Wednesday, January 22nd 2014
I attended college at Minnesota State University, Mankato. In microbiology classes we learned about making beer but never in enough detail or in practice. During this time I lived with several international students. I had mentioned the idea of making beer to a few of them. The German international student laughed and said, “Why would you make bier!? Go to the store for bier.” My friend and roommate from Nepal stated, “I Like beer. Beer is good. Do it.” One of my closest friends, the Australian, said, “Hell yeah, dude. Let’s make beer. None of that weak stuff though.” Those of you who knew us at the time would know that there was a lot more profanity in that statement. So we began making beer. We decided that a kit would be a good place to start and we picked a beer that we wished we could buy, a saison. It turned out wonderful! We drank it all the weekend it was ready, became elated, and knew that if there was beer like this commercially available it would out sell the large pilsner companies. (You know who) Looking back on this it’s funny because they seem to be commercially available everywhere. We discovered that craft beer was going to be the next big thing right as the boom began. We had a roommate that felt, “uncomfortable” about us making beer, as if it was illegal. (what a loser) I cared so much about making beer we paid him a few months rent and told him to get lost. My Aussie friend and I used to, and continue to do so, talk about starting a brewery called ‘Bushfire Brewing Company’
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