Recent Forum Posts

Hop buying

If you are interested in buying hops, check out our poll:

Each “OK” (checkbox) indicates the desire to buy one pound of the indicated hops. The labels at the top tell the kind of hops, the size of box they come in, and the number of boxes available. You’re not likely to get hops [...]

Mead competition — AABG can rule!

Kurt saw this competition, www.meadfreeordie.com. Winning club gets 55 gallons of honey, that’s about $1000 of honey!

With the depth of AABG, this could be interesting. Road trip to NH to pick up the barrel?

Update: Despite sending 21 entries, we did not win. The locals did. Ah, well.

Subject: Mead Free or Die

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Original Gravity Brewery outing

A club outing to the Original Gravity Brewery in Milan has been proposed for either Nov 1 or Nov 8. Please vote for the time(s) you would prefer: Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

Which meeting maps do you use?

Recently, Steve Darnell, our stalwart newsletter editor, asked me whether he should continue to create maps for the web site, or whether we should just use the Google map. Clearly, there’s some work involved in making the map that is published in the newsletter, and in a slightly different form, online.

I didn’t know how [...]

Michigan State Fair Homebrew Competition

The Michigan State Fair Homebrew Competition is coming up quickly. Details can be found on the MSFHBC website.

We have been asked to help out by sponsoring a category. We usually give some money in support of the competition, so this would be a way to increase the visibility of that contribution. Sponsorship is $100. [...]