Wasn't sure of what to Blog about quite yet so I thought I would talk about our introduction into brewing our own beer.... It was just over two years ago now when Whitney was visiting me at school and we were "pre-gaming" (what kids today call drinking before going out to drink) at my friends place. He happened to have an Oktoberfest that his dad and brother made. We both had one and thought it was delicious! This was both of ours 1st experience tasting homebrew and it was quite the positive experience. A few months later on a whim we decided to go to a local homebrew store that we often passed doing our every days things. We checked out some of the kits needed to make beer and asked many questions to the shop keeper (he looked like he was 15 btw) and decided to sleep on it. I believe it was the next day that we bite the bullet and went ahead and bought a basic kit along with an extra carboy (a glass vessel used to ferment beer in for you non-homebrewers). With the kit we picked out a Bock to brew.
Our 1st beer we made turned out to be the worst beer I have ever drank. To give you an idea of how bad it was, remember making "mud soup" when you were a kid playing in puddles...that tasted exquisite compared to this. We actually still have some left we haven't dumped out (going on two years old now). Further down the road we learned that Bocks are lagers and need to be "lagered" at low temps (usually in a refrigerator). So despite our turmoil with our 1st brew, we kept at it, made better beer and now here we are Blogging about it.
Most of the topics I will be Blogging about will be about beer. I will blog about the beers we make and beer related things we do. I also have interests in cooking and blogging about our travels so you may see Blogs about that as well. I hope is to teach people about what I know of beer and learn from others as well (both homebrewing and comercial beers alike).
Until next time,
Prost!
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