November Fun

It has been a couple weeks since the last post. We have been relaxing and spending some weekends at home. For Jason's birthday we went to a homebrew beer class. We learned how to make our own beer and I bought him some things to get started. So last Saturday we decided to try it out. We made a porter. It went pretty well. It has been fermenting for the past week. We are about to switch it into a different bucket for the second fermentation process. I think we will be able to bottle it in another week.

On Jason's birthday we went to dinner at Outback and had some yummy german chocolate cake :-) He enjoyed all the cards and birthday wishes from family and friends.



We started by boiling 1 1/2 gallons of water
and added the grains. You but them in this little
sack to boil them in the water.



Here was our set up on the stove.

Jason added the grains.

Then we boiled them for 30 minutes.



Then after you boil the grains you take
them out and add the liquid malt extract.

And the powder malt....

And the hops

Then boil for 30 more minutes.

Then you have to put it in a fermenting
bucket and cool it off to 70 degrees
as fast as possible. Lucky for us it
started to snow and we could use that to
help cool it off.

Add the yeast.



And shake for 5 minutes



Here is the beginning of the 4 days of
snow and cold.















After we were done making the beer we went to the airport to pick up Heather for her visit in Idaho :-)