Why I Love This Time of Year

Fall is just around the corner. All the kids are heading back to school, the college football season starts tonight, and one of my favorite seasonal beers is on sale.  Dogfish Head runs a small batch of this delicious crack pumpkin laden ale once a year.
While supplies last....

August Club Meeting in McLean

The theme this month was inspired by the recently completed Olympics. Being an ale month, we decided to provide the club with English Ales. The top 3 ales were issue medals.
Gold: Morland Old Speckled Hen
Silver: Sam Smith Organic Best Ale
Bronze: Sam Smith Taddy Porter
4th: Wells Banana Bread Beer
Manuia

Hops Harvest

Here's our first harvest.  Hopefully, we'll be getting some more before the season is over.

Growing Hops

My co-brewer and I started growing hops this year.  We have two Cascade vines growing up his chimney.  They are starting to flower.  We'll harvest soon and brew something with them in a month or two.  Here's a picture of them.