Sunday, June 19, 2011

Wannabe Brewers?

Old bottles from Germany
On Sunday, Sarah and I finally tried our hand at beer brewing. Last year, Sarah's dad gave us his old supplies and these bottles he brought back from Germany over 25 years ago. It will be a few days before the beer is finished, but we'll let you know how it turns out. Or, you could just come over and have some with us!

If there are any other brewers out there, we'd love to start collecting tips from you. This being our first time, we have lots to learn about the process. Our focus was actually just on getting the sanitation process right. We want to make sure that we don't have any unwanted guests growing in our beer.

Cleaning out the bottles with a bleach solution

Cleaning our tools



The brewing
The fermenting

5 comments:

  1. Sad I won't get to partake in the tasting experience, but I would LOVE to see your faces when you try it. Would you guys mind Skyping while tasting...??

    and would you mind adding ChangeOneLife's Blog to your list? (blog.changeonelife.org)

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  2. I think we could work out a Skype tasting. :) And we'll definitely add ChangeOneLife to the blog list.

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  3. Sweet!! On both accounts :)

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  4. very cool.. my boyfriend Ian brews.. if you ever have any questions, I'm sure he would be happy to help :)

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  5. Thanks JM! I'm sure we'll have questions. Once we try this batch, it'll help us know what kind of questions we need to be asking. I have a feeling that we'll have a lot of questions. :) Nice job on your first Munro, by the way!

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