Brew fest!

Happy birthday to my dear sweet husband. his birthday was back on March 29Th but we just got around to using his gift for the first time. I got the beer loving man his own home brewing setup. I figure what the heck I grow and can my own veggies, why cant he make and drink his own beer? What fun this has been and we still are not done. So far we have brewed and fermented and moved into the holding carboy. today we will prepare the bottles and carbonate the beer and bottle it. Few more weeks and we can taste the fruits of our labor.

Waiting for the water to boil. I think he believes if you stare at it you can will it to brew faster!

All the yummy goodness! grains and flavoring and stuff
wait for some more boiling!
Malt syrup
Now we are getting somewhere!starting to look, and smell like beer
Adding hops

Time to cool down. There is a copper spiral tube that we run cold water through and it brings the temperature of the brewing beer (around 160 degrees) down to around 85 degrees. Looks kinda like a weird science project

now we ferment!