12 Monday May 2014
Posted in Business Stuff
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ale, beer, brewing, craft, craft beer, extra pale ale, Fleetwood Mac, guy, hot blonde, jalapeño, Kenny Rogers, regular, regular guy brewing, Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter
You should all consider yourselves lucky. As I write this, it is currently Sunday evening. Relax time. Unwind time. My wife is busy doing wife stuff, kids are in bed and normally I would have taken advantage of this rare quiet time to indulge in a game or two of NHL 14.
09 Friday May 2014
Posted in Business Stuff
Being a brewer isn’t always about brewing beer. Sometimes it’s about crunching numbers and budgeting. Sometimes it’s about recipe building and water science. Sometimes it’s about hitting the streets and getting some good unbiased feedback from potential future customers. That’s what tonight is all about.
Over the past couple years, we’ve been carefully and strategically building a relationship with an establishment that we feel would best serve our brand. This establishment will be our starting point, our first of many (hopefully). We love this bar. From the great food to the wide selection of beer on tap, to the very friendly and helpful owners and staff, this is the bar for the regular guy who wants more from his beer than fizzy yellow water beer.
So we venture out with a six pack sampler of tasty Regular Guy beers to serve up a flight to the owners. We’ll get their feedback, find out if our beer or beers would be a welcome addition to their line up and continue to grow our relationship with our future number one.
Wish us luck and we’ll fill you in on the progress we’re hoping to make!
Have a great weekend everybody!
05 Monday May 2014
Posted in Our Brews
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beer, bottle, bottling, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, lager, regular, regular guy brewing, the four seasons, Yuengling, Yuengling Traditional Lager
Early May back in 2014,
What a very special night for…Regular Guy Brewing.
What a beer, oh what a night.
I apologize. My terrible singing voice even comes through on here.
I also apologize to The Four Seasons for ruining your song.
Friday night we got together to bottle a couple beers. We bottled our unnamed EPA.
That’s the beautiful baby in the foreground. The other beautiful baby in the background is the one and only Yuengling Traditional Lager, obviously. We drank some of that too. Our EPA turned out great for the first dtaft recipe. We have some minor tweaks we want to make before we brew it again, but all in all this one was a success.
We also bottled our Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter.
You can call it “black beauty” or simply delicious! Of course the Yuengling jumped in for the photo op as well.
Full flavor descriptions and ingredient profiles will be coming soon for these two mainstays.
Have a great week everybody!
02 Friday May 2014
Posted in Just for Fun, Random Stuff
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beer, big blue, blue, Blue sky, breaking bad, brewing, craft, craft beer, Fring's Blue, guy, meth, neighbors, nosey, nosey neighbors, regular, regular guy brewing
When we started brewing, our “brewery” was in my garage. It’s a pretty normal place for a home brewer to brew. It’s efficient because bringing a big old kettle to boil on my electric range would take a lifetime, it’s better to spill on the garage floor because all I have to do is wet the floor with the hose and squeegee away and even though the smell of the boiling wort and hops is one of our favorite smells, the significant other probably wouldn’t appreciate the entire house smelling as such. So it worked for us as it does many other home brewers.
The difference for us was my wife and I had just bought the house a few months prior and we had some nosey neighbors.
One Saturday morning, after a long night of brewing, I was in the garage cleaning up a bit. The nosiest of neighbors just happened to be walking his dog right by my driveway and decided to stop and have a chat. Here’s how it went:
Mr. Nosey: Hey how’s it going?
Me: Not bad, how about you?
Mr. Nosey: I’m good. Hey, I uh, I work afternoons and I get off pretty late. I drive home this way and I see you guys hanging out in the garage.
Me: Yep. We…
Mr. Nosey: (interrupting) What are you doing late at night?
I couldn’t help but chuckle. Here we were in a brand new neighborhood with a very crude homebrew setup, late at night AND Breaking Bad was at the height of its popularity. I knew what he was thinking, but come on! If we were cooking “Blue Sky,” “Big Blue,” “Blue Magic,” “Fring’s Blue” or simply “Blue” don’t you think we would have closed the garage door?!? Seriously!
Me: My friends and I are brewing beer.
Mr. Nosey: OOOOOH! Ok!
He was relieved to say the least. He then went on to tell me all about every beer he’s had in the last ten years. I listened politely because I’m way too nice and eventually we went on our separate ways.
Moral of the story? There isn’t one. I just like the story.
Happy Friday fools!
28 Monday Apr 2014
Posted in Our Brews
Hello friends and fellow beer lovers. I know how you get all cranky and whiney when you don’t get your Regular Guy Brewing blog fix, so I’m going to help you out. I got what you need, you just need a little update. It’s update time! Gather round because here it comes…
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