Beer

Beer What a wonderful thing it is and if you love beer like I do today is a wonderful time to be alive. Gone are the Days where all you had to choose from was bland beer mass produced with low quality ingredients and cheap adjuncts. Today a trip to your local grocery store for a six pack can be a daunting task. The amount of quality beer and styles available to us today is nothing short of amazing. We are witness to a beer revolution that was born in the basements and closets of home brewers all across America. These brewers treat beer as a craft and are focused on making a quality product with quality ingredients that tastes great. It’s nice that these days it is as easy to go to your local brewery and pick up a growler of your favorite freshly brewed beer as it is to go to gas station and get a six-pack. So that brings us to this blog this will be a place for me to share my beer experiences with you.  Topics will range from what I am drinking, what’s brewing and local breweries throughout the Midwest.

Let me give you a little back ground in on me I brewed my first batch of beer sometime in 1998 and I made a few batches until 2000 when I brewed a stout and it went horribly awry and I had to drain poor the entire batch. That experience coupled with lack of a good local homebrew shop I decided to give up. Now after a 12 year break I am back with a new set up and a new passion for home brewing. I just finished my first batch. I started with an Apple Ale kit from Midwest supply it turned out better that could have hoped and with that first batch under my belt I am looking forward to a brewing surge of sorts in the next few weeks. Next weekend my wife and I ill being going to the Twin Cities I have tours booked for Surly, Summit and Steel Toe brewing I also plan on stopping by northern brewer and picking up a wort chiller and few kits until then cheers!