I have wort.

Actually, I had wort. Now, we have beer. Good beer, or, at least decent, ingestable beer. Wort is the sludge you ferment to make beer.

It took about a month, but it was worth it. Pictures below are of bottling day about halfway through the process. Wort ferments in a bucket for about two weeks, depending on the variety, then a secondary fermentation take place in the bottle for a couple weeks to carbonate. To my surprise, it turns out that beer-making with the exception of a couple nervous moments is mainly washing, waiting for things to boil, and then waiting again for them to ferment.

Siphoning from the fermenting bucket to bottling bucket in an effort to remove the yeast sludge that settled out. There was at least an inch at the bottom of the bucket.

I don’t quiet think she knows how she got roped into helping.

I capped and Elizabeth filled bottles.

The finished product.

After two very long weeks of waiting.

In other news, not much has been going on besides school and work. Elizabeth is stil running a crazy schedule, and fought off the flu. I’m doing my best to stay warm. Although when it hit forty this week after a month of nothing over ~30 I was down to a long sleeve t-shirt, woohoo? We’ve been cooking a lot. E just made her first Tiramisu, and we’ve been savoring the last couple days.  The following is the obligatory Maple picture. We’ve been practicing with the mapes not to attack anybody sitting on the floor with slobber. She’s getting better, sort of…