home brew

I brewed my first beer last weekend. I'm pretty proud of myself, and pretty excited to see how it comes out. From what I gather, that's a pretty common sentiment with one's first batch of homebrew, so forgive my girlish giddiness.

Impelled by my friend (and local Brew Ninja) Mark, who's been doing and championing homebrewing as a way to get exactly the kind of beer you want in much more quantity than you really need for a while now, I decided to take his advice and tap into his vast array of brewing knowledge, convincing him to co-author a beer with me.

Brain Lubricant. We all love it, and it happens to be the name of one of my beers soon to be available on the shelves. I'm starting a brewery. Here after, will be a detailed chronicle of the entire process of going from home brewer, to owning a commercial brewery. My hope is to demystify the whole process so that more home brewers take the initiative, and give it a go themselves. That means more good beer for all of us! Where does one start? Well, I’m starting with beer. Trying to make good, consistent batches of beer.

So I just had my quarter of a century birthday this past week and you would think it would have been stellar because it was on 10-10-10 in Austin, TX - my very first birthday in Austin.  I mean, come on, that has to be bad ass right?  It just has to!