Southern Star Brewing Contest

For those of you in the Houston and surrounding areas, Southern Star Brewing is arguably one of the hottest craft breweries to have sprung up in the last few years. They're celebrating their 2 year anniversary this year, and in addition they're going to have their Pro-Am Homebrew Contest again (similar to how St. Arnold's does their Divine contest). Here's a link to their newsletter.

Of interest is also how they are celebrating National Homebrew Day on May 8th May 1st. Allow me to quote:

Dave invites all home-brewers to come join him in brewing a special batch on the big system. After we are finished, we will split the wort up into home brewer's individual carboys to take home and tweak/ferment as they see fit. NO yeast will be provided at the brewery, so get with your local home brew supply shop and order some yeast. We want everyone to keep records of what they did, and then join us on a Sunday in mid to late August (date to be determined later) to share the fruits of our labor. To guarantee wort for yourself at this event, signup is encouraged (brewery@southernstarbrewing.com). 16 Barrels makes about 100 5-gallon batches. The wort made will be Brown, 1.060 and 30 IBU’s with a fairly neutral hop (probably Saphir or Goldings). Bring your pre-sanitized carboys.

That's pretty freaking sweet!

I'll be brewing a blackberry wheat birthday bier this weekend for yours truly, will be sure to post some pictures.

-- J