Attention: This post is NGR (Not Gwen Related)
I documented our first home brew experience, which culminated today with the first taste! The most tedious thing about home brewing is how sterile everything has to be. Apparently, beer needs to ferment at the same temperature that bacteria grows, so it's really important to keep everything sterile. There's A LOT of cleaning prep work that goes into it (fortunately, my job was photographer, and not cleaner).
Rob, Justin, and Stevie - ready to brew our first beer!
We ended up using 2 different sets of directions because we couldn't decide which to follow. Not the best idea ever, next time we decided to make things a bit less complicated and choose 1 set to go with...
There was nothing very appetizing about the entire process..
Morgan was not a fan of the smell
We were just about finished when the rubber grommet fell INTO the bucket (not good because of the whole sterile thing I mentioned earlier)
**Now the beer has to ferment for 4 weeks.**
Time to bottle the beer and let it sit for another week to carbonate.
Fast forward to today: The moment of truth has arrived!!!
This photo gives you an idea how much we trusted the beer that we made - we had a lot of back up, just in case:
The poor, and first taste:
Holy crap, it's actually GOOD!!
A definite success! A new business venture? hmmm...... :)
OK, twist my arm... here's a pic of Morgan holding Gwen. It was too cute to resist posting
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