Guess what’s happening in the KERF household today for the first time in about 6 months…
Matt got up at 5:30 to start brewing. I roused at 7:30
This amazing mess of a breakfast was enjoyed amongst the smells of hops and malted barley
Lets see if I can remember the mix:
- Yogurt (maybe 1/2 a cup?)
- Pumpkin (~1/3 cup)
- 2 tbsp raw oats
- 1/2 chopped apple
- 1/4 banana
- Chia seeds
- 2 dried figs
- CROFTER’s NORTH AMERICA!! ( <– found on sale at Integral Yoga)
- Coconut butter magic shell
- Nuttzo blob
- Earnest Foods Granola Plank
Warm coffee was extra delicious today!
I was very unproductive yesterday, so I’m hoping today I can focus.
That is unless the smell of the brewing makes me tipsy!
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My husband is making wine at our place. We’re not big beer drinkers
My fiancee desperately wants to start brewing, but hasn’t done the research on how to start up yet. Seems like such a fun hobby!
Laura
I love that Matt brews beer! Teh most my mum would brew is tea
Oh exciting! I would love some homemade beer. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Mmm I’d love if my BF made homebrewed beer!! Crofter’s Superfruit spreads are the best…I have a jar of North America in my pantry right now, actually!
I love brewing our own beer… or should I say I love that my husband does? We actually just completed our first batch of wine! The hard part with the wine is it needs to be stored for 2 more months… so it takes so much longer than beer!
haha fun! my husband would love that.
Beer. Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!
Great oats. I am really liking pumpkin in my oats these days
That yogurt mess looks delicious.
My bro in law brews his own beer and it is so funny to watch him because he is just so excited about it. I’m sure Matt is the same way!
You brewed bear this morning, I baked bread at 5.30AM
I hope to have a productive day too
Your breakfast looks festive, like a circus.
Jenn
I need to start brewing some gluten free beer for my husband. We started talking about that about a month ago and I need to get to researching that more. Good luck on being productive today…hopefully I will be able to do the same!
That’s really cool that Matt brews his own beer!
Your breakfast looks so tasty and colorful! YUM! Have a great day Kath.
Whoa. That breakfast bowl looks amazing!
I love hearing about homebrewers – what kind is he making?
My boyfriend and our old roommate spent an evening brewing beer several months ago (probably six months ago too!), and the yeasty, hoppy smell filled the house. I love made from scratch projects.
just read this article about figs today:
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/strange-symbiosis-the-fig-and-the-wasp-126960?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apartmenttherapy%2Fthekitchn+%28The+Kitchn%29
it’s blowing my mind!!!
Oh gosh………………………..
Ugh! I can’t decide if that changes my opinion on figs.
Also, can vegetarians eat figs?!
My dad has brewed a couple of his own batches. The process doesn’t smell good but the end product is delicious! His best is one that tastes like Sam Adams Winter.
Yum, your breakfast looks great. I just opened my first can of pumpkin this year for today’s breakfast: pumpking overnight oats
My husband recently started brewing his own beer. Do you know where Matt bought the big “brew pot”? Did it come with the spout already on or did he add it? (please excuse my non-technical vocabulary) Thanks!
The pot is from morebeer.com, my personal favorite online homebrew site. It’s one of their “Heavy Duty Brew Kettles,” in the 8 gallon size. It’s definitely nice that it comes with a ball valve… no more lifting and dumping. Eventually I’ll be buying two 15 gallon pots as well, to make brewing even easier.
I highly recommend morebeer… free shipping if you buy $59 or more, and they really treat you well. Great products too!
It’s my husband’s birthday today and he is getting a new glass carboy and a kit for oatmeal stout. Yeah for homebrewing!
We were able to help with another couple’s brewing a few weeks ago– so much fun! Will this be for a pumpkin ale, perhaps?!
with your title, I thought you were actually going to incorporate beer INTO the oats – now THAT would be a true first!
What a process, I miss the days of waking up to my dad brewing his own beer. We kids use to love helping him! Hope you have a productive day and Matt has some great results!
That bowl of EVERYTHINGNESS looks amazingly delicious!
WOW that breakfast sounds incredible!!!
That oatmeal looks delicious.
I love the Crofter’s spread – the North America is my favorite!
Have a great day!
Hooray! Beer!!! I can’t believe he got up at 5:30 to start – now the weeks of waiting begins…may be good timing for beer bread by the time it’s ready
we haven’t brewed in FOREVER here! i think i need to get the hubby and his friends to make a good, dark, hazelnutty beer for Christmas time
what a delicious looking mess! my dad used to make wine in our basement and there were massive vats of it everywhere. matt is certainly keen about it if he’s getting up at 5:30 in the morning to start!
