Beer Day

After a long busy weekend working Pridefest...Today is a Beer day.  Started by cleaning a few of the empty kegs that have been getting nastier day by day.  Then racked the first of my summer wheat beer series, the raspberry wheat.  Racking involves siphoning the beer out of the primary carboy into the secondary carboy which is pictured below with the fruit in the bottom.

Wolfgang scoping out the 4lbs of Raspberries.

 The base beer tasted good too, perhaps a little sweet.  Residual sweetness means its not completely done but I will raise the temperature to get the beer to finish out.  The warmer temperature will keep the yeast active and get them to finish eating those sugars.

Racking beer and cleaning kegs all while brewing the next beer to go into the primary fermenter, another wheat beer, which I think I'll make into a blackberry wheat. 

Mashing out on a nice sunny day.  

I've been pretty productive today around the house too, not just with beer.  Carson and I cleaned up the garage pretty nice, going to pull the jetta in there in the next couple days and fix: horn, hood release, coolant leak, and the solder joints in the door latches which are starting to set my alarm off when the car is unlocked.  Then going to list that stupid car for sale and eliminate a giant non stop headache.

Oh yea, Carson's parents gave us a Wii.  Wii only have wii sports for it so far, but it is quite a bit of fun.

Jammie having a virtual sword fight.  Pretty epic.