San Diego loves it’s craft brews. You can tell this by the massive amounts of local micro breweries throughout the county as well as all the restaurants, bars and liquor stores that are bursting at the seams with craft beers. And where do micro breweries start? At home. I’m sure you all know someone, or at least know someone who knows someone, who has brewed beer at home. My brother and I brewed a batch back in January or so of this year and are panning for our second batch. It’s something we’re gonna keep doing it cause we love beer and it’s fairly easy to do.

I’ve been signed up with Groupon since the beginning of the year and there have been some things to come up that sound interesting, but I never purchased one. Today, I wake up and check my email and click on the “Groupon” folder I have set up. Before even clicking on today’s email I got super excited and couldn’t wait to read it because the subject line was “Half Off Introductory Brewing Class for Two.” Even though Jordan and I have only brewed one beer that came out pretty good, we still like to get pointers and see how others brew to see if the already simple process can get ever easier. I forwarded the email to him as soon as I could and almost right away he hits back with, “Let’s do it.” We purchase the Groupon and success, our first ever use of the service was going to be perfecting the art of brewing beer. At 9am when I took the screen grab above there were 276 people who had purchased this deal as well, and 40 minutes later that number had jumped to 375. People LOVE beer and beer coming out of San Diego is some of the best in the US if not the world. Looks like we might be getting some more amazing beers coming our way if even a small fraction of the people who purchased today’s Groupon offer continue on with what they learn in the class and brew beer.