A couple days ago I got a big box on the doorstep. I was very excited. The box contained a Mr. Beer introduction to homebrewing kit.

My fiance and I are avid homebrewers, and we appreciate the thoughtfulness of the gift. I understand Mr. Beer kits are not exactly cheap.

We are using the gift to encourage one of our less-experienced friends to begin homebrewing, so it will be fun to help a friend embark on a new hobby.

A Mr. Beer kit comes with pre-hopped malt extract, a 2 gallon plastic fermenter, bottles and dry yeast.

At my home, we have 3 5-gallon fermenters, we are culturing our own yeast strain, we usually do all-grain recipes (that we write ourselves) and we have 3 kegs in our dedicated beer refrigerator (kegerator) in the garage.

The gift was very nice, and I'm glad I participated in Arbitrary Day. I look forward to helping our friend learn more about homebrewing with this gift.

Thank you Santa!