In early November, on the day that Jeannette was to head back to Ottawa, I started my first batch of home brew beer. My plan, in addition to creating cheap beer, was to have a project I could work on while Jeannette was away.
At least to some extent I failed on both fronts. Firstly, the home-brewing process turned out to be surprisingly labour free. Aside from a little mixing, and then some bottling, there was practically nothing to do but wait. And secondly, the beer wasn't all that great. I find that it tends to give me pretty bad hangovers and it doesn't taste particularly good (though I can get it down without too much effort).
Now that it's been about five and a half months since that first batch and I've had time to consume most of the beer (there are only four bottles left) and think about my technique I recently decided to give home-brewing another shot.
A few days ago I picked up a new kit (the flavour was 'cerveza') and threw everything in the bucket as directed. Of course, almost as soon as I started I had the sense that the yeast wasn't working quite as expected. Actually, it didn't seem to be working at all.
By the time I finally came to the conclusion that the yeast I had obtained with the kind was useless it was late on Sunday night and I thought that my only option would be to buy an additional kit at a grocery store and use that yeast (and I will buy a single pack of yeast to use with the leftover parts of this kit). So after a four grocery store hunt that's what I did.
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So now that I'm a few days in the process of beer making is decidedly underway.
Because I bought what I hope is a higher quality kit and because I'm using the right kind of sugar this time I'm hoping that the product I end up with in a few weeks is a fair bit better than the first time around. Otherwise I'll probably end up taking another 5 and a half months to make my way through this 23 litres of beer.
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