6th
01/02/06 – Greetland , Yorkshire
Pedalsport New Year Cross (TLI #5)

OK, OK, I only did one race. Must try harder next season.

Tuesday was my day off and despite not posting at the time, I followed through and started the beer brewing process. Here are a few facts.

• It took one hour to bring just over 4 gallons of water to a boil.
• It took about 1 1/2 hours to cool the 4 gallon wort down to around 70 degrees in a sink full of ice.

The whole process went pretty smoothly I thought. I was a bit more concerned with doing everything right (and I ended up doing most of it by myself) than documenting the event so the photos are a bit lacking unfotunately but here are a couple:

So now we are on day 4 of the fermentation. I was a bit worried at first because there was none of the explosive bubbling I was expecting for the first 48 hours of the process. I thought maybe I had somehow managed to not cool it properly and kill the yeast but sometime on thursday it decided to start doing its thing and when I checked on it of friday morning it was bubbling and spewing brown froth out of the top.

i just got back from seeing graves at sea. it was all going really well until afterwards when i accidentally deleted all the photos i took. they were good ones too. oh well.

well i figured i’d save my first post in this new blog for some important life changing event. well, tomorrow i’m going to enter into the world of brewing. i’ve been trying to do this for a while now but i think tomorrow it will finally happen. well if it does, i am sure there will be some photoblogging going on at this time tomorrow.