GBCB Brewing welcomes a new addition to the family!

This Sunday Miyuki and I were walking from her house to the station in Toyohashi. It is about a 20 minute walk and takes us past a hair cutting place. I wouldn't mention it except that two weeks earlier I had noticed a large glass carboy sitting right inside the front window. I had snapped some pictures of it with my cell camera. Miyuki vaguely knew of the place.

Anyway, fast forward to this past Sunday. We are walking past the shop and I am like, "Hey, there is that carboy I was telling you about." Miyuki looks in the window and is like, "Yeah, it's carboy." Then I say, "the shop is open, let's ask about it." So we ask about it. I open the door and say 'sumimasen' and then Miyuki does the talking because my Japanese is non-existent. The hair cutting lady is like, "Yeah, it is an antique and no it is not for sale. Why do you ask about it?" Miyuki says, "He really likes it." Then the lady GIVES me the fermentor. How awesome is that?

I have been wanting a glass fermentor in Japan for a while. It is hard to justify the paying $120 for something you can get for $20 in America. Now it is not a problem. Now, the only problem is fashioning a rubber plug for the fermentor out of a bathtub stopper.