Brew Dudes

My brother gave me a gift last year of 4 glass carboys that I should be using for all kinds of stuff.  I was thinking that I could get into mead making this summer as a way to get those carboy a-workin’.

So, I bought a book.  Sound familar?  Well, I bought a cider making book too…but that’s a whole separate post.

Anyway, mead is something I have wanted to make and with some instruction I feel that I could produce some fine honey wines.

I bought The Compleat Meadmaker and it appears to be the book on mead making.

So I have some reading to do in my near future.  I look forward to some new brewing adventures.

You know, Brew on.

Last Fall, these Brew Dudes made an apple cider using an old press.   The results were mixed but for a first try, it could have been worse.

The cider came out drinkable which was the goal of the whole experiment.

To make 2010 the year we make contact with cider success, I bought a book about making cider.

The book Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider should be arriving at my doorstep in a few days.

With this book, I am pretty sure the cider will come out much better than the first time.

Maybe it will have a malted cider recipe.

While at the ACBF, we visited the White Birch Brewing booth.  They are a very small brewery out of New Hampshire and part of a growing group of start up businesses known as Nanobreweries.  While there is no official definition of a nanobrewery, their output is really small (less than 7 barrels).

Here is a grand list of nanobreweries across the US.

I read some other articles on the costs, time, energy, and legal stuff that goes into creating a nanobrewery.  From all accounts, the odds are stacked against you to make the operation profitable.

Although I like keeping things that I find fun out of my “making a living” bucket (flies in the face of the ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’ adage, but it works for me), I praise these entrepeneurs’ courage and vision.

Hey Mike, let’s go to Juilo’s.