[COHO] wow

[Tim Howe]

I'm extremely impressed with how awesome Sunday's brew was.

I just want to say a huge thank you to Gary Wirt.  He provided a great location, great food, a ton of water, a lot of time and effort, and a great deal of patience to all of us.  On top of the beer we left behind for him to babysit, we probably also left him with a bit of a clean up job.  I, for one, am very grateful.

Also, I want to thank Brett and Evan for arranging supplies and who knows how much planning and effort for this brew (and so many others).  These guys are a force of nature and I don't think any of us would be having as much fun without them.

I need to personally thank Geoff and Brian Marlowe for sharing their burners and sparge water with me.  I still can't believe I forgot my burner...  That was only one example of the teamwork that made Sunday great (the sharing, not the forgetting).

If any help is needed to continue caring for this batch of beer or dealing with the barrel, call on me.

For those who weren't there we had at least seven brews going at once.  Please let me know if I am forgetting anyone: we had Geoff Marlowe, Brian Marlowe, Erin Marlowe, Jerry Oldridge, Tom Gilles, Bill Herrick, Ryan Gibson, Jason Quade, Tom Barrett, and me all brewing on our systems at the same time.  Evan and Brett had done a batch of the same the day before in order to figure out what the rest of us needed to do.  We also had help from Kristen, Dylan, Tom Brohamer, and of course Gary Wirt.  There were also some folks there who I (unfortunately) don't really know yet, but someone made some fish on cedar planks that was excellent.

The Marlowes also took charge of the second runnings batch -- it can't miss.

OK, thanks guys.  I'm done now =]

--TimH