Washington Cask Fest

This last weekend my wife, a couple of friends, and I went to the Washington Cask Fest to pour beer up in Seattle.  We brought a bourbon barrel aged IPA, a Irish stout, and a coconut brown ale.  It seemed like all of the beers where well received and I got a lot of return [...]

The Irish in Me

Last weekend we had some of Katy’s friends from work over to have a early St. Patrick’s Day party (I’m getting too old to do it on a work night I guess).  So I made Irish soda bread and Irish stew, I also made two special beers for the occasion, one being a traditional dry [...]

The Entrepreneur Within Us

I often ask myself late at night when I can’t sleep why I decided to leave my well paying job with full benefits and payed vacations for a job that is hard physically, pays little, and has absolutely no benefits.  Sometimes I’m conflicted, life as a brewer is hard sometimes, people come up to me [...]

Doing the brewing thing

Things have been kind of slow after the holidays, I’m not sure if people are doing the New Years resolution thing or if the general public is just poor from the holidays.  I actually got to brew today which naturally being a brewer is always a good thing.  It was stout today, just 10bbl total, [...]

Psycobabble

Today was one of those days….I guess sometimes i just get really frustrated at how the brewery doesn’t seem to be going the direction I would like it to go.  It’s all been talked about and plans have been made to expand but nothing seems to happen. I was kind of in a funk today [...]