Even though it’s still January, it’s not too early to start thinking about the AHA Big Brew the first Saturday in May!

Each year the AHA highlights homebrew recipes for Big Brew. Then hundreds of homebrewers register their Big Brew locations for a communal brew-in to celebrate National Homebrew Day. They invite family and friends, or hang posters and flyers around town to advertise their brewing site. Then on the first Saturday in May everyone congregates at the brewing site early enough to join in a collective toast at noon Central time and get on with the brewing.

More details soon …

happy big brew day everyone! hope to see all you masholes at the brew site today.

The AHA Big Brew Day is right around the corner!

This year’s “official” recipes are:

East India Pale Ale
Must Be the Season of the Wit
Rocket Rod’s Positively Porter

You can check out the recipes at the AHA site here

Same venue as the past couple of years:

118 Princeton Ave. in Feeding Hills – join us if you can! Cheers!

1st meeting of the moan and dove brewers club @ 12:30. you know where. (sorry for the short notice).

check it out! mashole mike klatsky was featured in this article on homebrewing: http://j.mp/dQrJej

Coming soon . . .

Check it out – our very own Mike Klatsky is going to be interviewed tomorrow by a reporter (and photographer) from the Daily Hampshire Gazette in support of a story about home brewers. Mike will be brewing the “Masholes Collaboration Ale” (aka wee heavy) in the company of the Gazette reporter and a photographer! Yay Mike!

RT @sarah_ryder: planning to go to the moan and dove after work today. join me for a beer if you’re in the area.

Here’s the info we got emailed to us about Meadllennium 2011…

Meadllennium 2011 is just around the corner. It will be held on January 29^th in Orlando, FL. Online registration will open late December, and entries will be accepted from January 1 to January 24. Cost is still $6.00. The medals and specially engraved glasses have been ordered.

This is an AHA/BJCP competition, and we will be judging all BJCP mead categories (24 A, B, C), (25 A, B, C) and (26 A, B, C). We also expect to, once again, split category (25 C) and award medals for dry, medium and sweet. We have added a special category this year. All meads that are wood-aged will compete for a special prize.

So, dig those awesome meads out of your closet or cellar, and dust them off. This would also be a good time to bottle those meads you have been bulk-aging, so they will have a time to rest, before you ship them.

Details and drop-off locations will be on the website in a couple of days. Check us out at www.cfhb.org/mead.

more masholes business cards have been ordered. email info@masholes.org if you’d like some.