HomeBrew!

Wow! My buddy and I brewed out second batch of homebrew on Saturday. (An American Amber, using a kit from Beer, Beer, and More Beer, using Chico yeast scrounged from the local microbrew). Primary ferment was pretty sluggish, but I put a blow-off tube on just for principles sake. Good thing I did. The carboy has all its head-space full of krausen, and the tube is full of chunks. If I had just used an airlock, I would have been cleaning krausen off the kitchen ceiling, and trying to persuade my wife to let me brew again. The Beer Gods have smiled upon me once again.