{"id":1871,"date":"2012-05-26T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T14:29:18","slug":"beer-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/beer-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I may have created a monster.<\/p>\n

About two months ago, it was my gentleman caller’s birthday. After a few digging conversations, I decided that I was going to get him a beer brewing kit for his birthday.<\/p>\n

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Funny thing is that as much cooking as I do, I never really expected to be an accomplice in the brewing of beer. Wait, that sounds like making a beer is a crime. This isn’t\u00a0Prohibition<\/a>! Perhaps we’ve just been watching too many episodes of\u00a0Boardwalk Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I find the process of making beer a lot like that of making bread. The more you learn about it by doing, the less mysterious (aka scary) the process is. I am sure that there will be mishaps along the way, but this has been a fun learning project. It has also \u00a0made us look at used beer bottles differently. We have essentially set up a home reuse operation.<\/p>\n

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The maiden batch was an Irish stout. It was tasty, a respectable first-brewing experience. We now have two other beers in various stages of their development, a wheat beer and an ESB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An adventure begins.<\/p>\n

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