Homebrewed Beer

A few weeks ago, we started our first batch of homebrewed beer, a Hazelnut Brown Ale. The brewing part was fun, cooking a bunch of grains outside and then adding in all the extracts, hops, etc. I don't really understand the "science" of beer making, but it smells like baking bread which is always a good thing in my book! A handled the demanding parts of the gig.

Then, yesterday, after 2 weeks fermenting in the carboy, it was ready for one week in the keg/bottles before everyone drinks it. A spent the early morning bottling and kegging, I took a few snaps before I headed out to family fun. We'd only had about four hours of sleep after driving home late on Christmas night, so there was a pretty serious napfest later in the afternoon. Beer photos:

Beer in "carboy", so blurry

Empty Cornelius keg (5-gallon)

Sleepy Andy

Carboy, again