AHHH!!! BEER!!!

Alright, the first batch... EVER!!!... is in the primary fermenter.   Brad and i understand it may suck ass, but you know what?  eventually it will be alcoholic, and we have nice enough friends that will drink it with us anyway... and if all else fails we'll ship it up to bryce and he'll make some sort of bbq sauce out of it.  

So, here's the deal;

2 oz black patent

1 lb crystal 40

topped off w/ chocolate to 1.5 lbs

1/4 lb coffee

willamette 1oz

cascade .5oz

6.6 lbs LME Briess Sparkling Amber

1 lb golden dme

hopped w/ 1/3 of hops during boil, another 1/3 during last 10 minutes with 1 lb maltodextrin and 2 pinches of irish moss

remainder of hops pitched with 11.5 grams of yeast 

let's just say none of that measuring was entirely scientific, today is the day we see if "magic" can happen.  I was talking with Will Shelton a few weeks ago and he told me himself making beer is half magic, and half sanitation.  Well, we sanitized the shit out of stuff, now lets see some magic happen!

Buffett with not 1, but 2 t's

can't lie, since buffett read our first post, he's been barking incessantly to let me know that I spelt his name wrong.  Listen, I'm not perfect, I make mistakes, Buffett, it won't happen again.

First Day...

So it's our first day trying to make some beer... and of course Buffet ate the recipe last night.  I'm not even kidding.  I'll upload a picture later, but Brad's dog took our recipe out of a book and ate it.  Luckily... we were able to put it back together... so we may have to name it Buffet's Brown Experimental Ale or something like that, which lets face it, isn't entirely creative or awesome.

Other things of note:

-I soaked myself trying to fit a wort chiller onto the sink.  Half of me is wet, the other half is dry.  I'm like a badly cooked steak only not nearly as tasty 

-The brewhouse forgot to send a top to our fermenting bucket.  This seems a rather vital piece of equipment and all... so yeah, we need to go buy a bucket top this afternoon

-I really want a cookie right now

-Were going to celebrate  by cracking open a bottle of Ithaca TEN as soon as we actually get started

Also... how the hell does one sanitize something?  All I know is that if I get this stuff on me I may melt wicked witch style according to the label, but I suppose worse things have happened.