Brewing a beer is a lot like starting a brewery. There are different ingredients that go into the business. You can add in varying quantities of money, space, equipment, etc. to get different end results, depending on the type of brewery you are trying to launch. Sometimes things don’t quite play out how you imagined they would, a stuck mash if you will. Sometimes you need to get crafty when solvi...

We are in the homestretch friends and I couldn’t be more excited…and terrified. Every time I think we have reached the pinnacle of chaos, things somehow get even more chaotic. But I take comfort in knowing that once the doors open and we launch, it’ll be just smooth sailing…right? RIGHT!?

The last month has been a mad dash to get ready for Calgary International Beerfest. With the festival just a w...

Well, since my last post, it feels like everything has happened and nothing has happened all at the same time. I’ll warn you now, there are a lot of different emotions that may come out in this post so prepare yourself for anything.

When I last blogged, our tanks, brewhouse, etc. hadn’t been shipped and Blake and I were about to head down to Seattle to pick up our glycol unit and wort chiller.  So...

I mentioned concrete polishing in my last blog…terrible stuff that concrete polishing. After a failed attempt to finish the floors ourselves, we finally gave in and paid the professionals to do it. Now, being the crafty souls we are, we couldn’t just finish the floors, OH NO, we had to finish the floors in style. So, with Kintsugi flair, we filled all the cracks in the concrete with gold glitter....

It has been a while since the last post so I figured I would write a bit of an update for you all. We received approval from the bank on our loan application in September. The news that we had been approved for the loan was invigorating! We hit the ground running, accomplishing some pretty daunting tasks such as trenching out the floors and plumbing in new drains, ordering our equipment, and start...

So I could start at the beginning and tell you all the stories about brewing in the garage and how I learned about brewing from Blake, but that stuff is boring and what you really want to hear about is brewing mishaps because, let’s be honest, we all like to laugh at people epically failing. With that in mind, I am going to tell you about my first experience brewing, by myself, on our homebrew sys...