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[MolBasser]

Finally! I got to meet Charlie Papazian!Charlie was at the brewery this morning to sample some test batches of Fred, Charlie, and Ken's Lager (number 2 in the Sierra xXx™ series).He dropped in the lab for about a half hour before the tasting and we showed him all our cool toys. I shook his hand and said "Glad to meet you! Because of you, I have this job. Your book got me started in homebrewing in the early nineties" He smiled and thanked me.After the lab tour we tasted beer together (Charlie, Ken, Steve Dresler, I and the sensory crew) for about 45 minutes.It was pretty sweet! He is a very nice guy and he sure knows his beer.ETA: and he wants me to do some genetic analysis on his yeast strain, at Ken's suggestion. Sweet!At the end of the day we had a beer givaway and I got a 12er of our Gold Medal winning Pilsner (WBC) and a twelver of our Gold Medal winning Kolsch (GABF).And it is Friday!And taxes are done.Woot!HOIST!:PMolBasser

Edited by MolBasser, 16 April 2010 - 05:18 PM.

[zymot]

Making the life change, getting the zymurgy degree from Davis and then making the move from Santa Cruz to Chico. TGood on ya Basser.Charlie is the jesus of homebrewers.

[BrewerGeorge]

I did shake his hand at Cincinnati, but he probably remembers your name.

[RommelMagic]

Oh yeah?!? Well, I saw Charlie shake hands with someone on TV!! So there.

[3rd party JKor]

Nice! Charlie is a cool guy. We had him for a book signing way back when I was working at the LHBS in college.

[Howie]

That's really cool. Sounds like a great day!!My only problem with this thread is the title. If I'm going to be talking about a "dream" of mine, it would need to include naked women. Aside from that. . .

[drewseslu]

Very nice guy, I've met him twice, at GABF and WBC.

[denny]

Charlie's a great guy. I knew his nephew also through a homebrew forum. One time at NHC, just after I was elected to the GC, I saw Charlie and his nephew together. I walked over to say hi, and the nephew said to him "This guy knows more about homebrewing than you do!" I turned bright red, Charlie just laughed and smiled....

[MolBasser]

That's pretty cool!lol.MolBasser

[zymot]

Charlie's a great guy. I knew his nephew also through a homebrew forum. One time at NHC, just after I was elected to the GC, I saw Charlie and his nephew together. I walked over to say hi, and the nephew said to him "This guy knows more about homebrewing than you do!" I turned bright red, Charlie just laughed and smiled....

The message I get from Charlie is, "Homebrewing is fun." NOT "Look at me, I know alot about homebrewing!"

[djinkc]

Nice guy, I introduced myself a GABF a couple years ago. Shook his hand and said Thank you.Then he watched me drink 1 oz of beer.

[MtnBrewer]

The message I get from Charlie is, "Homebrewing is fun." NOT "Look at me, I know alot about homebrewing!"

Agreed. That was needed in the dark early days of homebrewing because it sure looked hard. His message was don't stress out, it's not that hard, look even a dumbass like me can do it. That message brought a lot of people into the hobby and with more homebrewers, we quickly got access to a better selection of ingredients, particularly hops and yeast. But his material was never the most technical content. For that we had Miller (then), Palmer (now) and also Fix, Noonan, etc.