You should also check out their purple Sloe gin. The berries are in season around wintertime, but the gin they make with it is an excellent lighter summertime drink IMO; it's around 26% maybe, throw a couple of oz in a collins type of glass, half a lemon's juice, some fizzy water (I prefer Perrier to stuff like San Pellegrino because the carbonation is a lot sharper). It's pretty yummy. Chicks dig it too.
Last weekend, I succumbed to the persuasive power of my own suggestion. BTW, I really meant to say high highball glass, not collins. The wider mouth does affect taste, and hey, you can fit more in there, hehe.
I also sat in for almost a few hours (which was still less than half the session, I had a commitment I could not get out of) during a homebrew session for the first time in my life, I learned a lot, picked brains, took lots of notes. I just received my first brewing book, which I'll get to when I can (concurrently reading 4 books atm, with more waiting in the queue).
This was a very good bacon brown, which they were brewing that day but with some different twists, I think they were experimenting with sage, its amounts, and timing.
I think this was an IPA? It was mellower than I might have expected from them as far as hops, but IPAs are their favorite thing I think. They are three guys all from the food/beverage industry with the dream of opening a brewery in about 5 years. There is brewing going on at this place all the time, one guy tries to get over there twice a week, and the other once a week. They are doing 4 identical batches of IPAs save for exactly where they introduce hops, just to fine tune it. edit: forget it the upload is taking way too long, oh well sorry no pic for now.
Here is a Belgian Tripel, it needs tuning for sure, they haven't put much time into this kind of beer yet. I've been basically invited to come over as often as I like, so I feel pretty fortunate about that.
Here is a pic of the all grain mash tun, just starting to drain, and the first gallon or so will be used for sparging, but I'd need to check my notes to see how much more specific their technique gets.
