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The line was nearly down the block for Brew on 9.
Homebrews provided the starter fuel as 17 businesses drew a crowd to the Ninth Square for an evening of taste tests.
Tasting of Benediktiner, a Bavarian-style lager, at Neville Wisdom’s shop.
The annual spring beer crawl known as Beer on 9, held Friday evening, offered people a chance to take a miniature beer mug and get it half filled with different kinds of brew.
It was also an opportunity for home brewing aficionados like Andy Orefice, who by day can be found working as a program coordinator for community and government relations at Yale-New Haven Hospital. By night, he can be found cooking up a batch of home-brewed beer with John O’Rourke. The crawl is one of several events where they get to show off their stuff.
O’Rourke and Orefice are part of Brew Haven, a community of homebrewers from in and around the Elm City. Brew Haven members have participated in the crawl since its inception in 2013. The men were serving up an Offbeat White IPA and a Holy Molé Porter made with chilis that O’Rourke grew and smoked himself.
The men of Steiny’s Brewing.
Just a table over, the men of Steiny’s Brewing out of Wallingford, were pairing their Oatmeal IPA and a Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter with homemade cookies much like one might pair wine and cheese. The brewers said the cookies helped compliment and bring out the various notes of their beer.
We had a great time! Even in that COLD Rain! Those home brewers were quite impressive!