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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.