A New Year Quickly Approaches

As promised, here is a picture of our Christmas tree this year! Hope you had a joyous Christmas and I wish you a wonderful New Year! This year was my first all-out experience with trying to visit both of our families in three different towns around one holiday. Thankfully our families live in close proximity and we were able to see everyone in a somewhat orderly fashion, but I will be looking forward to the day when we have an excuse for everyone to come see us instead.

In our travels through Butte, America this holiday season we were taken to a new brewery in town named "Quarry Brewing" with its catchy slogan: "We Dig Beer". Very nice place, started by a young man who had his beginnings in homebrewing. Stop by and check it out if you are ever in town.

Speaking of beer, Sam and I have brewed three new beers in the last few months and have two more set to go soon. Sorry I failed to post on those earlier. The three currently on tap are an English Special Bitter ("Rust Remover"), a Brown Porter ("Annie Street Porter"), and an Irish Red ("Brendan's Red") which turned out more black than red but has a rich, wonderful, toasty taste (the remains of a this one are shown in the picture).