FURTHER BREWING

I'm not only passionate about beer - I'm beer obsessed! My obsession began in the late 80s with my first sip of Guinness Extra Stout at a Grateful Dead show. I was both shocked and intrigued how people could drink such bitter liquid. This beer, after all, was a lot different from the pale lagers, like Heineken, Rolling Rock, and Henry Weinhards, I was used to drinking. (For the record, I've never been able to drink the American staples of Budweiser, Miller, Coors, etc.) But I made my way through the bottle and realized that there was truly something special about these different beers I was seeing other "Dead Heads" drink, and that I needed to find out what that something was. It turned out that the guy who gave me that Guinness was a homebrewer, and being scientifically oriented, it immediately sparked my imagination….... The lure of the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Sierra Nevada, led me to relocate to Yosemite, California. It was here where "Microbrews", today..