Alright... looks like the Borman (sans :( Petrillo) Brews are back! Today Eric and I are brewing an Ale Mead and a Honey Porter. Now these might very well completely suck because the ingredients were purchased pre-Alex. But whatever, it'll be fine for us! Now I think I need to buy another carboy! KP - You are missed!

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Its almost spring! Jesi and I were able to take a walk outside today and not freeze our thighs off. We were also able to bottle our Black Ale and Chocolate Stout. Now we need to order more! Eric definitely wants to brew outside using a burner, instead of doing it in our new kitchen. Let me just say that I am willing to brew any time, any place. Austin Homebrew has a flat $6.99 shipping fee!

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Alright, in an attempt to be more organized I am going to blog today. We brewed a Black Ale and a Chocolate Stout. Yum. We started around noon and were done before 5pm. Crazy! After over a year of brewing we learned that we can make a super concentrated wort and add more water once we put it in the car boy. This cuts down on time it takes to boil the wort. KP made a wort chiller out of copper pipe and tubes - we cooled that wort down in less than twenty minutes! Holy Shit! Thats a crazy record! Hell... we did two batches in one day. I think I am going to order another kit tomorrow once the hinged bottles are in stock. Yeah, I should by paying for my taxes but beer is way more fun.

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Alright, so its been at least 5 months since we brewed out last batch of beer. Let me remind you that it is a group effort. KP, Eric and myself all throw a hand in at brewing. While some of us scrub more bottles than others and some of us lift the wort into the sink more than others, it is a group effort. I have been hesitant to scrub bottles because I can't drink any! In fact, I think we will need more bottles for the batch we plan on brewing this Sunday. I realize we have time to get the bottles because I am sure we won't bottle for at least a month or so.

Hey, you are wondering, where do you get all that nifty brewing stuff? Well... I love organic beer but Austin Home Brew has a standard shipping that one cannot ignore. They also have a huge supply of all sorts of brew. I still have no desire to clean bottles but really wait to get some beer on deck. Yes I will be breast feeding and yes I will have a beer while I do it. I hear the brewer's yeast is good for breast milk production.

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It was really too cold this morning. I think I want to move to a warmer climate. I do love my friends and family in New York but the older I get the more I hate the winter. Don't get me wrong, I do love a good snow storm or two. I like the sort of snow that will keep you inside for the day and melt cleanly away from the roads by the next morning. Oh! And winter should only last about two months. Any cold snowy weather lasting longer than two months should go to hell.

We are finally going to brew another batch (or two) of beer. It will be the first of 2008. We haven't brewed anything since we heard we were prego. It is mostly because Eric wants to avoid that sort of thing while I want him to avoid that sort of thing... does my air-headed ramble make sense?

Speaking of being pregnant, I really need to get a few more prego shirts... and a pair of dressy black pants. Old Navy.com where are the bargains?!

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Today we bottled our Pumpkin Ale and the West Coast Pale Ale.

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Today we brewed at Pumpkin Spice Ale & a West Coast Pale Ale.

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Brewing number nine and bottling a pale ale.

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Bottled the Organic California Lager "L" (brewed on April 7th, 2007) and an ale (brewed on April 21st, 2007) we purchased from Northern Brewer "A". The organic beer is always fucking awesome but a but pricey - as is anything labeled organic. The beer from Northern Brewer was a gift for the Albert Wedding... it was good and quick. We decided at the last minute to brew them a batch of beer and that kit was the fastest one we could find. It was good but I prefer the organic any day!

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We brewed beer again.

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We brewed at Porter today!

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We brewed an IPA today! Yummy.

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Today we bottled our first batch of homebrew. It is an Irish Stout from Seven Bridges. We brewed it in October 2006.

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