HomeBrewBeer.net is hosting this month’s Fermentation Friday, a last-Friday-of-the-month blogging event specially made for homebrew bloggers. This month’s topic: “How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace your Spring fever and channel it toward your homebrewing endeavors?”

In a way, this topic reminds me a bit of January’s Fermentation Friday topic of Brew Year’s Resolutions, but at the same time, I see the difference. The changing of the seasons can really have an impact on people, as well as every other living thing on this planet. For me, I know when the days become consistently sunny, the weather warms up — but isn’t sweat-drenchingly hot — I become crazily optimistic and happy-go-lucky. Springtime for me means evenings after work at the park, lunchtime walks to Whole Foods, and shoving my coats to the back of the closet. It’s amazing what an effect winter can have on our bodies and attitudes!

So, how does this relate to brewing? Bryon at HomeBrewBeer.net asked how we’ll embrace this newfound optimism charged from sunlight and channel it into homebrewing. I think for Ray and I, that means our beers will lighten up with the sun — I may love stouts, but nothing beats a delicious, thirst-quenching hefe on a warm day. We want to brew beers that we can sip on our balcony in the evening after dinner. And so far, we’ve already begun.

We just bottled a lovely hoppy dubbel and brewed a simple kolsch-style beer (more info on those brews to come!). On the docket for the coming months, we have brews that will tend toward slightly lower ABVs, lower SRM units, and lighter on the palette — all while remaining flavorful, of course! No “triple hops brewing” Miller Lite crap here.

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