Eric has been brewing beer at home since we lived in Ohio, but within the last few months he's become more serious about it. It's like cooking for him- experimenting with ingredients and adjusting recipes.
A few weeks ago he made a Stout {accidentally}, but it turned out really well so he got some more ingredients and made a Pale Ale {what he intended in the first batch} and the recipe was actually based on a the Pale Ale that Great Lakes Brewing makes back home.
I didn't get pictures of the other brewing events because the smell is pretty awful, and I usually run for the mall when Eric says he's going to brew. I happened to be home for the bottling this time, so I snapped some pictures of the process {doesn't smell as bad as brewing, trust me!} The beer will sit in the bottles to carbonate for about 2 weeks and then it'll be ready to drink!
I'll try to take pictures of the brewing process next time Eric does it, or maybe I'll just leave the camera out for him and I'll head to Cherry Creek Mall!
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| Eric bottling all the beer from the bucket. Bottling the beer allows it to carbonate so it doesn't taste flat and awful. |
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| The capper and caps for the non-flip top bottles. |
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| The bottles that I got to cap! I did well- they all sealed! |
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| This is the left over goop that gets filtered out before the beer goes to the bucket for bottling. |
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