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Beer Quotes

What's a brew blog without beer quotes??

He was a wise man who invented beer. -Plato

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. -W.C. Fields

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. – Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. -His reply

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. -David Daye

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.-Henny Youngman

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. –Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. -Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. –Dave Barry

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. -David Moulton

People who drink light "beer" don’t like the taste of it they just like to pee a lot. – Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.-Kaiser Wilhelm

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer. -Homer Simpson

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. — Dave Barry

I drink to make other people interesting. -George Jean Nathan

They who drink beer will think beer. -Washington Irving

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway

Oatmeal + Stout

Dictionary. com definition of Oatmeal

- meal made from ground or rolled oats.
- a cooked breakfast food made from this.
- a grayish-fawn color.

Dictionary.com definition of Stout

A dark, sweet brew made of roasted malt and having a higher percentage of hops than porter.

Now, the only Stout I have ever had is Guinness, which happens to be one of my all time favorite beers, especially on tap. I have NEVER had oatmeal, for some strange reason I always got turned off by the mess in the bowl lol....

Well, for some reason I decided to brew a batch of Oatmeal Stout, now ya' can't have this in the morning for breakfast, but you certainly can enjoy a few with your dinner :)

Pembroke Farms Brewery Family Portrait

And you thought I was going to upload a family pic....

Brewery suffers a great loss..

Sad day at the brewery, suffered a great loss..we had to dump the Dutch Apple Ale batch, which I didn't even get a chance to blog about.

Not exactly sure what went wrong, wondering if the brown sugar didn't settle right since most of the bottles had alot of dark thick sediment floating around. I let it ferment 3 weeks per the directions on the recipe, but I''m wondering if that was part of the problem, maybe I should have left it in for another week. Thought I could salvage a few bottles, I popped one open over the sink to check on the carbonation and we had a gusher. Yep, our first beer gusher, and boy did this thing spray, even scared Zoey, who high tailed it upstairs lol..

We followed the same process that made 7 other great brews so I'm not worried about it, since we brewed a Pilothouse Pilsner this past Saturday night and going to try a Cherry Stout tonight, next up after that will be a Raspberry Lager.

Oh well, live, learn and most of all...drink.

Pilothouse Pilsner

Finally got around to brewing Pilothouse Pilsner, I haven't tasted a Pilsner yet so can't wait for this to be done, yep another 6 week wait.

Here's a wort pic taken before going into fermenter.