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Hey kids, I've been meaning to write for a few days now, as I've finished fixin up the house and put it up for sale on Tuesday. The house looks pretty damn good if I do say so myself, and appearantly someone else thinks so too. This evening, Thursday evening, we agreed on a sale price for our house. The close date is April 14th, so now we just need to find a new house before we are homeless.

I'm a slacker, slacker, slacker, slacker, slacker. No excuses, let's see what has been going on. Craft Beer Radio started off gang busters and it is pretty popular, We have around 1600 listeners, and it does take a lot of time to prep, record, process, and post each show, but hey, no excuses.I've been taking classes in preperation for the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) Test. The test is coming up in a few weeks, I'm not too worried about the test, the main reason I took the classes was to learn more about beer so I could put on a better show.

Yesterday was the Pennsylvania Microbrewers Festival, held by Pennsylvania Brewing Company in Pittsburgh PA. It’s always a great event, this year there were 28 breweries attending. I was able to help out Scott Smith from East End Brewing Company, pouring samples and answering questions.

Greg Weiss and I have started a podcast about beer. Check out Craft Beer Radio and let me know what you think.

I'll be working the East End Brewing table during the 8-11 session. Stop by and say hello.

Last week I was told of a guy who was getting out of brewing and he was selling all of his old equipment. He had a lot of equipment and it was a lot of the things that I needed if I wanted to expand my brewing to all-grain and kegging. It was a great price and I just couldn’t pass it up. The brewing I had been doing in the past was extract brewing, that’s kind of like buying pie dough at the store and making a pie, with all grain brewing it would be like making the dough from scratch.

Woohoo! Got 2 bottles of this years Vertical Epic. I'll drink one shortly, and will enjoy the other around Christmas 2012. There are 3 more bottles at D's

Yippee, It's right around the corner!

Now that spring is here I have finally been motivated to go shoot some photos. Take a look at the photoblog and let me know what you think.I can't deside if I like the near focus, or far focus, of this shot better, which do you like?

Last night I actually did something blog worthy. I had a meet the brewer dinner with Sam Calagione the Brewer from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Sam wrote a book Brewing up a Business and kicked off the book tour in Pittsburgh last night.