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On the fire

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Got to have some outdoor fun brewing last night. The Rackers were invited to do a brew at Heritage Hill’s Hops@theHill event.

Me, Max and Dan had two brews going. A rather historical brew over an open fire,, and a modern propane home brew set up.

We had tons of interest in both versions of the brewing. 
Certainly would do this again if they were to ask.

Red Currants

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I beat the birds to them and survived a full on mosquito invasion in order to pick 3 lbs of my red currants.

The last time I managed to get some I added them to some white wine and it really came out nice.
This year I wanna do a beer with them. Not sure on the style yet. It would have to be something light. The flavor of these red ones is really delicate unlike the black variety which can stand up to more things.
I’m not even sure I wanna go the wheat route, the wheat may cover alot of what the currants would be doing.
A Blonde maybe good. Maybe the sourness these will give may get it heading to some sort of Goze?
Have a few things to look at I guess.

Steinfest Challenge

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Took a trip to Milwaukee for the 2019 Germanfest. We had entered into the Steinfest Challenge Homebrew contest. A German styles only contest.
Didn’t win anything but did at least make it to the mini bos. Was our first time entering this event, but we already know we are going to doing it next year already.

Keep your calenders open for next year