Beer Brew Girls officially has it’s own website now at Beer Brew Girls .com. For a while there, I was posting all of our beer brew stuff here under my personal website blog. Since it is a big interest of mine, it was appropriate to put it here until I found the time to give Beer Brew Girls its own place. I found the time and Beer Brew Girls .com is officially up and running. The best part is the Beer Brew Girls website is built on the WordPress platform!

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For the latest in Beer Brew Girls news, beer batches, homebrew tips, beer events and more, stay tuned to Beer Brew Girls.com!

Beer Brew Girls "Tastings and Networking" Party

Beer  Brew Girls are at it again! We’re having a “Tastings and Networking” party on Saturday, April 10, 2010 to show off tastings of some of our home brews and celebrate April birthdays!  If all of our current beer projects go as planned, we should have 7 – 8 different beers to sample. Everything from a 5% Raspberry Saison named “Fancy Lady” to a ? % Dry Hopped American Pale Ale which will be named “The Lives of the Monster Dogs” which is the band planning to play at this party!

Since the home brew is limited, this is an exclusive event by invitation only. We hope to have a great turnout and look forward to getting everyone’s opinion on our beers!

Cheers!

PS. I designed this event flyer. Contact me to design your next event flyer!

And stay tuned, we’ll post pictures from this event!

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Beer Brew Girls Homebrew Contest Finalist Winners

So we, the Beer Brew Girls entered our very first beer competition and we made it into the final round out of 115 beers! Not bad for our first competition! Although, we didn’t win in the top 5 positions, we are proud of our accomplishment and have the motivation to press on, make more beer to win in the future! After all, we are still somewhat newbies at it so we obviously have some things to learn but we are determined to do so!

Here are the winners of the Beermuda Triangle Homebrew contest: 1st place – Hamp Covington with Eyes of the World (Double IPA); 2nd place Josh Fallen with Heinous Belgian Saison; 3rd place Richard Roper; 4th place Bill Houey with Molly Dolly Indian Brown; 5th place Joshua Humphries.

Until the next beer contest…happy beer brewing, drinking and cheers!

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Beer Brew Girls Beermuda Triangle Homebrew Contest Entry

That’s right folks. We, the Beer Brew Girls, have entered into our first beer homebrew competition. We figured why not? The BEERmuda Triangle Homebrew contest seemed to be a partnership between Hop City Beer, 5 Seasons Brewery Westside and Octane Coffee in Westside Atlanta, Georgia.  The entry was completely free (minus the beer we have to provide) and the winning beer will have their beer made, served and sold at 5 Seasons Brewery . Sweet!

So we decided since we really didn’t have anything to lose and possibly a really neat moment and honor to gain, we entered 3 different beers we had available. Since 3 beers were the maximum we could enter, we chose: batch # 9 – Black Bean Stout, batch # 10 – Belgian Pale Ale and batch # 8 – Raspberry Saison. All of these beers were started with extract kits but we altered the recipe in some way to make it our own. That’s why we chose to enter these particular ones.

We would LOVE to win the contest. Even the staff members who accepted our entries were intrigued by the beer names and possible flavors. The contest entry deadline was yesterday, January 30, 2010. The judging takes place this next week of February 1st. Keep your fingers crossed for us! May our beer win!

Check out where we placed in our first beer brew girls home brew competition results!

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Yesterday, Saturday, January 16, 2010, was the first Beer Brew Girls Brew Saturday party of this new year! And we had a blast!! We had approximately 10 people come through our doors to get educated on beer home brewing and to sample some of our peronal homebrews we had available. All I know is, the beer started flowing, the  got beer ? hats came out and the fun times began.
We had a variety of beer home brews for sampling. Most people really digged batch # 10, Belgian Pale Ale at approximately 5%. We also had batch # 8, Raspberry Saison which some people did try and liked. This is more of a fruity tasting beer which was not everyone’s preference. Kathe Kingston, Head Brewer, and Kim Wolfe, Brewer Assistant, had batch # 9, Black Bean Stout, which most people did not try because it was a stout beer. (For the stout lovers, Black Bean Stout is a nicely carbonated stout that was brewed with chocolate and coffee. The coffee dominates the flavor but the chocolate adds to the texture and consistency of the beer.) Towards the evening, batch # 7, Fallen Angel at 8% came out and this was probably considered to be a favorite of the evening. Only 1 Three Nipple Tripel (TNT) came out for the evening which is batch # 6 and is not quite ready yet because it’s around 10.5%. According to our source, the person who consumed the TNT, ended up praying to the toilet and taking a 15 minute nap on the bathroom floor. LOL!

Overall, it was a lot of fun and we thank everyone who came out yesterday! Stay tuned for the next Brew Saturday date!!

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Beer Brew Girls Homebrew All Grain Setup

The Beer Brew Girls have officially gone to the next level of homebrewing with a new all-grain mash tun and brew stand setup. The Master Brewer for the Beer Brew Girls built this contraption herself from some research and general knowledge of how to build things. And, Kim Wolfe, the Assistant Brewer, took this picture

On New Year’s Eve day, we brewed our first all-grain beer batch with the new homemade mash tun and brew stand.  We brewed a Extra Pale Ale for Dan, the man, our good friend, neighbor, dog sitter and more. Although a few adjustments had to be made to the valves, the new equipment worked great for our first all-grain homebrew! Overall, we are now successfully making beer from scratch instead of from extract kits.

Cheers!

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The Beer Brew Girls LOVE the Brick Store Pub which is a Decatur, Georgia favorite. We are not the only ones that love this place though. Recently there has been a book released about this pub called “Love at the Pub”. Here’s a video that talks a little about Decatur, The Brick Store Pub, and the latest book written about it.

