’ll report in this space about it but probably on our social media accounts on the day it happens.

Thanks for reading and brew on.

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8 Comments

  1. I may have been that guy on Twitter; if not, I’m interested. I’m down in Quincy but have beer, will travel.

  2. Where are you guys located? I’m up in Pepperell, and I’m looking for something a little closer to home.
    AO

  3. Hi Vinny – I think you are the guy and I’ll send you the details.

    Aaron – we’re in Chelmsford so we’re close-ish.

  4. Count me in. Can we be the brew hombres though?

  5. graham broderick

    I’m in Sydney count me in.if that’s ok.

  6. Yes – you’re both in. We’ll keep working on the name though.

  7. Brewmegos? Brewcha-cho’s

    Chelmsford isn’t too far, I might actually be able to make it out sometimes. I don’t get out much, mostly due to time constraints of having a young family, but I’d appreciate an opportunity to participate in a club focused on learning and sharing information.

  8. I just saw an email about The Brew Network picking up over 30 ribbons so far in the NHC first round. Let’s hope Los hombres De brew have the same problem.

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