Who's with me? I will work around people's schedules. I work until 11 AM but considering I will have to be up and at work by 4, a nap would be prudent before I start brewing. When is the earliest people think they can show up? I have already purchased the supplies.

That brings me to my next point, money. No, I will not charge for classes, nor will I charge for beer. Morally I can't charge for the former and legally I can't charge for the latter. But brewing beer isn't a cheap hobby. If I only brewed for myself, I'd be saving money by home brewing, but brewing for others get's costly. If I wasn't already trying to start a home business making soap I wouldn't so much mind but I was thinking... Voluntary donations, not even in exchange for beer, but if you come over, and you have some, and you like it, drop a few bucks in a jar, which will go right back into making more beer to share with others. As you know we throw some swinging parties at our house, and a few bucks next time you come to one of those wouldn't go amiss. I would NEVER put a door charge to my beer tastings or to our get togethers, nor would I even bat an eye at someone, if not most people, attending without crossing my palm, but I'm gonna leave it open to people. I do, after all, work at a minimum wage job. If your situation is such that you want to attend and can't afford a few dollars that's totally fine, I know, I've been there. I think I'm rambling at this point, but if I come even half way towards breaking even I'd be happy.

This beer I've decided to make, is a Belgian style Imperial India Pale Ale. I've spared no expense on this batch, buying eight pounds of light malt extract, a pound of "candi sugar," four ounces of leaf hops (Zeus and Palisade), toasted oak cubes, and the finest Belgian abbey style yeast I could find. I will try and keep that strain of yeast going since it's prohibitively expensive. It came to $60 to make five gallons, but it should be a very potent beer. Thank you for all the suggestions on what I should brew.