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Whatever else it is, the Fox Club is now also a brewery. Haller recently established beer-making operations in the final club’s basement. He became interested in brewing earlier this year, when his girlfriend gave him a book on home brew. The toughest part so far, Haller says, has been convincing others to drink his beer. “I’ve been giving the porter out to people,” he says, but a lot of them “think it’s going to be some Arkansas bathtub bullshit deal that...
Haller sidles up to the judges’ table with two brews, a porter and a steam beer. He is proud of both, but it’s the porter he’s counting on to impress the judges. “The porter turned out not so bad,” he says. The steam beer comes under heavy scrutiny from the judges. “What kind of yeast did you use?” Meyers asks. “Was it specifically a steam beer yeast?” No, the brewing store was out. Slesar...
...judges suggest multi-stage fermentation for Haller. “Get yourself a second vessel,” Meyers says. DeBisschop prods Haller to keep brewing. “Do this beer again, because I think you’re really on the right track here,” he says. All three judges are very impressed when Haller informs them that they’ve been drinking his inaugural effort. Haller looks to keep making suds. “They’re pretty knowledgeable, gave me some ideas,” he says immediately after leaving the judges?...
...flagship brew, “Senior Tutor Stout,” isn’t a coincidence. A thick, dark, Guinness-like beverage that they describe as having a “coffee and chocolate flavor with licorice undertones to balance it out,” the beer got its title when their brewing operation was temporarily shut down by Pforzheimer House Senior Tutor Melissa Gray. The small Pfoho Belltower closet in which they were brewing turned out to be off-limits and was summarily locked up, as was the stout. Eventually, the closet was reopened so the two seniors...
Besides the Senior Tutor Stout, another of the beers entered is the Nahuatl Pale Ale. “Nahuatl”—pronounced NA-wat—is the Aztec word for rabbit, and this beer has a very hoppy taste, which the two call a “Sierra Nevada Pale Ale kind of style.” Their third and final beer is “Lou Brown’s Olé,” a Belgian-style brew. “We were trying to make a lambic ale,” Hornstine says...