My brothers 21st... das boot and homebrew

Hi guys and girls

So today a tale about a good old kiwi Tradition.... the 21st birthday. Saturday was my little brother Logan's 21st birthday party, actually birthday was Sunday September 11th (there was an inappropriate birthday cake which I will not show pictures of... thanks mum haha). Now being the good big brother I am I made sure that proper 21st protocol was adhered to. So today I shall talk about Logan's 21st birthday and my own one over 6 years ago.

Protocol number 1 (the 1 and only): Do a yard glass or some variation

Both Logan's and mine had some variation. Logan had gone out and got a yard glass mainly out of peer pressure I think. But for my gift I got him a 2.4 liter Glass boot with 21st written on the side of it. So he ended up using my one because it looked cooler :) Logan did awesomely. I was a proud big brother. Proud that he did it in less than 4 mins and that he fulled it was horrible export gold as he knew he would chuck it back up soon enough. But he is starting to enjoy some good beers outside of drinking out of a giant boot :)

The yard glass that Logan's mates passed around

My story is a wee bit different. Looking back I was into beer a long time before I started to drink it. I used to go to the Salvation army and get second hand beer mugs on my paper run when I was 12 years old. In keeping with that I bought my other brother Cameron a yard glass for Christmas when he has 16, I kinda knew I would get it to use it for my 21st before he would. So over the years I loaned it to mates for there 21st's. So the day of my 21st birthday I want to give it wipe down and took it out of its case and bang! cracked in my hand, blood everywhere, and was about to go out to dinner with mum before coming back for drinks with a few friends at home. Came home and Cameron had set up a 8 foot beer bong that had been set up from the top of the roof with a valve, I think he had named it BB Cooper. So 9 beers, cold, bubbly speights when down my throat in less than a minute. Did I through up, of course. Why do we do it? well because we are young and stupid and everyone like cheering on a mate and then laughing.

So I manned the BBQ on the night, everyone had a great time, it was also a good opportunity to sample around to everyone the pale ale I made for Logan. The Bob the Builder Pale Ale, named after Logan (his middle name is Robert, hence bob. He is also an apprentice builder). Most people seemed to really like it, more than the green tea pale ale, that is to be expected. Anyhow I said happy birthday to him at midnight then went to see a friend for karaoke for her birthday, you can't get good beer at karaoke but oh well, sung a lot of Bruce Springsteen amongst others, went home and prepared for my first day of work the next day.That is next post.


Till next time I leave you of a Pic of me and my friend Melissa at my movie dress up themed 21st.

Yes it looks like a ate Willy Wonka haha

Andrew