26 December started off easily enough, but I couldn't take it anymore. Less than 48 hours after unwrapping Mr. Beer, I had to start brewing...
My girlfriend and I proceeded to spend the next hour or two cramped in my kitchen, trying to get the first brew underway. My basic kit came with a West coast pale ale, enough extract and booster to make 8.5 US quarts of beer. I carefully read, and re-read all of the directions (a huge milestone for a guy), and with great care, sanitized all of the equipment I was going to use. Dissolved the booster in water, boiled, added the hopped malt extract, and added the wort to the cold water in my keg already. I stirred, let the mixture settle in temperature, then pitched the yeast. The whole process was probably only 60 minutes, but it felt like much less. Before I knew it, the yeast was mixed in with the beer mixture, and I was ready to hurry up and wait. I left the beer to ferment in the keg for two weeks, and on 9 January, I was ready to bottle.
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