After this video, stop by the Brick Store Pub and explore your taste in all different beers including belgian beers at the belgian bar, upstairs and to the left!

Beer Brew Girls Raspberry Saison Bottled

Yesterday, Sunday 11/8/09, was a very successful homebrew day. We didn’t actually brew anything on this day. We had 3 different beers that either needed to be bottled or moved to a secondary fermentation.

First, we bottled “Fallen Angel”. Fallen Angel is a recommended recipe from the Radical Brewing book by Randy Mosher. We believe it is a Duvel imitator. The color is very similar and the alcohol percentage is dead on at 8%. Since Duvel is one of my FAVORITE beers, I am looking forward to this one.

Secondly, we took the Chocolate Stout from it’s first fermentation carboy and put it on a secondary fermentation with coffee beans. The coffee beans were slightly crushed and placed in the bottom of glass carboy. Then we poured the chocolate stout on top of beans. Yum. This beer will be called “Chocolate Mocha Stout”.  I believe Kathe took a recommended recipe for a chocolate stout out of one of our books. Then she made it her own by adding in additional chocolate and coffee. I have been on a stout kick lately with the cold weather. I am REALLY looking forward to this one too. Ahoy!

Lastly (but not leastly), we bottled our successful second attempt of the Raspberry Saison to be named “Fancy Lady”. The first attempt grew mold. We are proud to say this batch didn’t. Since we put raspberries in the carboy of the secondary  fermentation, this particular beer may be a little chunky in places. We had a hard time siphoning out all of the liquid without getting any of the yeast and raspberry chunks. Since we are planning to have this served with REAL raspberries, we are hoping the chunks and the possible cloudiness won’t be a distraction. We will see. The thought of serving this with real raspberries just tickles my beer fancy!

What tickles your beer fancy? Tell me in the comments below!

Wahoo | Decatur Beer Festival 2009 Ticket

Update: Monday, September 20, 2010

TICKETS GO ON SALE TODAY AT NOON!

Purchase Tickets today if you want to go! Click here for more information on the Decatur Beer Festival.

The date for the 2010 Beer Festival is NOW OFFICIAL. The 2010 Decatur Beer Festival will be on Saturday, October 16, 2010 from noon – 5 pm. The tickets for 2010 are stated to go on sale sometime in September 2010. Last year, they went on sale in August 2009. So mark your calendars now to check here for an actual release date closer to September. They only release 4,000 tickets and they go fast every year. For 2009, they sold out in 12 days however, some tickets were held back and released in beginning of October. It has been clearly stated in articles that Decatur will not be holding back any tickets for 2010.

I missed out in 2008 because I did not  stay on this date. I ordered tickets for the 2009 festival on the day tickets went on sale and enjoyed myself thoroughly. So I can’t stress enough, mark your calendars now if you have any desire to go the Decatur Beer Festival 2010.

To read more on the Decatur Beer Festival, view my previous posts on the Decatur Beer Festival:

2009 Decatur Beer Festival Review

2009 Decatur Beer Festival Officially Sold Out

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Well, pictures always tell stories and judging by these above, you should be able to tell we had a REALLY good time at the Decatur Beer Festival 2009. The beer selection was tremendous and we actually discovered new beers that we liked and didn’t like!

The weather was not the greatest. When we arrived around 11:30 am to get into a line, it was probably not even 40 degrees and windy. The drizzling probably started about 11:40 am and kept drizzling until about an hour or 2 before the end of the festival.

But at least WE HAD BEER! And that we did have. 73 different vendors with at least 100 different beers if not more! Abita Brewing Company was a popular vendor since they were giving out FREE koozies. Everyone was so cold and holding a cold beer made us even colder. I know Abita featured Jockamo and I believe they also featured Turbo Dog? Guess I should’ve have written these down on my list. But it is was REALLY COLD! My 2 favorites for the day were: Highland Brewing Company with their Mocha Stout and Left hand Brewing Company Imperial Stout. I was obviously feeling the weather and enjoying the darker flavors on this day. Highland Brewing Company had the best setup as they had a real wooden portable bar with labeled spouts for each beer. (I forgot that picture too but remember I WAS drinking….) The space within the Decatur Square was plenty big for this festival to hold the 4000 people and still give you plenty of space.

Decatur Beer Festival 2009 Beer List

So here are some new ones we discovered.

• Tommyknocker Brewing Company – Jack Whacker Wheat Ale.
  • From Idaho Springs, CO
  • Cute name and light, zesty lemon taste at 4.7% alcohol.
  • Good!
  • I always thought they were just good for lagers. Apparently I was wrong!
• Southampton Brewing Company – Southampton Double White
  • From Southampton, NY
  • Refreshing light as a witbier
  • But a tad bit stronger taste at 6.6% alcohol
  • Very good! Would like to have this again….
• Moon River Brewing Company – Wit Beer
  • Savannah, GA
  • Too much corriander!
  • Light in color at 4.8% alcohol
  • We did appreciate that a Female is the head brewer of this Brewery. Wahoo!
  • My group did not like
  • Interested in your opinion about this beer!

This beer festival was well worth the wait! Mark your calendars now to check in June or July of 2010 for tickets issue date. For 2009, they went on sale Monday, August 24, 2009 and sold out in 12 days. You’ll want to order them quickly once they go on sale if you are interested in attending this festival!

• Did you attend this festival?
• What was your favorite beer on this day?
• What new beers did you discover?

Share with me in the comments section!

Click here for the Decatur Beer Festival 2009 Beer List!

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