Man oh man. I suck at this whole blogging thing. It’s been almost two years since I last posted anything and most of my posts have started with something like “I’m back” or “I’ve been gone for a while” or some other crap.

I didn’t brew for a long while for a number of reasons. Here they are in a convenient bullet format:

* A lot of my beers were not coming out right. I couldn’t get my process down and it got annoying.

* Brewing takes a lot of time. Not neccesarily on the day you brew, but you have to watch the fermentation, rack the beer, and bottle the beer. So brewing a batch of beer means you have to have time to do the other stuff every week or so.

* I have too many hobbies. This directly relates to the previous bullet. If I have a bunch of other stuff I want to do – biking, playing guitar, going to bars to drink good beer and see local bands, etc. – bottling a beer that didn’t come out that great is going to get put off.

* There are tons of good beers to drink that I didn’t have to make. I can only drink so much beer in a week and there are TONS of good craft beers available. For a while there I was thinking that if my beer has nothing new to offer me, why would I drink it instead of something like Captain Lawrence, Boak’s, Sixpoint, or a bajillion others?

So there are my reasons for stopping. Why do I want to start again? I’m not going to give another bulletted list. Sorry. My basic reason is that it was fun every once in a while. Also, a friend of mine at work brews and talking to him about it all the time got me wanting to brew again. Oh, and I still have a bunch of grains in the pantry that are still good and it would be a shame to throw them away.

I’m planning on brewing an oatmeal stout pretty soon, maybe this weekend. There will be a post about it. Hopefully, there will be more posts more often, too. But don’t hold me to that because as you may have noticed, I’m not reliable.

Cheers.

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