beached whale pale ale

david's injury (see crash boom bang post below) meant we weren't going to tahoe this weekend. no skiing, no snowshoeing, no sleeping over at kate's. once we recovered from our disappointment, we realized that we had time to bottle our pale ale.

we brewed up some pale ale in the kitchen 2 weeks ago, and by friday, it was ready for bottling. this evening, we undertook the first homebrew bottling of our young lives. sterilizing the bottles without chemicals is a pain, but we finally boiled the living...stuff...out of all the bottles we've been saving for a few months. steam burns were suffered. unhappiness reigned.


then the bottling began, and we were happy again.

the brown liquid in the "ale pail" actually looks and smells like beer. it turns out that neither one of us thought to taste it before capping all the bottles. perhaps we'll remember that step next time.

in ten days, we'll open one of the bottles of beached whale pale ale, and we'll let you know how it is. we've got our fingers crossed that it will be delicious. well, i have my fingers crossed; i'm not sure post-bike-trauma david's gimpy fingers are capable of crossing.