What's Brewing --

Today, we are brewing beer from a kit bought from The Beverage People in Santa Rosa, CA.  It's called Black IPA and it is very dark.  I'll also be taking the spent grain and making bread soon, using a recipe from Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads.   Here's the setup we had to chill the wort. The wort chiller is in the beer kettle on the stove, cold ice water flows from the bucket on the fridge into the wort chiller and then out a hose strung across the kitchen to the sink - pretty neat gravity feed setup!  In two weeks we'll bottle the brew wait a bit more and then enjoy.