Good People Brewing

Basically I'm spending my day today waiting for Jason Malone, the brewer at Good People Brewing Co. to shoot me a call so we can get an interview going. His little seven-barrel brewery out of Birmingham Ala. is the subject of my next From The Source article for BeerAdvocate Magazine. As I'm waiting, I'm periodically reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and formulating a recipe for my next homebrew.

I was fortunate enough to get some 20-odd pounds of 2-row grain from my buddy Andris at Blue Hills Brewery the other day when I brought by some of my California Common and an IPA for trade. I'm not sure what I will brew, as I traded some of my labor for a few ounces of hops, but didn't measure them out and grabbed far fewer than the six ounces I wanted to use for another IPA. This leaves me in a slight predicament, as I will now head to the brewshop out in Cambridge for some extra hops (and some more yeast, as I don't trust the sludge that I've had in my fridge for a couple of months), but if I'm going to the brewshop I might as well add in some specialty grains as well. And since I'm going to add in specialty grains, I'm thinking I might as well brew that porter I have been wanting to brew lately.

I suppose these are all good dilemmas to have. While I wait for Mr. Malone to call me, I'll settle down with Michigan St. vs. Tennessee. This tournament is proving to be fantastic this year.

Cheers