What better way to spend Independence Day than brewing up a batch of American homebrew? Not exactly an Ameican style, but hey, it’s a free country.
Myself and a couple of friends avoided the DC crowds and hung around the house yesterday to brew this batch. I got some yeast from the brewers at District Chophouse, so I was expecting this to be one of my more healthy fermentations. I was right. I was wrong, though, to think I could rotate this video to be the right direction.
So I had to make a trip to the hardware store this morning because I woke up to my room smelling like beer, very yeasty beer. When I went in with my spare carboy in hand one of the men working there almost had a heart attack thinking I was going to drop it and shatter glass all over his store. After I assured him that I had a good hold of it I got the tube and came back to put it in the active carboy. Below are some pictures from today. Forgot to take any yesterday during the actual brewing. I’ll post my recipe up here soon.
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