OMG You brew your own beer?!!

So, Friday night, after my wife and daughter were asleep, I began my first ever attempt to brew my own beer. Overall, the experience went well, I think. Well, I’ll know for sure in about 5 weeks.

Turns out, I killed off the yeast when sanitizing the package. Word to the wise, don’t use hot water to sanitize yeast packages.

That’s fine though, ’cause it gave me the opportunity to pay a visit to the local homebrew store, Niagara Traditions. I pitched my new yeast package and things seem to be going very well now.

Here’s some pics for your viewing pleasure:

Until next time…

Beer n’Sausage

Howdy,

For dinner tonight, I decided to take some chicken & apple sausage I had lying around and combine it with some of the contents of the growler of Stone Arrogant Bastard sitting in my fridge. For fun, I tossed in some peppers and onions.

Mmmm… the trace of hops really brings out the apple flavor in the sausage. I’ll definitely have to make that again. Next time, I won’t reduce the beer quite so much.

Later.