[Brew-list] Batch One Hundred

[John Masterson]

Brewing for years,
Ninety-nine beers,
And now it has come to this.

Proudly I thundered,
"Batch one hundred!"
A brew session not to be missed.

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An event this propitious,
Calls for methods ambitious,
Something not done in the past.

A really big beer,
Using five-gallon gear,
Now this should be quite a blast.

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First with the yeast,
To prepare for the feast,
We concoct a one gallon starter.

The yeast starts to bubble,
Without any trouble,
For homebrew we thank Jimmy Carter!*

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Twenty-four pounds,
I like how that sounds,
A grain bill beyond common reason.

A syrupy wort,
The color of dirt,
As they say, what the hell, tis the season.

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With time-well spent,
Can I reach twelve percent?
Perhaps, with a right kind of mash.

Two mashtuns of grains,
Well-chosen yeast strains,
If Moose Drool was pot, this is hash!


:)








* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing#Liberalisation:_post_1960