A Home Brew Journey

In anticipaton of my first batch of home brew being ready for next weekend 13/03/10 I thought a wee poker/beer night might be in order, so I went and got a poker set with poker chips and felt the whole shooting match.

Unfortunatly I need to work away for the next week or 2 so it means I will be away the weekend I was planning to do it. This in itself is not a great problem as it will give the beer a bit more time to mature in the barrel. The bigger problem is that I started another brew in anticipation that the barrel would be empty in time for the fermentation process to be finished so I could condidtion the 2nd brew straight away. I think that as the next brew is lager I will invest in glass bottles and a capping tool so that should be fun.

I did have a cheeky wee taster of the beer in the barrel last night (I couldnt resist) and it was not bad at all, it wasnt great but it certainly was not as bad as I was expecting it to be so fingers crossed it will only get better over the next couple of weeks.