This past weekend I attended the wedding of the guy who taught me to brew. I met Darren my freshman year of college while living in the dorms. One afternoon I found him in the community kitchen stirring what had to be the darkest bowl of malt-o-meal I’d ever seen, but it smelled terrific. I pestered him with questions and was able to help a little. The next time he brewed I was there start to finish, and sampled the results at a small party where he’d kegged the beer in those little 5 liter canisters. The beer was a little hot, and I remember riding back home that night actively developing a hangover. Still, it was a blast and 3 years later my girlfriend (now wife) got me a kit.<\/p>\n
Sadly, I forgot to bring a bottle of my Yakistan Imperial IPA in the rush to get to the airport. Next time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This past weekend I attended the wedding of the guy who taught me to brew. I met Darren my freshman year of college while living in the dorms. One afternoon I found him in the community kitchen stirring what had to be the darkest bowl of malt-o-meal I’d ever seen, but it smelled terrific. I … Continue reading Brew Teacher marries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}