We are terrible bloggers, but we're doing pretty well as brewers.

We haven't posted often enough at all.

We'll work on that.

Here's what we've been up to lately.

Over Columbus Day weekend, we had a get together with friends. We shared our hobby with them, for the first time, and things were excellent. We got some pretty good feedback, as we have from pretty much everyone who has tasted one of our beers.

We also brewed a new beer. Because Lauren will be away for the Thanksgiving holiday, and because she loathes IPAs, Dana and I decided to brew just that, an India Pale Ale. We boiled our hops for 60 minutes - the recipe called for 45 minutes, I pushed for twice that, to no avail. We added some steamed wood chips onto the wort, and let it ferment for about two weeks.

After two weeks, I transferred it into the carboy. Considerably darker than previous brews, as it should be. Also considerably clearer, which may be the result of the wood chips. Could also be the fact that I was very cautious to not pick up much sediment with the siphon, perhaps more so than usual. After a week in the carboy, Lauren and I bottled it. Twenty-six 22oz bottles and two 12oz bottles. They are now conditioning; they go into the fridge on or around Friday.

Photos from the brew night, more coming as they are collected: