Sunday, June 8, 2008

Kid Friendly Home Brew!

Today we made our very first batch of home brew root beer. Eric got a home brewing kit for his birthday this year and Andrew has been after us since then to make some kid friendly brew. The batch makes 4 gallons of the stuff so hopefully it turns out tasty. We all tried the mix before it went into bottles and if you can imagine hot, flat root beer you will about have it. (YUCKY! for those of you with little imagination!)

Our batch yield


Filling recycled water bottles with the concoction.

One bottle cappin' boy!

One more very excited home brewer!

Now the hard part begins. The waiting. It takes a week to allow for the carbonation to begin. Hopefully we got the mix right (sugar to yeast) and the filling level right. If they are wrong I could have a huge mess on my hands. The bottles are sitting in the garden tub in Eric and my bathroom. Since that is where all of our home brew does it's work we are naming our little family company a "Bathtub Brew." We will let you know how they all turn out!

3 comments:

Kaleb said...

We've been making homemade ice cream, and it's amazing. I'm sure the root beer will be too. We should get together and have floats!

Little Blessings said...

Sounds like a good plan. Just let us taste if first and make sure it isn't complete swill!

Anonymous said...

We love doing the home brew. Last year for Father's Day I bought Wade a kit. Here's to hoping your root beer turns out :)