"A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure." - Czech proverb

What's that? Two posts in one month? We have my glorious week off to thank for that! Unfortunately it's almost over but I've tried to take advantage of every moment and now I am updating! Here we go!

76. Brew Our Own Beer

Our good pal Steve got a home-brewing kit for Christmas and invited us over to help him make his first batch! And by he invited "us" over I mean he invited Jamie and Becky but Lindsay and I tagged along.

As you can see, we were very helpful. Note that Steve is in the background reading directions while I am taking pictures of Lindsay making silly faces.




Steve, Becky and Jamie did most of the work of the actual beer-making, but I was in charge of documenting the whole thing. So let me outline the steps:

First: Read the directions



Second: Lay out the ingredients



Third: Ask Steve a lot of questions about brewing that he can't answer because it was everyone's first time.

He's attempting to sound smart here.

Fourth: Eh, I don't really remember. I know we added in a lot of ingredients and waited for water to boil.  I made this pretty collage so you can see all of our steps in relatively the correct order.

It is absolutely essential that someone braids their hair at some point during the process.

Most importantly though, don't forget any ingredients! Especially the yeast! We had everything ready to go and had poured the beer and water into the bucket then sealed it all up.

Suddenly I realized, wait a minute, we didn't put the yeast in! We tried to open the bucket again but the lid wasn't budging. Luckily we're not as dumb as we look though, and with the help of a turkey baster and a funnel, we were able to get all of that yeast where it belonged.



Ta-da!



It may not look very impressive right now, but we made something that I forget the name of (it definitely had "red" in it) and it smelled pretty good. So we will let you know how the bottling and tasting goes when we cross that bridge, beer-brewing is a long process.


Alright, I promised everyone that I would let you know what I got Becky for Christmas for our trip!

Jamie, Becky, Lindsay and I got together the day after Christmas to exchange our fabulous gifts.

I won't go into what we all got, but we do a great job of buying gifts for each other. Mostly because we buy things we know we would like and it usually works out! But for our trip I got Becky:

An awesome travel journal



A passport case.

And these awesome custom luggage tags!

I had to block out the addresses, the Internet is a scary place!

My Mom also got us backpacks and our friend Megan filled up adorable cosmetic bags with a bunch of goodies!

So now we're almost all set for our trip. We just need some plane tickets! I promise to keep you updated on our trip, our beer and everything else we cross off our bucket list!


The Go Getters hope you had a very happy holiday and have a happy new year! And until next time, good luck exploring the infinite abyss.

Love Always,
The Go Getters

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^ DO ITTTTTT!! [Note: from Becky]

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