Monday 6/1 Update

A few updates for this week, unfortunately most of it is not that interesting. I got the results back from my entries in the Puget Sound Pro-Am and they were about what I expected, but would have liked them to be higher of course. I only have the raw scores at this point and will be able to analyze it all a bit more when I get the judges sheets with comments and everything. My Pale Ale and Stout fared the best and the Blonde and Amber performed poorly. Even though I could probably speculate for a few paragraphs, I will write another post once I understand why I got the marks that I did.

Last week I met with the guys from Schooner Exact Brewery twice last week. I got to check out their brewery, ask a bunch of questions and even got in some help with a brew on Saturday. Failed twice to bring a camera or my flip cam with me to get some media to spice up the blog a little. Saturday was their inaugural brew at their new location which was cool to be a part of. Schooner Exact is pretty much where I want to be in about a year (I would like to say sooner, but after all the research and such I have been doing, brewing a year from now is reasonable). It was another good opportunity to check out how someone else built their brewery and get some hands on work with some brewing equipment. I am probably going to help them out a little more in the future and will do a more in depth post later (even get a pic of two).

Got another brew in the works this week, probably Wednesday. Changed my mind about the consecutive pale ale brews because I have a good idea on how that is going to work out, doing a brown ale tomorrow.

On the planning front, things are moving forward again. Hit some points where I stalled out, but have found ways to get through that. Planning is fun to be able put all these ideas together and dream about how things will look in a year, but mostly it is a bitch. Gotta Hop...