My home brew sat for two weeks carbonating. I opened one last night and had my first taste. I took a short video to send to the benefactors of this project, to share the moment with them. Here is the transcript:
"The time has come to open this. You're really watching this now. It sounded carbonated! Smells like beer... (sip)... THAT could pass for a beer! This is exciting."
Other reviews from the Earp household:
"Smells good... tastes fine, it's just a bit fizzy." -The Baby Brother (ok, not a baby, he's 23)
"Sounds like beer... looks like beer... tastes like beer... you know, for all that work, it came out like a beer!" -The Dad
and later-- "It tastes like banana pudding!"
Sort of. Despite no bananas occurring anywhere in the brewing process, my hefeweizen tastes ever so slightly banana-y. That's kind of typical though. I don't think it tastes quite like pudding, but that's just me. This might go nice with a slice of orange*. It is absurdly fizzy though. I'm going to have to read more about the carbonation process and figure that out.
So I hope you will join me for a quaff at some point! It looks like there will be a Dear Beer Friends staff dinner meeting next week, when I will share this with Paul and others and get their reviews. I'm really pumped to share this with friends and family. It's definitely not the most amazing hefeweizen I've ever had, but I think it's totally drinkable, totally passable as beer. How exciting!
In case you're interested in home brewing, here's a ridiculous article about how to take it a step further, kind of MacGyver style.
*I realize putting fruit in beer is totally against man law, but 1. I am a girl, and 2. a man who served as a marine who I went to college with said it was ok, so I'm pretty sure it's ok.
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