Greetings from the land of beer!

So, the grains are currently in the boil for our next batch of beer-a-rew-ski, this time it's going to be some sort of light ale only not really because light ales are kind of wussy so we decided to add a little bit of brad and dan manliness because we like to do things like chew nails nad put up drywall on our free time.

Tonight we introduce our newest member of the brew crew, ms. amber hodge.  amber thus far has proved herself incredibly valuable, taking buffett on a walk while we sanitized some equipment, and looking up what distilled water was.  The distilled water convo went as follows, in a fun numerical ordering form to show sequence!

1) i look and realize brad is using distilled water instead of spring water

2) i say something like "distilled water, is that a potent potable?  i mean, can you drink distilled water?

3) amber laughs at me

4) brad gets a concerned look on his face

5) amber continues to laugh at me, and asks brad if when he got the water, it was next to other water or clorox

6) brad laughs, and then amber joins some more, saying to me "ha ha, yes, let's sell water next to other water that people can't drink"

7) brad stops laughing, looks into the kettle, and says, "wait, are we sure we can drink this? it has a weird blueish tint"

8) i feel slightly vindicated, only i think i know what's about to come

9) amber gets on the laptop, and looks up distilled water, and just mentions how it's water that's it's water, that is of course distilled, and is of course drinkable

10) amber goes, "oh wait, this brewing site says not to use distilled water"

11) i feel a bit vindicated again, but i still kind of know i cant win as soon as;

12) brad pulls out a bottle of gypsum and basically announces, "not to worry, i have gypsum!!"

13) amber continues to read, and lets us know that indeed, gypsum can cure the ills of brewing with distilled water

14) i just used 13, is that bad luck?  probably not.  this isn't some lame apartment building where people refuse to admit the 13th floor exists by calling it the 14th floor,  but really, we all know it's actually the 13th...

15) i should probably stop this list now. 

Summary; i'm a slight idiot on occasion.  If you know me, you already know this. and distilled water is totally drinkable.

Ready?  i mean seriously, are you ready for this?!?

A PICTURE!!!

That's right, this post should have a picture up top.  In said picture, you can see buffett, sitting at brad's feet, wanting to longingly drink the beer boiling on the stove.

more to come later?  potentially.

amber made strawberry shortcake.  it's f'ing delicious.