Hot Springs Home Brewers

Club Brew Coming for March

celticozarkian — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:41:16 +0000

The Hot Springs Home Brewers will be doing a club brew at our next Meeting, March 4, 2012, at noon. and Britt Technology Services. We are planning a large brew for the summer. So, come on out to this meeting, as it will be a good one to see how people brew beer. We love visitors.

Brit Technology Consultants

600 Main Street Suite R

Hot Springs, AR 71913

501-781-5383

Email us at contactus@hotspringshomebrewers.com for more information.

December Meeting Brew In A Big Success

celticozarkian — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:06:42 +0000

We had a good meeting yesterday of the Hot Springs Home Brewers. We did a Belgian Witbier and a batch of cranberry cider. Russ brought a bottle of his first batch of cranberry cider, as well as his new hefeweizen. Bill and Ray also had new beers ready to try (Scottish 60 Shilling, Pale Mild Ale, Carabou Slobber Brown Ale, and a new creme ale just in the bottle.

We also had some new guests this week, and we hope that they will join us again (Aaron and John).

The website for the club is coming along nicely, and you can view it at http://hotspringshomebrewers.com. Our discussion forum is at http://www.homebrewedhs.com/forums/ If you would like to be able to add content for the club, let me know, so we can get you set up with an account. WordPress is an easy format to learn, much like posting on Facebook.

We have also connected a Twitter and Facebook Fan Page for the club, to give everyone a chance to keep up with events over the next year. You can find us on line by looking up the Hot Springs Home Brewers on either of those social media sites.

Our next meeting will be on January 8, 2012, at 3p. More information to come.

December Meeting and Brew In

celticozarkian — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:57:14 +0000

The December meeting of the Hot Springs Home Brewers will take place on Sunday December 11, 2011, from 11:30 a.m. until around 5:30 p.m. As part of the December meeting, we will be brewing a Belgian Wit beer. Members are invited to bring their own equipment and brew also. Of course, there will be samples to try of all kinds.

We will be meeting at:

Britt Technology Consulting, Inc.

600 Main St.

Suite R

Hot Springs, AR

For more information, please contact Ray Province at celticozarksolutions@gmail.com or call at 417-569-9742.

See you there.

September Meeting for the Hot Springs Home Brewers

celticozarkian — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:39:07 +0000

The Hot Springs Home Brewers decided to do a club brew for the meeting for the month of September. The club decided to do a nice Pumpkin Spice Ale for the upcoming holiday season. We used the Northern Brewer all grain kit for the basis of the brew. However, we felt that the spices were off in the kit, so we added a fair bit of cinnamon to the recipe. The basic kit from our friends at Northern Brewer have the spices heavy with nutmeg and ginger, and allspice.

It was a 10 gallon batch. We also had new visitors to the event, who came to learn about the whole process of brewing beer. Here are some of the pics from the event, the rest can be viewed in our photo gallery.

In Search of the Perfect Red Irish Ale

celticozarkian — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:22:38 +0000

The Hot Springs Home Brewers recently got together at the home of Bill Furnas with a real mission in mind: we were in search of the perfect Red Irish Ale. The quest started with a great all grain kit from Northern Brewer. Then with a group of friends to share homebrew, and help with the mash and boil, we were well on our way.

We used Bill’s All Grain System to brew. It is designed around two 10 gallon Igloo coolers. Bill assembled the pieces of the system himself. It was set up on a table. the large upside down cooking pot adds height to the Hot Liquor Tank, so it can gravity feed into the Mash Tun. It was sitting on a chair. In the floor was his brew pot, which was made from an old beer keg. During Sparging, Bill is able to control the whole system flow from HLT, to Mash Tun, for brew pot with the weldless ball valves attached to each cooler.

The Mash was great. With the cooler system, we were able to hold the correct tempurature of the strike water.

A little better view of the whole system. If you would like to know more about the all grain cooler system used here, just reach out to us at contactus@hotspringshomebrewers.com. We’ll help you set one up, give you advise on buying one pre assembled, and help you know who has the best prices in Arkansas on the items needed.

Ray Province

Hot Springs Home Brewers.

August Club Meeting

celticozarkian — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:58:10 +0000

We officially started the Hot Springs Home Brewers with our first club meeting at the home of Justin Chastant. It was a hot Sunday afternoon, but that did not stop us from getting together in the yard, under the power of a big fan, and enjoying the home brewed beer and mead of the members. Mead was a kind of unofficial theme for the first meeting. We also talked about the water supply in the Hot Springs area, and how that supply is very good for brewing beer.

Justin and Briana brought mead, as well as Russell Brit and Ray Province. Some of the beers there that day were an Irish Red Ale, a lemon grass ale, Carabou Slobber Brown Ale, and many others.