This is why we brew…lessons learned.

Realized this morning that no one wrote up a recap of last Friday’s brew session. Since we are maintaining this blog as a record of our triumphs and fails as we mosey our way towards becoming a commercial brewery, I thought that I would be remiss if I didn’t at least write something up.

da-dogs-17But before I do that, I have to point out the photo to the right that I came across while browsing the interwebs.

Is it just me, or is this one uber-cool pooch. I’d drink a beer with that guy anytime.

Moving on.

Last Friday night marked a couple of key milestones for Regular Guy Brewing. First, it was our first attempt at brewing a stout. And secondly, it was our first time utilizing our brewery control system in an actual brew session. Continue reading

I’m so excited…I might just pee myself

Ahhhhhhhh yeah, baby. Tonight is the night.

After a six week hiatus from actually brewing beer, tonight is the night when the magic will happen once again. Tonight….WE BREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In just a few hours, Brian’s garage will be filled with the absolutely amazing (and slightly erotic) odor of sweet hot sticky wort. Getting a little…well maybe a lot…turned on just thinking about it.

On the agenda: our first foray into stouts.

It’ll big big bodied but milky smooth. Just like me.

I’m antsy. I’m giggly. And I’m down to brew some beer.

Regular Guys…mount up! Let’s do this thing!

 

How’ve you been? It’s been a while…

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Holy cow! It has been over a month since I’ve blogged on the old blogging machine. We need to catch up! How are you? How are things? How’s your mom?

Things on our end have been slow and steady. Sometimes it’s hard to make yourself brew beer in a garage when it’s-7° outside. My friend Joe would laugh at-7° and call us pansies because-7° in Minnesota is t-shirt weather. BUT-7° is too cold for me to go sticking my hands into water and pulling bottles out to fill them. Anyways, we have done a few things in the last month or so that’s worth bragging about.

Seth blogged on the bloggity blog blog maker about his control panel. This thing is really cool! It really is the brain of the brewing system. It can be and as automated as you want it to be. We could run the show 100% or we can just put in ingredients when the brain tells us too! Pretty exciting stuff! Seth is and always has been the my mad scientist and brewing equipment guru, but this tops all!

We did manage to successfully brew a couple of beers. We have a Red Ale that is sitting in the old kegger right now that we’ll sample on Friday and another that we’ve already sampled and really like a lot. This brew has become known as our “Hot Blonde.” That’s right, it’s a jalepeño blonde ale! Sounds weird right? I thought it would too, but HOT damn it’s delicious! It has been regarded as our finest beer by at least one of our supportive parents (it was my dad). We like it a lot too.

Other than that it’s been business as usual. Babies are almost here. Work. Family stuff. Brian is looking sexier than ever.

Up next we are going to give a Milk Stout a shot. Never actually tasted a milk stout, but I’m pretty excited about it. We’ll keep you posted!

PAIN! So much PAIN!

Last night, Brian and I took the ice to play some hockey for the first time in about a year and a half. We both started playing hockey several years ago, but opted to take some time away from the game for our own reasons. Last night, we made our triumphant return to the ice to take part in Hockey North America’s Adult Beginner School.

Are we technically beginners? Not in the strictest sense, but we are fairly darn close. We’ve played a little bit, but we are by no means hockey stars. Plus, this gives us a chance to join a new team right from the ground floor. I think we would have loved to play with our old team again, The Beermen, but after we left they picked up a bunch of really good players and now they think that they are all awesome and stuff. Whatever fellas. Continue reading

Pink Striped Chair…

Well the brewery control panel is done. Finished it last night. I would be much more celebratory, but I am currently very annoyed by a non-beer related issue.

As I may have mentioned, the wife and I are expecting our first child. Our baby girl…Camryn Alexis…will be born in April. This is not the annoying part. This could not be more awesome.

chairThe annoying part has been a bunch of completely unnecessary drama that I had to go through in making arrangements for delivery of a pink striped chair for her nursery.

We ordered this chair from Target.com and had it sent to my office so that we wouldn’t have to run the risk of noone being home when it was delivered. This turned out to be a much bigger pain in the arse than we could have ever expected. I could go on, but I think that it might be a better use of my time if I just shared the following email that I sent out this morning. Continue reading