What's Brewing?

I've been gone for awhile.  Gone from the daily grid of life.  Gone became life has continued to through curve balls in my direction. It started a year and a half ago with the pandemic, a collective curve ball we all had to face.  The pandemic exposed so much about our mass culture: social injustice, our racial biases, a country divide.   We all limped along.  Trying to do our best. Trying to stand with and for those that needed our help the most... of course keeping six feet distance.  Recently, I was thrown another curve ball that hit me directly...

As on any brew day, we have carboys of beer, and a CRAPLOAD of spent grain.  Spent grain is the grain bi-product of the beer process, and it CAN produce a lot of waste.  Many brewers try use it in different ways to keep it out of the landfill. We use spent grain in our soaps. But today, I made it into doggy treats. I used the Deschutes Brewery doggie treat recipe that you see below.  Ingredients: 4 C spent grain from your local brewery or homebrewer 2 C flour 2 large eggs 1 C natural peanut butter Directions: Blend...

Wow, what a year.  With a pandemic, a call for social justice reforms, and a presidential election, you can't say 2020 was boring.   I am thankful for the people that stand on the front lines of all of this- the nurses, the teachers, the grocery store owners, the people that keep our towns and cities running. I'm thankful for the people that show us how much more work needs to be done in our country regarding social justice. Thanks to the peaceful protesters, and the people that feed them to give them the energy to keep going.  This has not ended. There is a...