Friday, September 5, 2008

Chicago Branch

The Chicago Operations are now in full swing. We have six batches under our belts and more in the works. On the downside, our apartment is on the third floor and during the summer the temp stayed around 80 all the time. As a consequence our brews, all ales, suffered. They have that buttery cider yeast byproduct that has plagued me since i started making beer. Winter is coming up (its already fucking cold here in the city), so maybe ill stash a carboy in the stone walled basement and make some chicago lager?

And something elese: Unbelievably, in the entire city limits there is only one homebrew supply store, and their hop selection is real bad. Listermans is much much better. I thought this was Chicago, where everything is available? I guess the alcohol police have some sort of legacy here...

Any thoughts on websites that ship hops so i can get what i want instead of substituting my first choice for a second or sometimes third?

Wu and i are (quite cutely) naming all of our batches after famous thinkers and their works. So be prepared for some shamelessly bad beer puns. love you all. drink up slackers

3 comments:

Caspito said...

also, dave, can you let me make my own column on the page to list the beer that we make up here?
thanks

Dave v1.2 said...

Looks like the links are up on the side; good work, Caspito!

In other news, great to have the Chicago Branch running at full swing. Words cannot describe our potential merger and it will be great to be back in business with you once again. Much love.

Caspito said...

as we do