Mug Warrior

Yesterday Jarrod and I went to Brew Your Own Beer, absolutely not ironically, a store dedicated to homebrewing. We bought a kit and ingredients, and will either tomorrow, or next friday be taking the first steps to brew an American Brown Ale. We aren’t doing anything fancy, we are using prepackaged grains and extracts, and fermenting in a big ass plastic bucket. All told, we split a bill that came to $112 and it should net us two, or just slightly more, cases of beer. It’s a pricey case, but the initial investment of $63 for the starter kit (we spent $49 on ingredients, but we are actually attempting something that is a smidge more complicated), opens us up to try to brew a whole bunch of shitty beers. That is not to say homebrews are shitty (quite the opposite in fact), it is to say that the beer we brew will be shitty, maybe. The fellow who runs the shop (John Reynolds, a very friendly and helpful sort of chap) says it’s not rocket science, and Jarrod is displaying confidence in our ability to boil water and dump the ingredients in.

So in a few weeks we will know if we have become brewers, or we have become purveyors dirty water keeping in the tradition of dysentary. We’ll keep you posted.

11/11 Update: Brewed. We may have kind of burned some… We’ll let you all know next saturday if that buggered the flavour.