I may be in the minority…but I am cool with Budweiser.

02 Monday Feb 2015

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Given that I am writing this blog post on the website of a nano brewery in the making, I don’t think it will come as a huge shock that I am a big fan of craft beer. I am also quite fond of the craft beer community. I love the devotion and support that craft beer enthusiasts show towards their local breweries and the excitement they feel in anticipation of a new release. I have witnessed the fevered fervor of tracking down a special release of a seasonal brew followed by the pure joy and titillation that comes with savoring its first pour. It’s a thing of absolute wonder to behold, and its something I will never tire of. I look forward to the day when even an ounce of that passion is sent the way of Regular Guy Brewing.

That said…I have to say that I am very disappointed by the angered response that my fellow brew enthusiasts have had towards Budweiser’s “Proud to be Macro” Superbowl ad. Continue reading →

The Ultra-Rare Tuesday Update!

20 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Holy frijoles! It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post. Actually the last one I wrote was me whining about not being able to brew.  I’m not going to put you through that again. Why? You ask. Did you guys actually brew something? You also ask. No we didn’t, but we did meet up with our good friends and homebrewers from StolzeStyle Brewing and fellow craft beer enthusiast Dwayne Muckensturm at a lovely little microbrewery, you may have heard me talk about them before, Recess Brewing.

We had a great time at Recess Brewing,  it was Eric and Jenny’s (StolzeStyle Brewing) first time trying their beer, we met Dwayne for the first time in person, and not just on Twitter, met Dwayne’s friend JT and finally met the other half of Recess Brewing, Kris. It was a whole night of first times! Great beer, great company and great conversations, could it get any better?

It could!

After we closed Recess, Eric and Jenny followed us back to my house to finish the evening sharing our homebrew. They brought six different homebrew selections! While they were all quite tasty, my personal favorites were the Black IPA and the Bourbon Barrel Stout made with cocoa nibs. We presented them with only three different brews, two of which they have already tried. To make up for the lack of variety, we made them sit through every crappy movie we ever made! Evened it right up!

My only regret about the night, was I completely forgot to snap a few pictures to share with you. Shows how out of practice I am on the old blogging machine! Don’t fret. Brian, Seth and I are getting together this Friday night to work on the business plan and some budget stuff and I’ll have my trusty camera at the ready to capture all of the spreadsheet excitement!

Until next time!

Sometimes you just can’t brew

22 Monday Dec 2014

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Hey everybody in blog land, doing all the blog stuff you do. How are you? It’s been a while. Too long? Maybe, but hey, life is that way. What a great segue into the topic of this blog post! Brian, Seth and I would love to give you a blog post full of brewing pictures and beer porn every Monday, but sometimes when you’re trying to coordinate three very busy schedules, things just don’t work out.

Let’s put together a time line shall we?

October 24th, 2014 – we brewed our Red Rye IPA. We hit our target numbers, efficiency was great and the session went relatively smooth.

November 7th, 2014 – Brewmaster Seth was out of town and it was up to Brian and I to transfer the Red Rye IPA to secondary and do a little dry hopping.

November 14th, 2014 – dry hopping had gone long enough and we filtered and kegged our Red Rye IPA.

November 21st, 2014 – we bottled our Red Rye IPA and had our first taste of the carbonated masterpiece and have been enjoying it ever since.

November 28th, 2014 – we wanted to get a brew session in, but it was the weekend after Thanksgiving and our Brewmaster had family stuff going on. No big deal.

December 5th, 2014 – we wanted to get a brew session in, but Recess Brewing had just opened up and felt it was pretty important to pay them a visit on their opening week. Plus it’s beer, so…

December 12th, 2014 – Brian had a Christmas party to attend. When the brewery is in Brian’s garage, brewing becomes a little complicated.

December 19th, 2014 – I had a bachelor party to attend on Saturday and there was no way I could expect to spend Friday night brewing and all day Saturday drinking beer and playing golf and hanging out with friends until the wee hours of the morning.

December 22nd, 2014 – this is today. Now let’s chat about future brewing possibilities.

December 26th, 2014 – this is the Friday after Christmas. Probably not going to happen.

January 2nd, 2015 – I have a wedding rehearsal and dinner and a wedding the next day so count me out. Brian and Seth could possibly pull together a session without me though…nudge nudge, wink wink!

January 9th, 2015 – this is realistically the next possible day we can brew. That is if the weather cooperates and it’s not so cold our pumps will freeze up.

So we haven’t brewed a beer since October 24th, haven’t done anything brewing related since November 21st and probably won’t be able to brew until January 9th. Wow! Am I having brewing withdrawals? Yes I am!

Until next time…

Getting in the flow of things…

11 Thursday Dec 2014

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dohSometimes in life, you are just cruising along, thinking that everything is just fine and dandy. You haven’t a care in the world…until it hits you. You know that moment. That instantaneous feeling of self-loathing and general perturbation that strikes you like a load of bricks when you realize that you are an idiot. A complete frickin’ idiot.

I will fully admit, that I am more than well acquainted with this feeling. Such moments can be tough to take, because in said moments of complete cognizance, you are fully aware that you are not as bright as you previously thought you were. Or, to paraphrase one of my personal role models in life…one Lloyd Dobler…you suddenly know enough to know that you don’t know. And that’s something.

But here’s the good news. These moments of clarity provide us with a huge opportunity. Our newly achieved awareness presents a great challenge. We know of the problem…now what’s the solution? Continue reading →