Knowing is.....

GI Joe would say knowing is half the battle...


My research for home brewing is proving that knowing isn't even the start of the battle

I'm have a pretty good idea of what I want to do. In the overall scheme of things.

Kegging looks to be vastly more efficient over bottling in both ease and getting things carbonated. The biggest turn off to home brewing since I became interested has been cleaning all of those damned bottles.

The down side to kegging is it's a much higher upfront cost and I truly look at home brewing as something of a capital investment. If I do three or four batches a year at five gallons a batch that is just a bit more then four 12 packs of beer. So three or 4 batches over the course of the year would be about right for me.

The other thing with beer brewing is that unless you flat break something you can pretty much use it for freaking ever. They may come out with some new fancy thing but it won't help you do your job any better.

I guess the other question is how many kegs do I buy up front?

All good things

All good things start someplace... this good thing starts here.

So if your a regular reader of my normal drivel you know that I have two loves in life. Beer and Linux.

I've always been interested in one way or another with home brewing and finally got a true lesson in it's "mysterious" ways not long ago. It was enough to push me over the edge and actually try it out.

With the research I've done so far I'm finding A LOT similarities between home brewing and the same kind of learning curve I faced with Linux. Lots of info all over the place you just have sort it all out and figure out what works best for you.

So with that I christen this blog "Beer Obits" get it... it's a "Beer Obituary" OK maybe that is just me and my humor talking there.

I'm sure I will update this blog every so often but not nearly as often as my other one.

Stay tuned I'm sure many bad batches of beer will ensue.