Steer and Beer Aplenty

My birthday was a really big deal this year. Who do you know that got both a quarter of a cow and a kegerator for her birthday? Yep! You guessed it-ME! The kegerator idea was born of being offered a free, nearly-new refridgerator (thank you Willi- we still owe you a beer!). This idea was then further inspired by a sincere desire to decrease the amount of empty beer bottles in our recycling bin being scrutinized by our neighbors on recycling day. Really, a 20 liter keg isn't that much beer, and we're saving money buying in bulk, right?

The beef purchase can be blamed on the book "Omnivore's Dillemma" by Michael Pollan. I'll leave the story telling to Mr. Pollan, but I can almost guarantee that after reading this book, you too will be wanting to purchase beef from a local farmer. I suppose the other alternative would be not eating beef, but who the heck wants to do that? We were actually contemplating an entire side but I think a quarter is about all you should order for two people. All the packaged parts just barely fit in a medium-sized chest freezer. Not to mention Neil and I would be looking for his and hers high colonics after eating that much meat. Can our livers and colons stand up to this much steer and beer? We can only hope!