I hear ya as well on the giving away. I find that I make a batch and end up trading half of it away or just giving it to people. Its like when you make an awesome meal and want to share it with everyone that is around.

As for Lost…I'm not making any plans real soon to come out east, but its definitely on my list to make it to D.C. or back to Boston or NY. I'll for sure give you a heads up and I'll just carry some on with me to give ya if we ever meet up.

Mike

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While brewing leaves you with a ton of beer, more than I drink, it's fun to give to people, bring to parties, have at parties, etc. And the most rewarding part of it is that you did it all yourself. I made some interesting beers from recipes I created myself (though they were all tweaked a bit by the experts at my local homebrew shop). The downside, of course, is that the beer won't have the same consistent quality that you get at a brew on premises place.

I'm gonna pick up brewing again in March I think, but I likely won't brew as many batches as I did last year (I was on a schedule to make beer as a wedding gift for someone). I'm thinking about trying some bigger styles that will age well since I likely won't be getting to drinking it as quickly as I went through some of the others I made.

-Lost

I can understand not wanting to get into homebrewing. It definitely takes some time. My weekend is going to have at least 3 hours of bottling and racking invovled with it. However, I really enjoy crafting beer. I think its because I'm a "creative" person. I just like to create and call it my own I suppose, plus it saves a little bit of money…Well, in a few years it will, after I'm done buying accessories and all the fun stuff that comes with brewing. LOL.

Hope your brew turns out yummy.

This kind of gives me an idea. If I sent you some of my homebrew, would you review it on your site? You can be as brutally honest as you like, my feelings won't get hurt.

Later

Mike

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