Home Brewing 100
Alot has been said lately about
multiculturalism and diver
sity at this University.
Some say it segments our society
through highlighting division.
Some say it brings us together
through understanding.
I say maybe they're all missing
the point. What I'm wondering is:
what about beer?
Now I know that alcohol is often
cited as one of the University's
biggest problems. But I'm not talk
ing about abuser-friendly light
lagers sold at everything-must-go
prices Thursday nights downtown.
I'm talking about wholesome beer,
pilsner you can be proud of, some
thing you won't just chug away.
I'm talking, beer buffs, about
home brew. There's lots of diverse
people out there who like beer.
So why can't it bring us together?
On the pilsner planet, the rise of
home brewing and microbrewing
has restored the diverse collection
of literally thousands of varieties
of beer. Recent discoveries reveal
that cultures as diverse as the
Eskimos, the Mongols and the
Sumerians all used to do some
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home brewing. Plus, we all get
along better with a good beer buzz.
My contribution to the diversity
debate and the USG unconvention
al campaign ideas is to unite this
campus, with glasses raised, in a
Home Brewing 100 class. I figure
there should be no harm in one
more general education require
ment this can fall under alcohol
awareness especially one where
you make beer.
It's educational, as well. I never
thought much before about the ori
gins of the beer I drank. Did you
know that there is fermentation
involved? I used to think that
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only go together when we're talk
ing about cheese.
I had a lot to learn. I mean, I've
driven by the Stroh's plant on
Interstate 78 near Allentown, laps
ing into daydreams about the huge
metal tanks and a yard piled with
thousands of kegs, presumably
filled with beer. But this was only
imagination, not knowledge.
Then I got The Best Christmas
Gift Ever, a complete home brew
ing kit.
Sorry to disappoint, however,
home brewing is on a much smaller
scale than giant commercial vats.
My guess is you won't be making
enough beer to swim in, although
perhaps enough for a shallow bath
. .My very first batch of home
brew, an Old English bitter ale
made from a kit called Munton's
Gold, produced 1 1 / 2 cases of 16
ounce bottles. It's not a lake o'
lager, but it's a start.
So to anybody out there who
wrote letters to the editor suggest
ing I had no coolness potential: I
made beer, and this is an automatic
coolness qualification.
"I figure there should be no harm in one more
general education requirement this can fall under
alcohol awareness especially one where you make
beer."
My first batch didn't exactly
prove that home brewing could
unite the University. But I did
share mine with all my housemates
and even some of my friends,
which is more than I do with, say, a
package of hot dog rolls.
And my first foray into fermen
tation is only a microcosm of the
caring, sharing, unified, tipsy com
munity that could exist among
Home Brewing 100 students.
The class would include a diver
sity section about beers of the
world, but would be focused on
groups working together to brew
batches of beer.
My dream is so beautiful I could
cry. But I won't cry in my beer it
tastes much better uncontaminated.
In fact, one of the most tedious, but
necessary parts of the home brew-
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iversity's problems
mg process is sanitizing every piece
of equipment before you use it.
But the rest is easier and more
fun. Ultra-simplified, it goes like
this (all of the necessary materials
are available at The Granary, 2766
W. College Ave.): You take some
malted barley and hops, and mix it
with some water and yeast in a big
glass tank.
That mixture is called wort,
which sounds bad, but it will be
beer. Then you let the mystical
beer spirits take over also
known as fermentation for a
while and then bottle it. After three
to six weeks, you have beer.
Thanks to added educational ben
efits, the process really is a little
more complicated. The New Com
plete Joy of Home Brewing, a how
to of home brewing by guru Char-
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lie Papazian, has you doing all
kinds of scientific stuff that should
fill some requirement. You mea
sure specific gravity (chemistry);
you arrange siphons (physics) to
get the beer into bottles; you trig
ger fermentation (biology) with
yeast and priming sugar. Then you
drink it (therapy).
In Papazian's words, "Relax.
Don't worry. Have a home brew."
Except on my first try, I had no
home-brew around, so I had to buy
some beer.
There's really only one problem
left with Home Brewing 100. You
have to be 21 to brew and drink.
Other than that, home brewing is
far more legal than, for example,
running moonshine in Hazzard
County. So thankfully, I see a sim
ple solution: make it a senior year
requirement.
But make it a stress-free
pass/fail credit, so we can all unite,
relax, not worry and have a home
brew.
Tom Groff is a senior majoring in
journalism and a Collegian colum
nist.