Brewing has been suffering along with blogging under the onslaught of SpotComponents and my massive three-hour load in school. Yet I have eked out a bit of it, and it has owned me. This latest product is hoppy.

The initial gravity reading, all foamy and everything:

The final gravity reading. You know you want some:

I took the initial gravity as 1.045, and the final as 1.007. That tells me 4% alcohol by volume, which I trust, as Douglas Adams said, about as far as I can comfortably spit out a rat. Will I never get good gravity data? Perhaps not. But I will get good beer.

Next up is lagers. Adeodatus ordered the goods for 30 gallons of lager between the two of us, so expect to hear about that soon.