Dad's new brew!

Last night I brewed my first batch of beer. I used a recipe that is supposed to make a beer similar to one of my favorite beers, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The brew process was a lot easier than I thought it might be. So now I've got a bucket filled with 5 gallons of potential beer goodness and hopefully by 2 weeks the yeast will have done it's job of converting all the malted barley and hops into a nice tasting beer!

Well, I guess that's only 1/2 true. I will still have to wait at least another 2 weeks for the carbonation to develop after I bottle my beer. So around the time of Kelly's birthday I'll be enjoying some of my own homebrew!!

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In other news...Diego has enjoyed his first Mardi Gras weekend of parades! He really likes watching the marching bands go by and was talking a whole lot! He was probably trying to say the catch all Mardi Gras phrase, "Throw me something, Mister!" but in baby talk it just sounded like a bunch of vowels!