Granny Clampett would be proud!!It looks as though we have created a monster at my house. My husband, cute as he is, is brewing beer! He started late last year and there are so many fermenters in my basement I am afraid the feds are going to raid us. It is not a still as Granny used; it is giant jugs of muck fermenting! Sound yummy!?
A little background; Mike works in Biopharma. Mike's company makes a respiratory drug for preemies and infants. It is marketed world wide. Moving up the ranks, he is my retirement plan. So he knows a bit about mixing ingredients
Mike says that the making of the beer is a very crude process of drug making, the legal kind. There I go again, feds - I am telling you. . .
I will heed the warning to you folks who might think about taking this hobby up at home too, it stinks when he is boiling the ingredients. It smells like gas, yes all of the kinds you can imagine. Boil the ingredients with the windows open!
He likes his beers. I call them disco beers. Don't get me wrong, I like a cold beer on a hot summer day - maybe even a cold winter day- no second thought I want a little Captain in the winter. Mike and his friends are connoisseurs of his different flavor beers. They are all very happy Mike has taken up this hobby.
Who'd a thunk beer would be such a big deal? Maybe John McCain?- I am digressing-
I just have to laugh that we have all of these giant jugs of beer fermenting in my house. He is having the best time making it and giving it to his friends. They really like it.
Mike goes to http://www.midwestsupplies.com/ to order the ingredients and all of the equipment needed to make a batch of beer. The different flavors are imitations of some of his favorites, he says when he makes them at home they are better and have quite the "kick" to them!!
So, here's lookin up your old address! Cheers!
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