Early Thoughts

I am two days into brewing school and I wanted to write down my initial impressions. First, there is no doubt in my mind that coming to the Siebel Institute was the right thing to do. I mean how could it not, look at the lunchroom:

Yes, there are kegs attached to those taps.

Don't get the wrong idea though, there is a lot more that goes on than drinking (the beers are free though). Besides, we can only drink at lunch and after class. I also must mention, that free beer with lunch seems like a great idea until about 30 minutes into the afternoon session. If you don't know, there are 4 hours of instruction in the afternoon, I drank more coffee to stay awake during the afternoon than I did the morning.

Like I mentioned earlier, this isn't just about drinking beer. There is a good 7 hours of instruction a day and it isn't all easy stuff. For example, we went over the bio-chemistry of the malting process of barley today. Lets just say, there is a reason you wouldn't find me in a bio-chem class at UW. The course is definitely going into the detail that I expected, which again reaffirms my decision to come here.

I will try to post as many things as I can throughout the next 6 weeks, I just want to be sure not to get distracted from real studying (yes, I have already spent time studying outside of class). If a post is either funny or makes little sense, that is probably a result of blogging while "researching"