Monday Night recap: the “postpartum” edition
As you may have read previously Jeff’s new child limited our ability to brew the last few weeks but thankfully we’re now officially back in the swing of things and into the postpartum days. I know you might be thinking about postpartum depression but actually it’s more like postpartum elation (for all of us…but especially for Jeff’s wife because she’s allowed to drink beer again).
Since Jonathan was gone (he allegedly had a date to the Patty Griffin concert) we made due and recruited my younger brother (in town for the week) to help us. It turns out he was just as good at all brewing related tasks as Jonathan with the only differences being:
- He didn’t post a new tweet ever 5 minutes
- He has better taste in music (we didn’t have to suffer through some random/terrible band from Jonathan’s music library)
- He didn’t make any offensive/inappropriate comments to our wonderful patrons
Oh, and the wort didn’t boil over like it does when Jonathan watches it. Wow.
Also, we brewed a pale ale…come back in 4 weeks to find out how it turns out.





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