Weighing out our carefully blended mix of malted barley (or lets just mix them all together and let the Yeast sort it out)
Today is a pretty big day for us here. Despite our over inflated egos from our first batch of beer (made from a predesigned malt extract from our local brew shop) leading us to jump directly to all grain brewing (i.e chapter 19) and necessitating the acquisition of a lot of new equipment and the design of our own mash tun, we seem to have had success. We even overcame the disaster of a broken thermometer during our wort chilling (we are pretty sure the mercury contamination was kept to a minimum thanks to previous training). In a few hours, we will be bottling this first all grain batch. It’s a not quite so pale pale ale of our own design (i.e. we know what we were supposed to add, but that may not be what we added).
Good thing your insurance is good through the end of the month, just in case that mercury poisoning was worse than anticipated! Love, MOM