HoneyMoon Hefe
By Robert Riley

In case you didn't hear, the wedding was a dream come true. The colors were exploding, the weather was lovely, and yes, the beer was outstanding. With a rainbow of beer to choose from, we told everyone to find one they liked and to keep drinking.

About a third of our guest arrived on thursday and took us up on our challenge. They literally proceeded to drink the living daylights out of our supply. Seems everytime I turned around some one was either tilting back one or filling up one. I was a little nervous about whether we would make it through the reception on saturday but decided to hold my tongue, let everyone have their way, and make a decision on friday morning about whether any hoarding was in order.

To my surprise I hoisted the kegs on friday morning and they were much heavier than expected and we all know the condensation lines do not lie. This was a very welcome and pleasant surprise so "Drink on" was the command. The other two thirds of the party arrived friday and as you can imagine the evening was quite spirited.

Jamesen and I had a great time naming all the beers with wedding themes. This is really funny because I've never names any of my beers, yet fell right into " I do dunkel", and "Passionate Porter". The biggest "seller" was the HoneyMoon Hefe, which we served 10 gallons of. But, the first beer to dissappear was the Beer formerly known as Pow Pow's Pilsener(it had an identity crisis when it heard Pow Pow wasn't coming). Next to dissappear was the Rapturous Raspberry Wedlock Wheat.

We had so much fun we decided to do it again, in 5 years, OK maybe for our 10 year anniversary. Woosh, but does that mean we have to brew 10 kegs of beer? Oh man do I have to? OK twist my arm....

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