Sunday, November 22, 2009

Homemade beer

This stuff has quite a head!

Uncle Collin's brewing gene had been tugging at me, so last summer I bought a 3 gallon carboy and eventually figured the rest out: Yorkshire Bitter mix, airlock, pitching yeast, and so forth. I sterilized everything with hydrogen peroxide, and used fair trade sugar instead of corn sugar, and despite all that the result has been drinkable. It helps that we don't drink much beer so wouldn't necessarily know good from bad. Made about 30 bottles, and most weekends we drink one.

Thanks, Paige, for blog-posting inspiration!