Youre coming to Minnesota? What brewery (strictly out of curiosity promise) I live in Wisconsin but I am Minnesota everywhere else. lived there up until june this year. I grew up a block from Hamms brewery in Saint Paul. They used to have a pump outside where you could bring milk jugs and get free spring water. Best of luck with your meeting.
Thanks, the meeting will be a few weeks out yet. Hopefully it won't be a rush to get things done for Christmas season. I am meeting with Banks Brewing - they're closer to the MN/SD border, only an hour from where I live. I had a show there (Hendricks, MN) this summer so we actually stopped at the taproom and cooled off for a bit. Extremely nice people, the wife remembered us and gave me a bit of a good-natured hard time for not telling her that I make beer soaps. Sometimes I forget to sell myself when I'm on "off time". The local brewery has been really good to me, they emailed me a list of contacts at other breweries through our neck of the woods to reach out to. Keep in mind that many of these breweries are hours away from each other so it won't be a huge saturation of beer soaps in one location. I'm thinking about it. One growth spurt at a time, so I will finish up the local order first, and see what happens with the MN brewery before I move on to the next.
Soapy stuff done: Made a total of 4 batches of soap for the brewery. They doubled their initial order, so I picked up the beer on Friday and made soap Saturday and Sunday. I'm really happy with how they turned out, although the blonde (beer) turned out a bit more citrus than I desired, but the FO does fade slightly so hopefully by the time it's cured the vetiver will come through a bit more. (Blonde beers aren't known for citrus notes, but their brew does has a bright scent to it that we thought the citrus would compliment. My fault for being a bit heavy handed with the FO.)
I also made a batch of Soleseife. OMG I love this soap so much. I forgot that for this batch I wanted to switch out the dendritic salt for pink himalayan salt, but I did remember to sub the kaolin clay with french pink clay. It was so smooth and silky feeling when I cut it. I scented it with Peony FO, I'm not a fan of peony but I had enough requests to make it... but oh man, if this soap stays this silky feeling I am going to have to snag a bar for myself.
I finally got the cleansing oil made. My daughter was completely out and pretty much parked herself on top of me until I went down and did it. I made a batch for myself using half of the castor oil called for (I use Humblebee and Me's recipe, subbing in PS80 for the Olivem) and my skin seems to like that much better. I also made a batch of lip balms with a new flavor oil. Not sure if I flavored too much or if the flavor oil is too strong, but they have a really chemically taste to them. I did overshoot the measurement by 1g. Tonight I am going to see if I can fix it, although I have no idea how I'm going to get all that lip balm out of the tubes. Yeah, I think I just talked myself into scrapping them and starting over.
Tonight I am picking up a new beer at the brewery, a stout which has me so excited! Their stout is one of my favorites. I'll try not to drink it. Might have to bring a growler to bring some home for me....
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