![]() ![]() It was not typeset until 1988, probably on an early personal computer. They were exuberant testaments to the joys and camaraderie of beer and brewing. Considering the technology, which now seems soooo primitive, the Hopline was quite an accomplishment. It was quite entertaining with crossword puzzles, brew-off recipes, topical jokes and quotes, and social notes. The Hopline was typed by the club president, mimeographed, and mailed to the membership. This began as a series of short articles in the Hopline, the monthly newsletter that began, sporadically, shortly after the club was formed. CCH has a continuous history of educating members about all aspects of beer. Educating brewers in all-grain brewing is part of our Mission Statement. The club uses brew-offs to introduce new brewers to all-grain brewing. Zea Rotisserie and Brewery, Big Easy Beer, and Heiner Brau (now Covington Brew House) have all hosted joint brew-offs. No other club in Louisiana does, nor in the other Gulf states.ĬCH has also partnered with craft breweries to do even larger Brew-Offs with Mystic Krewe of Brew (MKOB), the North Shore club. CCH may be the only club in the country to brew in large cooperative batches. Ten brewers go home with five gallons of wort to ferment and finish. The equipment has been upgraded several times, but the result is still the same. Each guy would take a share home to ferment. Eventually, they tried all-grain brewing.Ĭlub members built equipment large enough to brew fifty gallons at a time. Too bad the name of that beer was lost – Laid Out Lager, perhaps. Rumor has it that the club’s first lagers were aged in the cooler of a funeral home where one of the members worked. Lots of alcohol, but very little flavor,” said Harold. ![]() “The first recipes we had included three pounds of corn sugar per batch. Until then, “we didn’t know hops were supposed to be green.” said John Dauenhauer, 1984 President. “We started buying mail order because his stuff was not the freshest,” generously stated Harold Hochhalter, 1985 CCH President. They bought hops pellets (a delicate light brown color) from Al’s Wine Shop, the homebrew shop on Oleander Street where the club met. The intrepid eight began with Fleischman’s Yeast and Blue Ribbon Malt Extract from the A&P. Eight guys curious about making beer decided to give it a try. The law went into went into effect four months later. On October 14, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill* into law that made home brewing legal and exempt from excise tax, but still subject to state local options. The country’s Bicentennial in 1976 spurred a resurgence of interest in all colonial home crafts including the craft of home brewing. The purpose of the club as stated in the By-Laws of the Corporation: “ Shall be a non-profit, informational organization to promote brewing of beers in the home for personal consumption as an alternative to commercial brews.” After five years of very informal existence, members incorporated CCH with the state of Louisiana in 1983. (American Palate, A Division of the History Press, Charleston, S.C., 2014)Ĭrescent City Homebrewers is the oldest brew club in New Orleans, possibly in the whole Gulf region. New Orleans Beer – A Hoppy History of Big Easy Brewing by Jeremy Labadie & Argyle Wolf-Knapp ![]()
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