Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings.
The May meeting will be hosted by Steve Krebs, on Friday, May 9, starting at 7:30.
Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features extract beers, the style of the month.
Celebrate National Homebrew day with Big Brew at the Ypsilanti Brewing Co!
Big Brew is a world-wide event celebrating National Homebrew Day by brewing and giving brewing demonstrations. This is your chance to observe and participate in the brewing of beer.
Where: Ypsilanti Brewing Co., 4 W. Forest Ave, Ypsilanti, MI 48198
When: Saturday May 3, 2008, 9AM
What: Brewing demonstrations all day, potluck about 5PM
Who: Mike O’Brien 734-637-2532
Contact: obrien@ypsilantibrewing.com
I’ve uploaded the group photo that Susan Rankert took at the April, 2008 meeting. It’s in the “Group Photos” album on the “AABG Photo Albums” page, or you can just click on the thumbnail below:
Jeff writes: Spotted on TechTalk last week - a reference to a very comprehensive article on carbonation - mostly for carbonated water, but lots of good information. The author went to a lot of trouble to put it together.
Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings.
The April meeting will be hosted by Alex and Claudia Pettit on Friday, March 14, starting at 7:30.
Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features “Light Hybrid Beers”, the style of the month.
AABG is planning to participate in both Club Night and the Hospitality Suite at the National Homebrew Conference. Crispy has confirmed a reservation for Club Night as well as the Hospitality Suite for a shift (we won’t know the actual time slot until closer to the event) for the Ann Arbor Brewers Guild, as well as the F.O.R.D. club.
Here is a letter from the organizers about both events. Read the rest of this entry »
Please note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings.
The March meeting will be hosted by Mike O’Brien at the Ypsilanti Brewing Co. shop, on Friday, March 14, starting at 7:30.
Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features Porter, the style of the month.
Steve Darnell writes:
Over the weekend my son and I put together a motorized
malt mill. I’d been planning it since Jim Suchy gave me
a washing machine motor just before he left. The parts we
purchased cost less than $25 and it took about four hours
to make, with Ben’s help.
The motor is 1,729 rpms and we adjusted it with two sheaves
at 1.5″ and 8″ down to 324 rpm and attached it to my Schmidling
mill. It grinds a pound of grain in 6 seconds.
Im looking forward to brewing this week.
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Dan Jeska replied with a couple of photos: Steve, that looks very similar to the mill I have. I used an 1800 rpm
utility motor reduced down via the sheaves you mentioned to around 300
rpm. I have never heard of those wheels or pulleys referred to as
“sheaves”. You will be now be able to use your arm strength for
lifting fermenters instead of crushing grain!
The attached photos show my old creaky grain mill, as well as the
“Mother of All Grain Mills” built by my friend Steve Higdon.
Note: you must be at least 21 years old to attend AABG meetings.
The February brewers’ guild meeting will be held on February 8 at the home of Matt and René Greff. Read more about the meeting online, including an interactive map to the location, or download the newsletter, which contains information about the meeting and features the Saison and Biere de Garde beer styles.
We have the AABG logo in a variety of formats. Members may download and use these logos to label beers, make name tags, meeting signs, and similar uses.
Largish B&W logo (595 x 595) |
B&W AABG logo in Microsoft word (appx 220×200) |
AABG Banner PDF |
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Color logo (large: 860×860) |
Color logo (medium:180×180) |
Color logo (small) |
Adobe Illustrator logo |