Saturday, June 20, 2009

micro home brew

today, we (make) beer
there's no beer in the apartment (there is, but it's rolling rock, and that's hardly a beer) so alex and i decided to make some pomegranate pale ale using a kit from mr. beer home brewing system

ingredients:
1 package booster - corn starch powder/sugar?
1 can pale ale
1 package brewers yeast

2 cups pomegranate syrup
1/2 small bottle of Finnish honey
(golden bear is probably ok.
honey adds alcohol content and make the beer drier...if that makes any sense)


stirring the booster, honey and pomegranate syrup
i stirred like i never stirred in my life. the booster has to completely dissolve and not clump up, and then we poured the honey and pomegranate. then we set the whole thing to boil.

pale ale (unhopped malt mix)
it pours easier when immersed in hot/warm water

poured the pale ale mix into our boiling booster/honey/pomegranate mixture
must stir virgorously!

it smelled awful. and made our entire apt smell awful too.

alex pouring the whole thing into our plastic keg.
now it sits for two/three weeks to ferment

i'll keep you posted
or not, if it's awful.

1 comment:

Jen said...

I can't wait to hear how it turns out! My boyfriend and I have one of those kits, but haven't attempted it yet!