Brewing Beer

Two weeks ago, we did our annual fall beer brewing outing with people from work. We go to a place called IncrediBREW in Nashua, NH - it is a brew-it-yourself brewery. It's pretty cool! They have six brew kettles that you can rent out to brew your favorite beers. They have over 80 recipes to chose from! Once you decide on the beers you want to brew (and that may be the hardest part!) you weigh out all your grains, hops, and malts and the brewing process begins. It takes about 2 hours to brew... and in the down time, it leaves plenty of opportunity to socialize, eat pizza, and sample some beers. Last year we rented all six kettles, this year the number of people was down slightly, so we only did three kettles. Each kettle holds about 14 gallons of beers... which when you come back in two weeks for bottling turns into about 72 (22-oz) bottles of delicious goodness. Tonight was our night to go back and bottle the beers. Now our fridge is officially stocked for the holiday season. We cracked one open tonight to test it out and it was really good... now I can't wait to try the other two! Cheers!