I realized it’s been awhile since my last post. And since then the brewing bug really hit me. My first batch is still fermenting, but I was reading homebrew sites and getting really excited about future batches. So I started another!
I brewed a honey wheat ale on my day off last week. It’ll be done around the same time as the first one (perhaps a week later). So far all seems to be well with it. Both of the batches are just sitting around and fermenting these days, so I don’t have much to do.
But while I shopped for those ingredients, I also picked up what I need to make a blonde ale and to try a different version of a honey wheat ale. So those will be brewing next.
This was also the first time I bought all my grains. It was a fun experience. The homebrew store has a whole grain room full of bins of malt. So I told the guy what I wanted and he measured it out and ran it through the crusher. I think Grandpa Korte would have been impressed with my budding grain knowledge. It also sparked a great idea for using the old family farm … perhaps we could turn it into a brewery? Grow the grains and brew them onsite? Just an idea.
Tonight I’m soaking used beer bottles to remove the labels. I read that OxiClean is excellent for this. So far so good. I’ve had them soaking about two hours, and all the labels are off. A few of them already have all the residue off as well!
