He has been so excited about making beer. It generally takes two weeks to make a brew - the first week the beer spends in the fermenter and the second week the beer spends in the bottles. Some heavier beers or beers with more sugars take longer than two weeks. The starter kit comes with a pale ale (think Sierra Nevada) and should take two weeks.
Sean, of course, added ingredients to the pale ale to make the brew his own. He boiled down and added fresh strawberry juice to the mix that went into the fermenter, and he let this brew sit in the tank for 10 days (instead of 7). Then when he bottled the beer, he added strawberry flavored syrup (like the stuff that goes over ice cream) and raw sugar to the beer in the bottles in place of just sugar. See, you have to add sugar of some sort to the bottles to make the beer carbonate (I have learned SO MUCH about beer recently).
After he bottled the strawberry pale, he made another batch of beer with a kit called Englishman's Nut Brown Ale, to which he will add honey when he bottles it and call "Honey Nut Cheerio," with the word cheerio to be said with an English accent. Get it? Honey because he's adding honey, nut because of the nut flavors, and cheerio said in the accent because it's an Englishman's beer. I know, adorable, right? Oh, and he's keeping all of his recipes in this:
Oh my gosh, so cute.
Anyway, we cracked open a bottle of the strawberry pale ale tonight, and it was delicious. And it's pink :)
I'll let him have it. My husband is a brewmaster.
His little notebook is too cute!
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