As I’ve mentioned before, we at Iron Hill have strong ties to the homebrew world.  We all started out as homebrewers and we still do whatever we can to support the craft and community.  So when I learned that a group of homebrewers had lost their spot for Big Brew Day I thought “hmmmm, we’ve got a parking lot…”

May 7th is National Homebrew Day.  Every year homebrewers across the country celebrate the legalization of homebrewing on the first Saturday in May by…   Well how else would they celebrate it?  They get together and brew a ton of beer (and drink one or two while they do it)!

This past Saturday the Iron Hill parking lot saw 14 homebrewers (mostly from the newly formed “Barley Legal Homebrewers” club)  brew 16 batches of beer for a total of 135 gallons.

I had a wedding to go to that day so I wasn’t able to join them and make my own batch, but I did have time to help them set up, enjoy a couple of samples and check out the operation.  I was pretty amazed at how much was going on out behind the restaurant.  I was also pretty amazed at how high-tech some of the systems were.  Some of this equipment actually made me jealous!  You can click here or on any one of the pictures to see a short video that gives you an idea of just how much was going on that day.