Frogs Bottom Brewery - The Beginning

What a delightful find - the Auburn Brew Club! I have been homebrewing for about 30 years, the last 22 years in Auburn. I am a whole grain brewer with a fairly simple cooler-style setup but the beer is good by all accounts. I have a proper freezer incubator fermentation chamber and am a professional when it comes to cell/yeast culture (that is part of my research in my professional life). I specialize in Belgians and English sours - I grew up in Canada and the culture there is very different regarding beer. We don’t shake hands so much - just pass new acquaintances a beer! Phist! – and the job is done!

Anyway, by virtue of an introduction, I have several friends who home brew as well and we have talked about such a club for years - just never seemed to get off the ground. So we are delighted somebody showed up to get us all off of our collective pomposity and started this thing.

My ancestors were British laborers working outside of London in the malting and masonry businesses in a delightfully named location called Frog’s Bottom (a bottom is a valley) just outside of Stoke Poges which is North West of London. You really couldn’t make up a better name than that! Check out Stoke-Poges.com although you have to wait for some one to turn on the computer I think as its a pretty small place. Allison and I have decided to call our budding brewery The Frog’s Bottom Brewery as a tip of the hat to them. Hence the name of the blog and a tip of the hat also to John for setting it up. Now I just have to figure out what to use it for! Cheers, CB.

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