>There’s an odd sort of bubbling/gurgling sound from my kitchen every couple of minutes. It took me a while to get used to last night, as it kept waking me up just when I was about to slumber away to Dreamland.
It’s not my plumbing that’s the issue, though. Last night I started my first attempt at making home made beer. I think I’ve mentioned that we have a rather rampant amount of hop in the garden, and as it’s quite a pretty plant I figured we could keep it and try to make it into something useful as well as pretty.
Mind you, this first attempt is not with any home-grown ingredients as I wasn’t up there in late autumn when the hop flowers were ripe for picking, so it’s just a brew kit off the internet, but I figured it would be nice to try it and perhaps get a feel of how the process works and should look. So far it’s really intriguing to see the fermentation working it’s strange wonders and I look forward to finding out if the result will be drinkable.
As far as I’ve read, though, these ready-made kits should be quite fool proof, and the instructions are quite plain and simple. I’m hoping this will be an easy success, and then I can always take a more adventurous route if I decide to do this again.
So far, though, it’s a bit like being a child and watching a bowl of tadpoles that you’ve cought in a local pond, terribly fascinating and somehow a source of joy because it’s your little project. Not unlike a garden, really.
>Beer Making=Awesome!You'll have to invite me over when it's ready. 😛
>It's giving me a lot of satisfaction and entertainment; I literally have to force myself not to run into the kitchen and check on it every 10 minutes! And the best part is, it's wonderfully de-stressing, since once you've set it off you have to just wait for about 10 days before turning the container on it's side for tapping. Then you leave it in the container for another week or so for sediments to settle and THEN you tap it. And then you wait a few more weeks and then you can actually drink it. -So if nothing else, with my capacity being just over 2 gallons, this is also a sure-fire way to prevent alcoholism, as I will really be spending most of a month on producing twenty 500ml bottles of beer. Clearly this will be a great deterrent from binge drinking the home brew!
>I've always been afraid to try something like that. Or maybe 'afraid' is just code for 'lazy' lol
>What a wonderful winter project!
>Very nice project! I hope it comes up well and tasty.
>cheers!