my dad bought one of those home brewery kits to mark the day today kids, 30 May 2004, because years from now when my career is in tatters and my family an apocolyptic vision of dysfunction and i am lying in a pool of my drunken vomit and the psychiatrist asks me how did i start my alcoholism, this would probably be it.

with the brewery kit, the cost of each bottle of beer works out to about... 70 cents. and it gets cheaper and cheaper the more i brew since the fixed cost of the kit itself is spread over. =) i'm very pleased.