The Week

We don't seem to have many sick days (or weeks) in our household, but this week we have been hit. I picked up Ian's coughing attacks (not quite a cold, just crazy amounts of uncontrollable coughing). But on the bright side, today is the last day of Connor's exile! That means we will finally get to start hanging out with people next week. Such a welcome relief! Of course, everyone will probably still be afraid of us due to my crazy coughing fits. Oh well.

For Christmas I bought Ian an at home brewing kit. After one batch, we hit up a local brew supply store to get more ingredients. While there, Ian was easily convinced to upgrade from our 1 gallon kit to a 5 gallon kit. Thankfully pretty much everything switched over, so we spent very little to upgrade. Making your own beer is a lot more time consuming than I thought. It takes about 4 hours to cook it. Then it has to sit for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, you bottle it. Then it has to sit 2 more weeks to carbonate. A couple days ago we bottled the last batch Ian made. We bottled about 50 bottles...go us!

And for the icing on the cake...



I woke up this morning to gray skies!!! It is supposed to rain all weekend! I am SO EXCITED about this. We just haven't had enough rain and I have been missing it. Yeah for gray skies and rain boots!

Strawberry Beer

I should have known it was too good to be true, but I had to try it.

While Ian was grabbing himself some Sierra Nevada the other day, a pink packaged beer caught my eye. On closer inspection, I discovered it was strawberry beer. Sounded good enough for a try.

So, last night, I sat down for a taste. And, it was not good. It tasted like beer with strawberry sauce in it. Now Jessica, you say...what did you think it was going to taste like? Why thank you for asking...I thought it was going to be something like wine, but made out of strawberries. Sounds good, right? Come to think of it, maybe I should invent strawberry wine! Or, just sit around and drink strawberry juice!

Anyway, here are some photos from my taste test: