My husband is a homebrewer and loves to make, drink, and share beer and wine.  I don’t drink beer or wine, but I have an interest in walkable neighborhoods and community, which is where believe it or not, our interests overlap.  As I mentioned in a previous post people in my neighborhood drink, all the time, and around their kids (stick that in your cap, those opposed and indignant about the “martini playdate”–we laugh at that term here–it isn’t sufficient in scope to characterize what happens, “neighborhood wide drinking-fest” would be more accurate–someone (out of about 50 people) is always however, sober to drive in case of emergency)–It takes a village allright.

My husband and I have been trying to work on a portable beer tap that we can wheel around the neighborhood from park to park, party to party, house to house.  Most of the “portable” kegs on the market are *Ehem* too small for our neighborhood of at least 50-100 people we see during the summer every weekend, and others are refrigerators with wheels, but also with a power cord.  So we are in the process of designing and building our own from a wheely trashcan, pipes, and a tap, guess we could call it “The Pedestrian Keggerator–a portable keg large enough for new urbanist neighborhoods”.

The actual best place we’ve found for the brewing of the beer is on our front sidewalk.  This involves a gigantic metal kettle and a propane burner.  We sit on the porch while it brews and enjoy speculating what people who are driving through the neighborhood looking at houses must think **strains of banjo music playing–you know the tune****