So we(my wife & I) have put this "brewery" together more as a joke. We ARE NOT by any means professional brewers and this is not a commercial brewery. But it seemed like we needed to have a name. The name itself comes from our 3 cats.
I started brewing back in 1992 or 93, I don't remember exactly. I went to college at UConn and I had access to the dorm kitchen through my job at the time. So I brewed beer in the kitchen and I fermented it in my closet. I think I only did that once. The rest of my brewing was done at my parents house and stored in the basement. I got tired of the bottling process and moved onto other hobbies, like computer stuff. Luckily the computer hobby paid off for me as it got me one good job after another. As time went on, my attitude towards home brewing was that I felt that it cost too much in terms of time and effort when there was so much good beer I could buy. But like so many others, after having some great homebrews last year(thanks, Ed from @LastingBrass) and coupled with the fact that some beers are very difficult to get yet you can brew a reasonable clone(Gandhi-Bot, Heady Topper, Pliny The Elder) I decided to try it again. The big difference this time as opposed my brewing stint in the 90s is that I have a kegerator and can keg my beer instead of bottling it.
I loosely planned for 6mo to make sure I had the right equipment and everything. And then I took the plunge and brewed a Gandhi-Bot clone, calling it printf("Hello World"). The name was a node to my coding and computer background and also what is typically a computer programmers first application. It came out very nice and I was very happy with it.
And so begins the brewing journey.
My intention with this blog is to document each of the brews, put up the recipes and just throw out my general thoughts.
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