Beer & Me

I like beer. That’s obvious to anyone who’s even taken a cursory glance at this or either of the other two beer blogs that I maintain. I like everything about beer – how it tastes, how it looks in a glass, how it works so well as an ingredient in almost every dish I make, how it’s made and how much fun it is to make at home.

My wife can take or leave it. If it weren’t for me being around the house she would probably go months at a time without having one. The idea is shocking to me.

But she patiently tolerates how much beer has invaded our home. I have a lot of beer in the house. I receive quite a lot of it from breweries for tasting and review. I take my time with these reviews and at anytime there is anywhere from a six-pack to a case’s worth of beer waiting for my tasting. One half of a shelf in our refrigerator is devoted to beer as is one whole cabinet in our kitchen.

And that’s just the commercial beer. I have two to three hundred bottles stored in my homebrewing room in the basement. Yes, a room devoted to homebrewing – I ferment beer and store my equipment there. All those bottles, variously full of beer or waiting to be so are on shelves and on the floor.

And that’s just in the house. A good quarter or more of the available storage space in our garage is devoted to my all-grain brewing equipment. That’s a big wooden stand that I built with two gas burners, a cooler that I converted into a mash tun, innumerable pots, a keg that I cut the top off of, propane tanks and miscellany.

And not once has my wife ever complained, implied inconvenience or even looked askance at my various beer messes. I have a wonderful wife!

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