End of "Day One"

It is almost 10pm and we are finally done with the day's work. The "Relax, Have A Homebrew" mantra in the book definitely came in handy. Although the steps aren't necessarily complicated, it's hard not to get anxious about following them correctly. The most stressful part about it was working in our tiny kitchen - we kept bumping into each other and running out of counter space. Willie didn't seem to be bothered by it, but I found the heat and smell of the boiling wort to be a bit too much at times. We kept the kitchen door closed and it felt like a thick fog of beer funk took over the house. Cue "Thriller" and the beer zombies.

Some notes: Once in the carboy the color can be *roughly* described as "18 degrees srm" which to me means like a deep copper/light brown with lighter colored sediment in the bottom third. The OG (original gravity) of the wort (after the yeast was pitched) was 1.061, or "sixteen degrees balling" heehee.



Oh and neat headline stolen from fark.com:

British brewery set to brew first authentic batch of India Pale Ale in 200 years by making it aboard a ship in the North Sea