We went to watch Litterbug last night at Pat’s pub on hastings, which is the band amelia is part of.

it was a pretty good show, and we had fun. i thought it was kind of a waste being on a thursday, but thats my own preference.
the pub had a brewery, which was highly disappointing. it hurt to drink their beer. i find it a real shame that a place has a nice brewery set up, and it goes to total waste. but i digress.

the most ridiculous part of the night, was alvins iron on fanny pack.
bask in its glory.

So. here are the hops we are using in one batch of IPA.

that giant ball of hop pellets are the bittering hops. its completely crazy.

so, for those who dont know the story. theres a guy named clive at dan’s work. dan would bring him IPA’s (notoriously known for their hoppieness (and dan makes a good ipa)) and clive would try them. and he would say, you know dan, theres something missing. ohh, yeah, its HOPS. this went on a few times, every time the beer becoming a little more bitter.

so finally, it escalated to this. dan goes, Screw you clive, and went overboard and made the first batch of “Screw you clive IPA” which had 4x the amount of hops that a normal ipa ever would. well, this beer was met with much enthusiasm by clive, and went down in the history books as a great success in his mind.

Well, that first batch was a long time ago with a completely different brewery set up. So, using our new double batch advantage, and all our brewing knowledge, dan and i are now trying to completely destroy the bitterness of that last IPA, with our latest brew.

all i have to say, is that i dont think it will be drinkable by mere mortal men. dan foolishly tasted some of the wort after we measured the specific gravity, and i thought we may have lost him. he had to sit down, and the last time i saw that look on his face of pure terror was when he decided that little hot pepper at the Vietnamese pho restaurant couldnt be that hot, could it?

thats neither here or there, but we have great dreams of us taking over the world by giving samples of beer to unsuspecting victims. wait, hold on, i wasn’t supposed to share that part.

Anyways, when we added the hops to the boiling kettle, it turned the beer green.

we cant wait till a few weeks when this beer is done. its going to be epic.