IT IS HERE!!!

Fellow Yardsailors, it's my great honor to unveil the latest in Yardsale Brewery's Home Brewing technology - what we affectionately refer to as the BWSTTBC, which of course stands for Big Welded Steel Three Tiered Brewing Contraption. Just because we're lazy, we've shortened BWSTTBC to "the Beast". Words do the Beast no justice, so in order to justify this post, here's what it looks like:

Yesterday Daddy Yard Sale and I brewed our first all grain beer. It is a clone of the Saint Arnold Chrismas Ale, a dark brown ale with literally 1 ton of grain in a 10 gallon batch - ok, maybe not 1 ton, but it seemed like it. There was definitely a lot of grain, which will surely produce a kick ass, ass kicking beer (by that I mean not weak in the taste or alcohol departments). Instead of Christmas Ale, but in keeping with the Christian spirit of the season I'm toying with the names Jesus Loves You Ale, Jesus Loves This Ale, Screw the Frankincense and Myrrh Baby Jesus Rather Have This Ale (maybe a bit long...) or All I Got Kyle For Christmas is a Bottle of This Ale (long, yes but also true). Since it won't be unveiled until Leslie's Baby Shower in January, maybe we can come up with some other suggestions and do a Survivor like ritual to find the winner. Or maybe we'll do what we've always done and Brewmeister will come up with a name in a few minutes and print out some artless labels... Allright, enough typing, here are some more pictures that are worth at least a dozen or two words.

Big thanks go out to Brewmeister's Dad for helping me put the Beast together and another big thanks to Rudy, Brewmeister's Dad's friend who gave us the steel and showed us how to weld. Oh, and I almost forgot big thanks go out to Daddy Yard Sale for showing me the importance of life by running like a girl when the Beast caught on fire. He admitted to running, but says he didn't scream like a girl, although I definitely thought I heard a high pitched sound as he bolted for the door. Probably just the sound of the propane as I turned it off...I just hope Mommy Yard Sale doesn't check Daddy Yard Sale's underwear...

Can't wait until January when we taste what we've worked so hard to make!! And remember, Beer is God's way of saying he loves you and wants you to be happy.