elizabeth_mn

On Sunday the women's homebrewing collective went on a feild trip to the local brewery store.  The ladies were really excited, having never been there before.  They do have all kinds of neat stuff!  We got some ingredients and went back to my house and brewed some new beer that we called Dark Crystal Stout - this came from a long string of jokes about dark, bitter, opaque, black, mwa-ha-ha looking beer, and then since there is a variety of malt actually called dark crystal, we couldn't resist.  Since there aren't usually a lot of women in the brewing shop, I think the male employees were a little surprised at us three running around giggling for half an hour, but they were even more surprised when we started takling to them and they realized that we didn't just stumble in off the street and we actually knew what we were talking about!

So yeah, the brewing went well, the collective is lots of fun!  If any other local ladies are interested, do let me know!  We usually brew on Sundays.  I want to start trying some new styles, like maybe Belgian, which tend to be kind of weird; the collective ladies want to do a fruit-flavored beer.  And yesterday the man and I put in the air conditioners, so if it gets really hot outside, we will still be able to stand being in the kitchen with the hot wort for a couple hours.