My mom and I bought K a homebrew kit for his 40th birthday. He and our good friend/neighbor jumped right in and are on their way to becoming Brewmaster Extraordinaires (or something like that). They have who knows how many gallons of beer in various stages of brewing right now. They even let the wives help do some bottle capping (see pics above)! It has been fun watching them navigate the in's and out's of this hobby and hearing the lingo they have adopted along the way. I now know (or at least kind of know) the definition of words and phrases like wort, pitching yeast, specific gravity, priming, and what a hydrometer is for. I also know far too much about the fermentation process and have stared down a particularly feisty batch of fermenting beer wondering if it was going to explode all over my kitchen. Good stuff!
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