Prison City Brewers

Jackson Michigan's Homebrew Club

Prison City Brewers

"We Brew to Escape"

Prison City Brewers meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month beginning at 7:30 p.m.  Drop a note to pcb (at) corkncap.com  or phone Jack at Cork 'n Cap (517-784-0687) for more information. 

Upcoming Prison City Brewers Meeting Schedule:

Next Meeting, Tuesday September 14th 2010 7:30PM

At the home of Travis Moore

Style of the night is WINE!  If you are a home brewer, you have probably dabbled in wine making.  Bring your wares.  If you don't have any, beer won't be turned away... :-)

Please consider bringing a sample or two of your own brewing if you have it, or something commercially produced if you don't.   Adhering to style is suggested but certainly not mandatory.  Anything "interesting" will be enthusiastically received.  Also bring  your own glass and some munchies to soak up the beer. Feel free to give and accept constructive criticism on beers you’re sampling. Knowing what you did right and wrong is all part of making better beer. Please observe good judgment when imbibing and don’t drive while intoxicated.  



Our monthly email is sent to a list that has been accumulated by Phil and Jack.  It is a superset of the list contained in the HBD mailserv.  This mailserv allows each member to post mailings to the group on the list.  It's a good place to easily communicate with the rest of the club for things like equipment for sale, ad-hoc brewing sessions or brewery visits, etc.  If you are on that list, you should have received some of Phil's messages yesterday. If you are a member of the list, it is easy to send to by simply emailing your message to prisoncity (at) hbd.org. This list is somewhat "self maintaing", and is independent of the list used to send this monthly newsletter.   If you would like to be added (or removed) from the listserv list, you can do so by visiting http://hbd.org/mailman/listinfo/prisoncity  


We are still looking for volunteers to host upcoming meetings for the year.



Styles of the month for 2010:
January 12th– Barleywine, Winter Warmer, Strong Ales at the Rerucha's
February 9th - Stouts and Porters at the Chilson's
March 9th – Wheat, Wit and Weizens at Phil Wilcox's
April 13th- English Milds and Browns at Cork 'n Cap
May 1st– SATURDAY Big Brew 2010 at Cork 'n Cap
May 11th– Lagers, Kolsch and Hybrids at Matt Rohlfs'
June 8th- Pale Ale, IPA at Jim Hegedus'
July 13th– Ambers, Reds, Alts and Scottish Ales At Cork 'n Cap
August 14th SATURDAY– Our Annual "Meading" Cysers, Pyments, Fruit Beers, and Meads at the home of the O'Connor's
September 14th – Wine! at the home of Travis Moore
October 12th – Oktoberfest Beers
November 6th – SATURDAY National Teach a Friend To Brew Day At Cork 'n Cap
November 9th – Belgian/French Ales, Lambics and funky stuff
December 4th SATURDAY – Annual Cider Meeting - Ciders, Perrys, Spiced Ales, Xmas Ales

Club History

 This clubs history clearly starts at one place, the Jackson Brewing Company. Matt Allyn, the head brewer, had been discussing forming a homebrew club with every Tom, Doris, and Homebrewer who came into the pub since opening. Many people were excited by this, but it wasn't until he introduced Phil Wilcox to Dave Dahl that things started to happen. Dave was recently retired, Phil was a Graphics Designer--Time had met up with resources and created opportunity. Flyers were printed, mailing lists gathered, letters were sent and on May 6th, 1997 a group of 14 homebrewers gathered at the Jackson Brewing Company and held an organizational meeting. At the July meeting informal elections were held. Dave Dahl was elected President. Blair Bearinger was elected Vice-President. Phil Wilcox was elected Secretary/Treasurer.

By the June meeting we had kicked around enough ideas for a name that it was time for a vote. Proprietors of Unconstitutional Breweries (PUB), Jack Town Brewers, FORD II - Jackson Plant, and J.A.C.K.S.O.N. -- Jackson Association of Crazy Krauseners Sampling Odoriferous Nectars were among the names voted on. Despite those of us who didn't wish to advertise the fact that the worlds largest walled prison was 4 miles from the pub, The Prison City Brewers was the name voted in by the 20 people gathered there that night.

Oktoberfest at the pub was our first event. We planned to do demonstration brews outside the tent to boost awareness of the club and help publicize the craft of homebrewing. 35 gallons of homebrew were brewed over 4 days. The Scotch Ale was deemed sale-able and was sold on hand pump during Christmas. The Pumpkin Ale was even better but Harry and Phil weren't giving any of it up! Nut Brown Ale and a Pilsner Lager were the other beers brewed. It was a good event and those few who participated had a great time. All kinds of people had all kinds of questions about what we were doing. My personal favorite was, and I do quote, "Is it hot when you boil it?" More participation for next year is a must. Some how I don't think that will be a problem!

 

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