Alright forget what I said before about filling in gaping holes...it's just not going to happen. I think it's always going to be playing catchup, but I'll try to at least give a few of the missing highlights:
Samantha and I have been making beer at home. We've made ginger beer at home numerous times. Not the soda-pop kind but the unexpectedly powerful 7-8% alcohol kind. She's more a beer drinker than me (maybe two pints on a Friday night as opposed to my 1/2 - one) and so I got her a homebrew kit for her birthday.
We've made more than a dozen batches of beer beer now. We've got a nut-brown ale bubbling away in the cupboard right now. It's at least as much fun making and bottling it as it is drinking it. You can't help but feel like your brewing up some magical potion -boiling up herbs, and grains, and extracts in a steaming black cauldron. We thought about making some kind of brewing robes, so we could feel even more like witches. And the way it smells when it cooks is like nothing else, it's like a weird sort of caramel.
Then we get to share our creations with people. We made a couple of batches when Kris was here, and he said the nut-brown was his favorite beer ever. I'm reserving judgment but man it's yummy. How about 'Mudd and Bones Brewery'? I like the sound of that...
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