This is News?
So somebody came up with the idea that you could brew your own beer. And then my dad heard about it, and now we have about 40 bottles full of some ungodly, foul-smelling concoction laying all over the house. I’ve been told that this stuff is going to “ferment” and “age”, and that we’ll only have to live with the horrible stench for a little while longer. As for right now, it smells like somebody threw a raging kegger and forgot to clean up. I’m not even old enough to drink, so I don’t see this as much of a good thing. My dad though, the man is excited. This is a pretty big deal apparently, and I have to admit it was quite an ordeal.
Brewin’
The worst part was definitely the brewing. Basically, the idea seems to be to throw a bunch of awful-smelling mixtures together in a giant steaming pot, and then forget about it for a week. The smell makes sure that that doesn’t happen, and the lid kept popping up. This was probably a result of the chemical reactions going on, but if you asked me, I’d say it’s the pure smell trying to escape. And then we opened it up, and there was a bunch of stuff growing on the top. Just stuff. I don’t know how else to describe it, other than a bunch of grimy tan gunk floating around in what is supposed to result in beer. And I’m no beer expert, so I’m sure this is all just par for the course, but man, it’s disgusting. This had better be one heck of a batch.
Bottlin’
After the whole ordeal of getting the lid off the huge pot that has been sitting in our bathroom for a week and a half, the siphoning began. In laymen’s terms, this means we stuck a big hose in it and watched if empty into another giant pail. Which would’ve been fine, except it spilled all over the floor, and it still smelled. Eventually, it all got into bottles somehow, and they were all capped and sealed. Now, I would assume, we wait for everything to settle down. Of course, I can’t actually drink any of it, but right now the word from the experts is “it needs some time to age”. So was it all worth it? I didn’t actually do much of anything, except take these pictures, so I’d say yeah. It gave my dad something to do, got us all in the same room, and resulted in 2 cases full of beer. And really, isn’t that all you’d really need?
EWWW!! Why did he want to make his own beer anyways?
wow this is only the funniest thing i have heard/read all week. not even joking, this is good stuff right here. i would have liked to have been there to witness this stuff.