In the beginning...

It started over a beer. A group of idealistic friends sitting with a cold Imperial Stout pondering what the next 25 years of their life would bring. Two beers later, the statement of a century:"We should start a REAL brewery in Spokane".

Spokane has a brewery. It used to have 1 and a half breweries. When a brewery in a neighboring city was uprooted over apparent landlord issues, this left one brewery in the Inland Northwest. There is no paucity of beer here however! Being in the Northwest means that we have access to some of the finest craft beers in the world with all of the materials for beer-making essentially growing in our backyard! Regardless, unlike Seattle and Portland, our "city-grown" beer is limited to one. Even smaller PacNW towns like Bend, Eugene, Ellensburg, Levenworth, Hood River, have one brewery each (and they are awesome). So, it's only seems logical that Spokane, the second largest city in Washington, should have at least two! One problem...we didn't know how to brew beer...

So we set a date...February 26th was Brew-day.

This is not about our first batch of beer (although there are pictures abound). This is about our second batch of beer and subsequent batches. Our first batch not only brewed into a nice little pale ale, but it also brewed an enthusiasm for beer that ignited a hobby...and better beer drinking!

So, here we go. Let the brewing begin. And the blogging. Cheers.