You have got me hooked on Crofters! I am currently working my way through a jar of Asia and I love it!
I’ll be curious to see if that breakfast holds you over for very long…..only 2 Tbsp oats!
yeah but lots of other stuff!!
haha i’m not one for beer first thing in the morning, but your oats look great:-)
Can’t wait to see what he “brews.” Definitly sets the tone for fall by bringing to mind cauldrons and potions. Love it!
That is so cool that Matt brews beer. My cousin does, although I’ve never tried his.
Wait….is Crofter’s North America a special item? They have tons of that at my local Whole Foods. Let me know if you need me to bring some down to Cville
I found it here – it’s just normally more expensive
My dad used to do home-brewing. I thought it smelled AWFUL when I was a kid.
Then he had an accident once where something exploded and flooded the room in the basement with beer and my mom cut him off after that, lol. He wasn’t allowed to do it anymore and hasn’t since. I would like to try it someday though.
My husband really wants to get into home-brewing. It seems like such fun hobby.
Chris is brewing this weekend! Yay
Love messy breakfast bowls! Crofters has been on sale numerous times at Whole Foods but whenever I’m at the store I always forget which one you said was the best! I’m currently using up S. America and it was just ok. I’ll have to catch another sale and remember N. America! 
I have been getting some of their plain flavors, which are really good too!
so awesome! i don’t know if i will ever venture further in than “beer bread” but hey, we’ll see! sounds awesome!
mmm…beer. We’ve never made beer. My brother-in-law used to make beer (he still might). I remember my MIL (also his MIL) telling us that he wanted to make raspberry beer, and could he have some from her bushes? Yes, but he wanted a gallon – she said “pick them yourself!”
My parents used to make elderberry wine. Living in Santa Barbara, I just buy wine.
That oatmeal looks awesome. It’s getting to be oatmeal time again. Actually, we’ve had an unseasonably cold summer here. Foggy and 50′s every morning. So oatmeal season never really left. But I only ever make your banana whipped oats, and I’m out of bananas.
Steve is making a pumpkin beer from the pumpkins in our garden this week What is Matt brewing? Hopefully I will be home to taste it this year
I love that you and Matt brew your own beer. My BF would be totally into it.
I’m opposite of your right now – yesterday I was very productive so today I’m taking it easy. Just catching up on some blogs.
Your oats look phenomenal compared to my boring ol’ bowl of cereal
Hope you are productive today!
I wish my husband made beer
Whoa that is so cool that Matt is brewing beer. I remember you saying that he was into that a long time ago.
I like how that breakfast is such a mish mash of stuff!
That looks like a delicious breakfast mess!
That bowl looks like a littlbe bit af everything- perfect way to start the day
Hope you’re productive today!
How exciting! Good luck on your moonshine!
Beer at 5:30am. Now that’s dedication! I can’t wait to hear about the end product!
I would love to smell that brewing process!
Your breakfast has so many good stuff, it must have tasted great!
will there be pumpkin involved?
<— jealous
My dad settled on a keg-erator instead of a brewing hobby. “Magic shell” immediately makes coconut sound appetizing to me.
new fr me thnks
My dad and his best friend used to brew their own beer when I was just a young’un. One time the wives had gone out doing lady things together while the men stayed home to brew and the kids (six, in total) ran around the house screaming and getting muddy. They were sampling their creation and not being very careful not to spill it, so the whole place smelled like a brewery, when a couple of trepid-looking young Mormon women came to the front door. I’m told that when my dad answered the door, his friend yelled “Who is it, sweetie?” and the ladies left rather quickly.
I still love the smell of hops
I vote Matt’s next contribution is a how-to-get-started on home brewing!
I love how much goes into to your breakfast bowls; it all sounds so yummy. And that brewing looks pretty high-tech. My hubby attempted brewing with a small, cheap kit he found at World Market, but he threw all the beer out. Wasn’t what he expected!
Need to show the hubby this post, hopefully it will inspire him to start making his own beer again. It’s pretty delicious when it is made at home
His method isn’t as fancy as Matt’s. My hubby uses the Mr.Beer system. My Grandpa gave it to him 
that yogurt bowl looks delish!!
we made Pumpkin Ale two weekends ago !! http://spabettie.com/2010/09/07/pumpkin-ale/ this weekend it goes into secondary, then one more week we bottle!!
Anything with coconut milk and pumpkin is an A in my book.
Wish we lived closer — we could use more brew buddies!!!
I love a good bowl of random mixes.
I do like beer, but I think I’d prefer your yogurty oaty breakfast first thing in the morning