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I Brew Beer (Part 3)

Bottling Day! In case you can't tell from the picture above, I decided to name the inaugural beer batch after the dog. Specifically I named it "Professor Shelby McBarkface Nut Brown Ale." It's a mouthful, I know.

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I Brew Beer (Part 2)

Okay so beer takes time to brew. The truth is that nothing exciting has happened since my last post. I did, however, leave off with a cliff hanger as if something were going to happen. It's my marketing strategy. So where did I leave off? Oh yeah, beer in hand, in the kitchen, ready to go (Read Part 1 if you haven't yet)...

The first thing everyone told me (and everything I read about brewing beer) is that cleanliness is critical. My kit came with some packets of C-Brite cleaner, so I cleaned my fermenter, the brewpot, and the various pieces of plastic that I'd need (airlock, etc.). After feeling pretty good about the sanitation going on, I put 1.5 gallons of water in the brewpot and fired up the stove to bring it to a boil. It turns out that 1.5 gallons takes its sweet time to boil. It probably didn't help that I didn't have the cover on the brewpot, but about a half an hour later (I don't remember if it was actually that long, but it felt like it) the water finally started bubbling.

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I Brew Beer

Well its that time of year again.  You know, the time when I remember that I have a website, server space that I pay for yearly (I may or may not have just gotten the bill), and that I don't use either of them very much.  Typically my excuse is that I don't have anything going on that I feel like sharing with the entire world (or more accurately the two or three people that land on this site due to a Google search gone awry), let alone something that anyone would want to read about.  Well as a result of a Christmas gift from my lovely wife, I think I have the former concern solved - something I want to write about.  The later problem, whether anyone is interested in reading, is really none of my concern - thats your problem.  The exciting topic to which I am referring is homebrewing beer.

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