Beer
I bring to you something different. Beer. I've been homebrewing for more than a year now. My sis and her SO bought us homebrew supplies last Christmas, basically two 6 1/2 gallon buckets, one to ferment in and one with a spigot to fill bottles with. We've added supplies since, and brewed about a beer a month from kits or recipes.
I've really fallen in love with it. It's like cooking and microbiology combined. Even the waiting for 3-4 weeks or more to find out if what you made is good I can handle. Recently I've taken to mostly making up recipes. Not always with success. The Dunkle (a dark wheat) failed to be dark enough, but it makes a nice Bavarian wheat. The recent blond beer is rather more an amber color, and thus a bit dirty dishwater blond. Yet, all the beer's been really drinkable. And we like doing it together, which is good because some of it is two person work.
Thought maybe I'd start throwing up recipes here, more for me having another record than anything else.
We're gathering beers for a possible brewing party. Have people over, grill out, let them enjoy drinking homebrew (and possible homemade non-alcoholic root beer), while we cook up a batch of beer (a Beligium wit) on the stove. This means we might have to have a few people back a month later to try the brewed beer. We have stored up some of the Bavarian Wheat, the Dirty Dishwater Blond, an almost ready Rice Ale (that Jedi has taken to calling Budweiser), and a Dubble (a dark, longer aged Belgium beer). There's also a Barleywine to sample since we have very little of it.
For one last beer I want to make a porter with leftover supplies. I have a bit of amber and pale malt extract, some black malt (which smells and tastes like coffee) for flavor and color. I figure add some honey and honey malt to make it sweeter and maltier, and mellow out the coffee flavor since I have no chocolate malt to add. Then use leftover hops, and we have a dry ale yeast that would work. It's a bit of an empty the pantry beer (sometime I actually like to do with cooking).
It might be another fail. It's likely to not come out quite as expected. Jedi might hate it as it's a dark beer. I might be drinking it for the next 6 months. My guess, it'll still taste good enough to get drunk.
In other news, Novel #4 is up to 55K as of lunch writing time.
I've really fallen in love with it. It's like cooking and microbiology combined. Even the waiting for 3-4 weeks or more to find out if what you made is good I can handle. Recently I've taken to mostly making up recipes. Not always with success. The Dunkle (a dark wheat) failed to be dark enough, but it makes a nice Bavarian wheat. The recent blond beer is rather more an amber color, and thus a bit dirty dishwater blond. Yet, all the beer's been really drinkable. And we like doing it together, which is good because some of it is two person work.
Thought maybe I'd start throwing up recipes here, more for me having another record than anything else.
We're gathering beers for a possible brewing party. Have people over, grill out, let them enjoy drinking homebrew (and possible homemade non-alcoholic root beer), while we cook up a batch of beer (a Beligium wit) on the stove. This means we might have to have a few people back a month later to try the brewed beer. We have stored up some of the Bavarian Wheat, the Dirty Dishwater Blond, an almost ready Rice Ale (that Jedi has taken to calling Budweiser), and a Dubble (a dark, longer aged Belgium beer). There's also a Barleywine to sample since we have very little of it.
For one last beer I want to make a porter with leftover supplies. I have a bit of amber and pale malt extract, some black malt (which smells and tastes like coffee) for flavor and color. I figure add some honey and honey malt to make it sweeter and maltier, and mellow out the coffee flavor since I have no chocolate malt to add. Then use leftover hops, and we have a dry ale yeast that would work. It's a bit of an empty the pantry beer (sometime I actually like to do with cooking).
It might be another fail. It's likely to not come out quite as expected. Jedi might hate it as it's a dark beer. I might be drinking it for the next 6 months. My guess, it'll still taste good enough to get drunk.
In other news, Novel #4 is up to 55K as of lunch writing time.