State of the Brewery Address...

Readers of the blog probably understand what I am writing half the time, hopefully find me mildly entertaining and at a minimum know the name of the brewery that I am starting.  This first post of the new year should be all of the above and help give everyone an idea of where I am in terms of getting this shit going.

I am not one to make resolutions, especially ones like "I will write a brewery update once a week" because we all know there is no way that I will follow through on that one no matter how hard I try.  That being said, Payette Brewing Co will sell beer in 2010, no promises when though.

The number one concern for me right now is raising the remaining money needed to get this going.  Once I get the money, things will start to pick up a lot.  There are a lot of other little things that are getting sorted out right now in terms of location, marketing, financing and of course beers.

I continue to make pilot batches and some people have been able to sample different beers that are in the works.  Right now I am trying to figure out a way to have a tasting event, even though I don't have a location to have people come to.  Stay tuned for that, because getting all of you involved in the beer development is very important to me.  The votes coming in are overwhelmingly in support of an IPA, so I am going to turn my focus towards that very shortly.  I want to make another batch of the Mutton Buster Brown Ale, but after that, I will do a few consecutive versions of the Outlaw IPA. 

As far as the blog, I really plan on using some more media on here.  Pictures are the simple route, but I am planning on busting out the flipcam and putting together some vids.  The key to that isn't just taking video, it is getting my ass motivated enough to edit the video, add some tunes and post it (everyone who went to Steamboat last year knows how difficult it is for me to make a video).  Rest assured that once I get some footage, the PBC Productions videos will be gems.

Happy New Year and get excited because PBC is coming in o'ten (yes, you can say o'ten, it works, trust me, I substitute taught an English class once)

Gotta Hop