Brewing is a joint effort between my husband, Dave, and me. He started brewing before I did, but I would either help or watch and gradually got into it myself. Who knew that so many years later, I’d get so into brewing that I’d end up writing for Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®?
I can’t take much credit for the system itself—Dave is pretty amazing and came up with the whole thing on his own and built it in an afternoon. I had no idea what he was even doing. He called me into the garage, said something like, “Behold!” took a sip of his beer, and I couldn’t do much else but blink in astonishment.
Here’s what we’ve got…