The wheat beer I boiled up with a ton of nice spray malt extract and a tin of wheat beer syrup has finally started fermenting noticeably, after about 20 hours of sitting and doing nothing in the primary fermenter. Whew, is all I can say. I was worried that one was going nowhere! It’s true, what they say: don’t freak out if it doesn’t do anything right away. It’s not necessarily a bad sign. Tomorrow or Friday, I’ll be boiling up a pumpkin barley wine. After that, I’ll need more malt extract but that’s the least of my problems — …

So I mentioned a LONG time ago that I’d been inspired by the Homebrew Korea blog, and had begun home-brewing beer. The first batch I finished for the end of last semester, and handed out bottles to a bunch of people before leaving for my summer trip. (And if you have any of my bottles, I’d like ’em back! Those swing-top bottles aren’t cheap, folks!) My first attempt was a stout which was pretty alright, though not very foamy and not very strong: It turned out okay, but there was something a little off. Not contaminated off, just, not as …