Picked up ingredients for 3 batches at the LHBS. Had a fun experience in the process.
The store is pretty much self service. There's a small room behind the main retail space which has plastic bins of malt stacked to the ceiling, a table with a scale, and a MM3 in one corner. Weigh the grain, mill the grain, write the type and amount on the bag with a Sharpie, take it up front to pay. Just outside the door of this room is a 6 or 7 tap kegerator, and across from that is a desk where the owner's home-schooled son does his schoolwork. The boy is about 8, maybe 9, and always comes in to ask if you need any help and show you the spot on the side of the hopper where you tap if the mill doesn't want to feed.
Today, I had just finished milling some 2-row and was weighing some white wheat malt when the kid stuck his head in the door and asked "Ya want a beer, or something?" I went over to the kegerator and he starts describing each brew that was on tap. He recommended the Barleywine, which the tag above the tap handle indicated was 9.8%. I told him I had to drive across town and maybe should have something a little lighter. The boy pointed to the Altbier tap and said "this is a little sweeter and maltier than a true Altbier but Dad says it's pretty good". I told him the Altbier would be fine. Junior gets a plastic cup and carefully starts to pour. He says "the first pour of the day is always a little foamy. Sorry about that" and hands me my cup of half foam, half Altbier.
The beer was pretty good and I smiled all the way home.
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