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I’m planning to crack open my first bottle of my first original beer recipe tonight.  The American Amber has been bottled up for 18 days now, and the carbonation should be reaching completion.  To be honest, I did lose patience and opened a bottle at about 8 days, but that went exactly the way it should have.  It was flat and extremely green tasting.  It tasted like flat mud.  How’s that.  Tonight should be better.  I really would like to wait another week or more, but I just can’t.  I am not so experienced at this that I can help myself.  I promise to get better.

In other news, I’ve been drinking mostly homebrews lately, hence, the lack of beer reviews. (did I type that sentence out correctly?)  The fact is, I have some bombers of new beer to try, but they are all very big beers and I just haven’t had the time to squeeze in that sort of a beer.  I want to do the beers justice and I just am usually too tired to strap on a big one by the time the kids go down for the night.  Soon, I promise.  Otherwise, I have some very unexciting beers in 12 oz bottles.  Some are twist-offs, which makes them very tough to get to.  The others are Sam Adams Summer Ale (yes, still!) and a selection of New Belgium.  I just can’t get excited about those.  So, my ESB and my Pale Ale have been getting my attention.  Credit goes to the authors of the recipes:  EdWort over at homebrewtalk did the pale ale and the ESB is a Drydock Brewing creation.  These are both first class brews.

So, tonight, I hope to put my stamp on the beer brewing world.  Well, at least MY beer brewing world.  I’d be thrilled to have created a quality beer.  We’ll see.  If this one doesn’t work out, I have lots of hope for my next one - I just bottled my IPA on Sunday night, and it tasted excellent going into the bottles.

I’ll be back in two hours or less with a full report.  I’m expecting lowish (but some!) carbonation and a greenish tasting beer that should age into a very nice amber.  Here’s hoping!