Govannon Brew Day

What: A Pagan-friendly Learn to Brew Event

When: Saturday, August 25th, 2012; 09:00-14:00

Where: Blackberry Circle Covenstead, Conroe, TX

How Much: $15 to cover consumables (plus your costs below)

More Info:

If you want to learn how to make beer, I will brew beer with your help, teaching as we go along.

I will give you a shopping list of what you must bring, and tell you where you can get it. You will end up taking about 1 gallon of fermenting beer home. As we make the beer, I will teach you how to do it, then I’ll teach you what you need to know to judge when your beer is done fermenting and should be bottled, and how to carbonate and bottle.

Two of us will bring our equipment to make the beer (each of us can make up to 5 gallons at a time) and then each of us gets 1 gallon to ferment and bottle at home. One gallon can be fermented in a 1 gallon jar at home fairly easily.

The following tell yosu what to bring and how to get to the location, as well as presenting a little info on our patron God for the brewday, Govannon.

You will have to provide the following:

Necessary ( Cost is about $7.00 plus Ice Chest, Ice and Lunch)

1. A one gallon clean glass jug with a screw-on cap. If you have a larger one, but one that can still fit in the refrigerator, then that is better. If you have a dark bottle, that is better than clear glass. About $3.00.

2. A rubber stopper for the jug, with a hole drilled to accept a fermentation airlock. We can drill the holes at the event if necessary. A #6 stopper (1 1/8″ – 1 1/16″ – with a 3/8″ hole) fits gallon jugs. About $1.50

3. A fermentation airlock. About $1.50

4. An ice chest large enough to hold the gallon jug with at least 3 inches headspace above the top of the jug for the airlock. This is to keep the fermenting beer cold enough to ferment properly (at the event, on the way home and for several weeks at home). Or some other method to keep the jug at or near 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

5. About .75 ounce by weight corn/priming sugar for later carbonation. About $1.00. You can use some other sugar.

6. Your own lunch and drinks and what it takes to stay comfortable outside.

You might also wish to get the following, but this is not necessary for the brewday and you do not need to have it to finish your beer:

7. A second cleaned glass jug for secondary fermentation and/or bottling. About $3.00

8. Bottles, caps and a bottle capper to bottle and carbonate your beer. About $25.00.

9. Glass hydrometer and test column. About $15.00.

Directions:

Blackberry Circle is located at 1200 Foster in Conroe, Texas. We are on Foster Drive between FM 1314 (Conroe Porter road) and South 7th Street, cattycorner to Runyun Elementary School.

1. Coming from I-45 north exit the South Loop 336/Frazier exit.

2. Go east (right if coming from Houston, left if heading towards Houston) for 2.0 miles until you come to the second stop light (FM 1314/Conroe Porter Rd.)

3. Turn left a the stop light onto FM 1314 and drive 0.6 miles to the first stop light which is Foster Drive. A large cemetery and Mims Baptist Church is to the right.

4. Turn left on Foster Drive and drive 0.3 miles and we are on the left, first house past the bridge.

The house sits away from the road so you may drive right past. We have a circular driveway and if you get to the school you have gone too far. Go behind the house to get to the brewing area.

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