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Beer ceremony

megacoolmegacool
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My sister is my maid of honor and her boyfriend is performing our wedding ceremony.  He is a professor at the university here and teaches a brewing class.  My sister had the idea of us brewing a beer on our wedding day one that has to brew for a year before it is ready.  I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions. Thanks
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Re: Beer ceremony

  • aerinpegadrakaerinpegadrak member
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    If you and your FI aren't brewers as well, I wouldn't recommend it.  It's a fairly complex, multi-stage process that can take several tries before creating anything remotely drinkable.  Cooking the wort requires quite a bit of equipment and involves boiling water, plus if the beer isn't prepared in a sterile environment, it can get contaminated and spoils very quickly even if kept cold.  (This happened to DH's first attempted brew.)  Not to mention that preparing the wort can take quite a while.  None of this is really compatible with appearing in dress clothes at the front of a church.

    It's great that your officiant is into beer, but are you?  DH and I are both craft brew snobs, and while we did a unity cocktail instead of a candle, there wasn't any mention of beer in the ceremony.  However, if one of our friends or siblings incorporated beer into their wedding just because it's our thing, that would be all kinds of weird.

    If the boyfriend wants to work with you guys to create a special brew for you to drink on your anniversary, that's totally awesome and badass.  But it's simply logistically impossible to have it as part of your ceremony.
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  • trix1223trix1223 member
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    I like beer.  I like trying different kinds of beers.  I like microbrewed beer.  I think beer in a wedding ceremony is weird.  Sorry.  Beer is awesome at a reception.  It's not awesome in a ceremony.
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  • Ashes_3Ashes_3 member
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    I think it is a good idea, but if you are going to brew it yourselves, know that it is tricky!
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