happy homebrew!

its done (well for now). i brewed my first batch of beer on Sunday! it took a little longer than i had expected, but a little cleaner than i had expected too! it was really interesting to see and do all the steps involved in brewing beer. i tasted a little before the yeast was added, and it tastes like really sweet flat beer! i can't wait for the finished product. here are some pics that chronicle my sunday:





so now the beer is sitting in my living room fermenting. its close to being done (i think). tomorrow i'm going to transfer it into as smaller carboy which will take it off of the yeast bed and let it finish fermenting. i'll probably bottle on monday or tuesday...but there really isn' t a set amount of time, i'll bottle when its done. and hopefully it'll be ready to drink by superbowl sunday (fingers crossed)

Beer for the New Year

as you may (or may not) already know, for christmas hannah bought me a gift card to North Corner Brew Supply. Bellingham's homebrew supply shop. starting to brew my own beer is something i've wanted to do for a while now. so next weekend i am going to start my first batch. i still haven't decided what to brew, something simple (as its my first time) but something good too. so we'll see. it'd be cool to have a batch ready forthe superbowl...but we'll see. the guy down at north corner gave a one of their in house recipes, its a London Ale, it looks simple enough, but i found a brown ale recipe in the book hannah got me, so i might that instead...we'll see.
but check back next week, as i'll keep ya updated.
peace
caleb