[THC] Home brewing for Rewind article

[steve kimble]

THC and everybody else:

I'm a new graduate student here at Purdue, and just this last weekend did my
first batch of all-grain brewing, an oatmeal stout that sure looks healthy
(in the high-calorie sort of way). However, I haven't even had the time to
attend a THC meeting and only know about it thanks to Dr. Swihart. I just
moved here from Alabama where it is actually illegal to homebrew, though
I've been doing it for about six years. If nobody else is brewing anytime
soon, my brewing this coming weekend could be fodder for photographs, but I
can't answer the reporter's questions about THC, only brewing and maybe
Alabama's arcane alcohol laws.

Thanks,
Steve


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Linda Swihart <swihart at purdue.edu> wrote:

> John Terhune wrote:
> > Hello Linda,
> >
> > My name is John Terhune. I am a photographer at the Journal & Courier.
> > I was working on ideas for our weekly picture page called Rewind when
> > I decided to do a Google search on home brewers and clubs. That is how
> > I found your email address. I would like to put together a short story
> > along with photos and audio of somebody local making their own beer or
> > ale. If you know of someone that might make a good subject please
> > message me back or give me a call (586-4974). Call anyhow and I can be
> > more specific than an email allows. Thanks and I hope to hear from you
> > soon.
> >
> > John Terhune
> > Journal & Courier
>
>
> Hey Club -- this came just a little while ago from a J&C photographer,
> and so I phoned him.  It sounds like a great way to get some nice
> coverage for the club.  The Exponent did a photo spread and article
> about us, about five years ago, and it's probably time to get in the
> news again don't ya think?.
>
> The Rewind feature is an every-Tuesday thing, and John wants to have it
> in the paper on Tuesday Sep 23, that's a week and a half away about, and
> he says it would be better if he could get the photos by early this
> week.  (As you can see above he didn't even know about us in spite of
> the fact that we've been right here for almost 30 years, but we keep a
> low profile.  He has very fond memories of doing some photo shoots of a
> Colorado club in the 90s, and wayyyyyy back in the mid-eighties in
> Bloomington he apparently photographed the -- much younger -- St.
> Gambrinus Benevolence Society and hung out a little at their meeting,
> and was happily impressed by the camaraderie and friendliness he met
> with there.)
>
> I was thinking of brewing some weeknight coming up next week since my
> weekends are fairly shot.  Anybody brewing this coming weekend?  I will
> be away but this doesn't need me to be there; it just needs John and
> somebody brewing!  If nobody else is brewing soon I'll set something up,
> and it would be best if other people would come over to be on camera and
> do the little sound bite interviews that they add to the "slide"
> presentation they put on the website.  It won't work at all if I'm the
> only person at the brew day.
>
> Brewers -- let me know your availability and interest.  This is too good
> a chance for a little tasteful publicity to not jump on.  I haven't seen
> every "Rewind" (the paper J&C) or "Sound slides" (J&C website) they've
> done, but the ones I have seen have been remarkably charming.
>
> Linda
>
> PS Lloyd it would be cool to use the Blichmann tower set up but of
> course you'd have to be setting it up since I don't know how, and John
> it would be cool to have the real Blichmann actually be here.  You are
> one of our pride and joy boast-about-able local yokels!
>
>
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-- 
Steve Kimble
Master's Candidate, Department of Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
sjkimble at uab.edu
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