We'd love to go commercial in a lot of ways, but I'd be worried about it losing being something fun, and the whole start-up business is pretty scary to risk everything.
Anyway, in regards to our home-brewing, right at the start of the year our kitchen door/back door broke, which meant that for a couple of months we weren't able to brew all-grain as we hadn't got suitable ventilation to get rid of all the steam. Then real life got in the way, so other than a brew new years day, we've not done any all grain untill a few weeks ago. Unfortunately an error in reading the erecipe and tiings meant that what should have been a late addition of hops got put in at the start of the boil, along with the bittering hops. I'd hoped with it being fairly low AA EKG that it wouldn't have made too much difference, but it has. It's pretty bitter. Just about drinkable, but not good.
We've done one other brew that is currently in fermenters, and we'll hopefully bottle this today, if we have time.
And we're doing a new brew today to get back into the swing of things. We're just using cascade hops for bittering, flavour and aroma. We might even dry hop it with cascade, just to finish off hops in the freezer, as they were opened last year. I know they should be ok sealed in the freezer, but I don't think it would be a bad idea just to use things up.