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Learn to Homebrew Day

Everyone has to start somewhere. Saturday is Learn to Homebrew Day. It was established by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) in 1999 to encourage homebrewers to introduce their non-brewer friends and family to the wonderful hobby of homebrewing. Learn to Homebrew Day has since become a worldwide one-day celebration including demonstrations, events, tastings, educational efforts, and contests. Whether you’ve been homebrewing for a while or have never touched hops in your life, there’s an event for you on Saturday.

Events for Learn to Homebrew Day:

Grain to Glass, 1611 Swift St, North Kansas City, 64116, is partnering with Cinder Block Brewery, 110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City, 64116, to help homebrewers with their next brew. Once you brew your wort in the parking lot of Grain to Glass, take it to Cinder Block to pitch it with their Chico yeast. 10am – 4pm. Event details.
Apex Brew Wares, 4380 S Noland Road, Independence, 64055, is hosting a demonstration in their parking lot from 11am until 5pm. They welcome you to bring your own rig so you can join in on brewing. Event details.
KC Nanobrews is also having a homebrew demonstration. From 2pm until 7pm, learn with some of the best homebrewers in Kansas City. Event details.
Not necessarily for Learn to Homebrew Day, but The Pitch is having their annual Crafts & Drafts at the Uptown Shoppes, 3600 Broadway, Kansas City, 64111. Over 25 beer vendors will be in attendance, so you can ask them how they got started with brewing.

If you don’t feel like getting out or brewing yourself this Saturday, celebrate by drinking a beer!

Hey Homebrewers, Free Wort!

Did you miss out on 75th Street Brewery‘s wort giveaway this morning? (We didn’t; check future posts for a Brew Day Session.) Good news for you, Free State Brewery has wort to give away. There’s no contest with this wort, just the satisfaction of making your own beer.

Free State hates to see things go to waste, so they’re offering their unhopped, unboiled, leftover wort from when they brewed their Old Backus Barleywine. They only take the strongest of the wort from their mash to make the barleywine and what’s left still has a lot of sugar in it. That’s what you get! It’s the first time they’ve tried to collect this, so they don’t know what the strength is.

What you need to do to get some is bring a sanitized container and enter the brewery from the west end dock. Kansas charges 20¢ per gallon in taxes so they ask for $1 for each 5 gallons you pick up. There’s no limit on how much you can get right now, but if there’s a huge demand, they may limit it.

Go to Free State Brewery in Lawrence on Thursday, October 2nd, starting at 6pm to get some for yourself.