Brew Town - Part 2

This time we brewed at steven's house and made 2 kinds of beer, A dirty blonde and a pale ale.

our intern Jonni B

The spent grains, gross

So the whole day was a disaster, and I mean whole day, it went from 2pm to 10pm.  We were using the wort chiller coil with bob squeezing it onto the sink faucet and I guess water was accumulating and dripping down the pipes through the building down to the second floor onto the guy's computer below.  He came with force and fury pounding on the door and we had to stop using the wort chiller.  Which is a bummer because it cools stuff down in like 20 minutes and we had to just let it cool down via the air which is bad, very bad.  Because for the 3 hours that its sitting out it is possibly getting contaminated 

Nabe at Kimie and Stevers

outside the annual American Illustration party with Richard Borge and his famous vermillion beetle.

Siphoned the settled cider into a secondary fermenter to get rid of the dead yeast and other gunk

said gunk

Friday, November 10th.  The last harvest.  They said the temperature would dip below freezing finally.  I bought all the stuff to make a little greenhouse the probably could have extended the growing season another month but insane projects and an impending trip to Korea left me with no time to build it.

upper west side life

The day before our month long Korea trip i went to AAA to get an international drivers permit because there would be a lot of driving between Seoul and Wonju.  Visa photo from 2008 is a bonus for you viewer.  Enjoy.

the garden the day we left for Korea.  Looks like that one cold night wasn't enough to kill the greens.  Too bad, could have gotten another month of veggies.  What a great first season it was.  It exceeded my expectations.  Looking forward to more next year.