Brewing Beer

Started another project the other night.

Brewing my own beer.

One more thing to cross off the bucket list.


My friends Chris and Utshob came over to the house and we drank beer and ate pizza and boiled water and made some beer.

First step was bringing 4 gallons of water to a boil, which took a very very long time. After that we added the amber malt and stirred while boiling for another 45 mins. After that we steeped the hops. We used 2 ounces of Fuggle hop pellets.

After steeping the hops in we had to try to bring the 4 gallons down to room temperature so that it wouldn't kill the yeast when we added it. This was the hardest part. We had the whole lot of it in my kitchen sink with cold water in the sink but it kept warming the water too quickly so we were constantly draining the sink and refilling. Using my grill thermometer we realized that even though it only felt a little warm, it was still over 100 degrees.

At around midnight we finally gave up and decided to call it a night and I planned to put the yeast in the next morning.

Yeast went in the next morning and I've been keeping an eye on it since. Last night I was surprised to find that the pressure had popped the top off the air lock. I don't think any air got into the carboy, I think it just pushed out so much air that the cap flew off. Hopefully it doesn't ruin the batch.

While we brewed the beer we watched the TERRIBLE movie Ninja Assassin. I already expected it to be terrible but it was definitely entertaining to watch it while we drank some beers and laughed. I think my favorite part was that throughout the whole movie, the ninjas killed everyone by cutting them to pieces. The only two people that they tried to kill by stabbing them through the heart, didn't die because they miraculously were born with their hearts on the wrong side. I'm pretty sure that getting stabbed through the chest/lung will still do some serious damage, regardless of where your heart is. And why did the bad guy suddenly decide to change his preferred method of murder just for the MOST important person for him to kill?

I love bad movies.

2 more weeks and we bottle the beer. Then another 2 weeks and it'll be drinkable deliciousness.