Today we brewed a beer and a mead. The beer is a clone of a Thai beer called Singha that Shas and I had quite a lot of on our honey moon in Thailand. The mead is a recipe that Berg came up with and just had to try. It consists of nothing but pineapples, honey and yeast. Berg doesn't even like pineapple, but he just had to do this recipe. So we turned on the tunes and got to work. First thing to do was skin an slice up the pineapples, all 11 of them. This went into the juicer. While that was going on the grains for the beer where milled and placed in a muslin sack, and the water was brought up to temp. We spent the afternoon moving back and forth between the brews.

We recently bottled our variation of a Belgian Wheat ale, in the style of a Blue Moon. The difference being, we used some Cara-Cara oranges that were dehydrated in house. Berg had been wanting to do this beer for about a year. Shas was looking for the next thing to brew, thinking about a wine or a mead. That's when I suggested doing something with a shorter leadtime, a beer maybe. Berg remembered the dehydrated oranges that he had and said, "how about a Blue Moon style beer using my oranges as part of the recipe?" It sounded like a great idea, so we bought the ingredients and fired up the kettle.