Beer!
Mon Oct 3 2005 07:49 MDT #Last night at 2am I got up -- and noticed I had primary fermentation !!!!! Yipeee!!
I had scary first 24 hours with no noticable fermentation going on - and I was worried I'd have to pitch (use) my only other yeast, to the beer to go. But over the course of yesterday , using a mini heater I got the temp of the closet into the 70-75 degree range the yeast likes (from the mid 60's that the closet likes). And now it's a go!
This is a big deal 'cause 1) it's y first batch ever. 2) Due to it being my first batch ever I made some mistakes on Saturday during the brewing, and it took like 10 hours. Admittedly we spent a couple of those hours in Santa Fe waiting for 3 gallons of water to cool from boiling to room temp. - so they weren't all that hard hours. But there where a lot of them :)
And now it's looking like we're past the first hurdle. In a couple of days I'll have to decide on wheather to rack the beer. And then there will be bottle day in 2-3 weeks depending on the racking, or not. And the tasting will be in 3-5 :)
