The other morning I came down to our kitchen and it smelled like a little chocolate factory… Hubby started brewing a Porter including chocolate malt and roasted barley. Sounds delicious? We’ll find out the taste in a few weeks. Also part of that brew: leftover hops from last years garden harvest. Luckily & just in time the new hops are ready to be harvested.
Hubby becoming more and more professional in brewing beer. The newest equipment: a dryer for drying hops (last year he dried the hops sitting on a board on top of my manual washing dryer with a fan below blowing on them…).
His beer is becoming famous and certain deals are in negotiation: exchanging beer for beef. Maybe the best currency these days.
The dream of a home brewer: the fresh homebrew only a handle pull away. Once you go tap, you never go back. So it’s time to take it to the next level: building a “keezer”. Who knows what a “Keezer” is? Well, it’s turning a chest freezer into a bar and turning (men’s) heads.
Voila, the bar is ready! Now it’s time to fill it with beer! Hang on, that’s already happened (a parallel process, of course!). We are having 3 times 20 liters of beer on tap. (And 20 liters of sparking water, as a side note).
A dream became true: the house bar is ready. Next challenge accepted: clean up the garage to create an “Irish pub” feeling. Let’s see how long this will take. Cheers!
Stuttgart547 