National Home Brew Day 2009

Tim Brady — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:20:17 +0000

Winner! 2009 AHA Big Brew Day video contest!

1st Place – Most Viewed Video (8,700 and counting)

1st Place - Spirit of Big Brew

Thank you so much to the Masholes for hosting us and working with us on this project. If you are in western Massachusetts and interested in home brewing – hook up with these folks on their facebook page!

In this episode, my friend Timberly and I check out an AHA National Home Brew Day event with the Masholes, a fun group of home brewers in Massachusetts.

Six home brewers brought their equipment to one house and throughout the day brewed six different beers. Gathering as a group gave these home brewers (and the thousands of others who participated in similar events around the world) an opportunity to explore different techniques and share tricks of their craft. Of course, it also was a great opportunity to share the fruit of the labor, the beer! With the Masholes we found a group of people who were brought together by a common thread, the love of craft beer and the passion for creating it. We’ve said it several times, beer should be fun – and the Masholes have definitely figured out how to have fun while brewing good beer.

If you are in the Western Mass area and would like more information about the Masholes check out their Facebook page. If not, you can get information about home brew groups in your area at the Brewers Association website www.beertown.org Hope you enjoyed meeting the Masholes, we certainly did! We will see you next time on Here for the Beer.

Please Note: As you know, we don’t usually use YouTube, but the AHA is running a contest, for the best and most watched video from National Homebrew Day, so we are throwing our video in. So please, share this with your friends, family and fellow beer enthusiasts. Lets make the Masholes famous! You can see more about the contest on the Big Brew section of the AHA website.

Update – YouTube has banned this video as “Inappropriate” and therefore I suppose we are out of the contest…(Thanks to the AHA for keeping us in!) But we have uploaded it to our regular source, Blip.tv and hope that you enjoy it.

Craft Brewers Conference – Boston, MA

Amy Brady — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:19:22 +0000

In this episode, we head to the Craft Brewers Conference and Trade Show in Boston, Massachusetts. This amazing conference with over 2000 attendees is run by the Brewers Association. Check out this video from the conference that features Trade Show floor. This conference was unlike any other we had ever been to. The most noticeable difference was the amount of great beer available, I mean everywhere! Beer was available throughout the trade show floor and at the many hospitality events throughout the week.

It was great to catch up with some of the friends we have made during our beer journeys and to have opportunity to make so many new ones. The most notable facet of this event was the genuine camaraderie amongst the brewers. They are a community of people willing to share their knowledge and techniques with one another. It was refreshing that they do not see each other as competition, but as colleagues. They share a common goal and that is to produce really good beer.

We hope you enjoy this video and stay tuned for a few more fun episodes from our week in Boston, right here on Here for the Beer.

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