Today started like any other brew day. I woke up at 5:00 am and got things going then back home to get the boys to school. At 7:00 I was back at the brewery to mash in and then make sure my “day job” wasn’t falling behind. Today’s brew is batch number 29 - a pale ale that we will tap for our Anniversary Party on Sept 25th. Things have been as stressful as ever lately trying to keep up with the brewery, another full-time job, and the home life. It got a little emotional on the brew deck (that’s a fancy term I use to describe a step ladder and boost my ego) today when I realized we’re weeks away from doing this for a whole year. The upsetting part is I still have a checklist of things to do before we open. Side note: tomorrow morning we should have our projector up and running just in time for a football season.

Anyway, I’m still not much of a blogger and won’t pretend to be but I wanted to hit pause for a minute and say thank you to Megan, our family, friends, and new brewery family that helped us get here. The dream is over a decade old and the reality is coming up on 12 months. We couldn’t have done it without an absurd amount of help from a lot of people and I will be forever grateful! So please come join us in one hell of an anniversary celebration on the 25th.

Lastly I’d like shout out to my boss’ wife, if you see this on Facebook and tell him I’m slacking off during business hours again; I would like you to know that I typed this while my work computer was doing a critical update. :)

Cheers,
Alex