this past weekend marked an event that i have been waiting 3+ years to do. And i was finally able to purchase the necessary equipment (thanks to a misc. check from MH that i didn’t expect to get) to brew my own beer. This is step one for a dream that is about 20 years out which is for Brooke and I to own a microbrew/restaurant.

I purchased a book ‘How to Brew’ and all the fun equipment necessary to boil, steep, ferment, and bottle. and I purchased the ingredients for a Winter Ale that is dark is color with chocolate overtones. As I sit and type i am watching the airlock bubble as the fermentation process does its job. I can wait to have a party over here to celebrate this — as there is no way i want to drink 5 gallons of the same beer. That is, assuming that after i take my first drink I don’t have to throw the whole thing out because i screwed up somewhere in the process (which is perfectly possible).

Sometime in the next couple weeks I hope to make another beer, i’m thinking i’m going to make a cinnamon spice beer with some other flavor in it. Certainly a winter, or Christmas beer.

And a hearty thanks to Bob at Bob’s Home Brew for owning a phenomenal store and an overwhelming sense of wanting to help me get off the ground.

peace
joel