Beer Should Be Fun

Brewing beer is fun.  Drinking beer is fun.  Selling beer for charity is fun, but trying to organize value added charity events can be stressful.  I can get a big head, and when a lot of people who know me say lots of nice things about the beer and what I'm doing, my head can get even bigger.  It's been slow to build  upon early success and expand out of my little pond into the bigger ocean.  It's kinda like dating.  When he/she calls you at first, you're all breathless and excited that he/she even noticed you.   Then a relationship starts and you get pissed off because he/she hasn't phoned you in a while and your expectations are all distorted and it isn't fun any more.  I still have high hopes for the Royston Nano Brewery, but beer wasn't more stress than fun for a while.  My plans for beer blitzkrieg just didn't materialize.  So I will work on creating a good solid foundation upon which to branch.  Some new plans may be unfolding, but they are still at the "hey, let's talk stage."

There are a lot of enthusiastic beer brewers out there, and enthusiasm and attention to detail is really all you need to brew great beer.  One of the 3 expressed goals of the RNB is to change the common usage of the term, "Nano Brewery" to mean a small scale brewery that raises money for charity.  Back in the old days, every town had a church, a butcher, a baker and a brewer.  The brewery would be a focal point for fun, and community involvement.  In this age of FB posts, Instagram and online gratification replacing actual face to face human contact, I'm hoping to bring some of that old fashioned human contact back to society.  To bring beer down to a local level.  Beer is heavy.  It shouldn't have to travel far to be consumed.  I'd love to see a network of little nano breweries brewing great beer across the land, and each one supporting some local community improvement project.  There is no reason why everyone couldn't be drinking a beer that has a positive social, community impact, each and every pint.  People like to drink beer, people like to brew beer, people like to help and support their local community.  Put it all together, make beer a vehicle for social improvement.  Hop hippies.  Watch for us.