A Malty Classroom
It’s been a long, long time since I “taught” anything, but this weekend, I taught a course on homebrewing.
As part of a program focused on wintertime activities in Vermont (”Cabin Fever University”), a friend hosted the class, and I arrived with a simple recipe, books, and gear. We tasted liquid and dry malt extract, smelled a few varieties of hops, tasted various barley malts, and brewed a batch of moderately hoppy amber ale over the course of Saturday afternoon.
Three people attended, which was enough to offset the cost of the ingredients, and allow the host and I to head out for a drink one of these nights. Pretty decent, overall!
We shall be drinking the beer in a month’s time, at a Pub Cooking course being taught by this event’s host. In the meantime, I hope to knock out a few quick beers myself, to make up for all the ones that went horribly awry last brewing season.
