A couple of them actually.  Brewing, bottling, and watching men in shiny flying armor pummel the crap out of each other.  No photos though.  Hopefully I will document the next brew session photographically as well.

I plan on brewing my second batch of the year, and my first all-grain batch in a few years.  I've put together what I think will be a decent little recipe for an Oatmeal Stout.  I tried making on once before but I tried it as an extract-based recipe, and you just can't do extract with stouts I'm thinking, especially with a stout like an Oatmeal Stout, which has a lot of adjunct grains, requiring a full mash to convert all that starch into sweet fermentable sugar. 

Also, will be bottling the brown ale I brewed 4 weeks ago.  I'm looking forward to tasting it, as I suspect it might be my best brown ale yet--and I've brewed many a damn fine brown ale in my time.

Also I have 5 bottles of Dark Lord 2008 and they're calling to me.  I know I should really save them but I CAN'T.

Last weekend John, the Organizer for the Chicago Beer Meetup group on meetup.com, stepped down as organizer.  I wasn't sure if I was the man for the job, but I am definitely the man for the beer, so I stepped up.  I am the new Organizer and I've scheduled my first event.

Chicago Beer Meetup

Those of you who know me well know that beer is something I have strong opinions about, something I know quite a bit about, and yet something I'm always willing to explore.  So I'm looking forward to tackling this.  My wife Mindy has been a member of meetup.com for a number of years now and has served as Organizer or Assistant Organizer for a number of different groups and has offered to help with advice, etc.  I'm hoping it won't be a total disaster.

So if any of you out there are Chicago-area people and interested in beer, think about joining up!  Otherwise, wish me luck.