Hi Everyone. As usual, I'm thrilled it's Friday.
UPDATE: Click here to watch the brewery video.So I'm diggin' the Facebook world so far. It's amazing the people who find you and it's fun to catch up on people, what their doing, what their kids are doing, etc. The biggest challenge is not spending too much time on there. I have had to commit to not looking at it as I head to bed. I did one night and ended up spending two hours on there before I knew it.
I'm actually thinking of entering the Twitter world now. I can't explain why Facebook seems better than e-mail, but it does. And I find more and more friends connected with me on FB than via e-mail now. Weird. Times they are a changin'.
I worked on a
Finding Minnesota segment that airs this coming Sunday that is kind of fun. It's about the
Vine Park Brewing Company in St. Paul. It's one of those facilities where they help you brew your own beer.
There are lots of places out there and on the web that will sell you all you need to do so at home, but Vine Park is one of the few around that let you do it all right on premises. You don't have to buy any equipment, deal with the mess, or risk making a bad brew (I suppose that's always a risk, but they take a lot of that out).
Well it seems whenever I shoot a Finding Minnesota, I think to myself, "I have to come back here and check this out on my own." Well this time, I didn't waste any time. It likely helped a little that the photographer I shot with was as excited about the prospect of brewing his own batch as I was. By the end of the day, he had talked to another photographer and got him on board. I recruited a few other friends from work, and we called and made a date.
Jose
and Bob find they need a lot of malted barely to make their “High-Octane
Rattlesnake brew”.
But they said the aroma was worth the extra effort.
Chris gets his malted barely.
PJ makes sure he has just the right amount of glucose for his brew.
Jennifer adds the last of our malted barely.
The boys seemed to get perplexed by the scientific measurements….
It must be a boy thing because I really wasn't that complicated…
Neither did Jennifer.
Jennifer and I added the last of our hops to our "pale ale"
I found the gang across the street having a "research and development meeting" without me!
Mike from Vine Park said overall, we did okay. We'll have to wait a couple of weeks to see how our brews turned out.
So, we brewed four batches this past Tuesday night. We find out in a couple of weeks how it turned out. Stay tuned.
And tune in Sunday night at 10 to see how you can plan your own brewing adventure with friends!
