Made two batches of beer on Sunday. The first was an all grain attempt at an american brown ale. Should end up nice an dark with a little bitterness and good hop aroma. Currently the yeast are seriously going to town on that shit and its pretty fun to watch through the side of the glass cardboy. Our other beer which is a clone of Pyramids Snowcap winter ale, had a great start to it, but seems to be faltering on the fermentation end of things. Granted I had to improvise an airlock by shoving a damp rag in the top to keep out air bacteria from spoiling the beer. While I doubt that would affect fermentation I'm still madly trying to obtain another airlock and perhaps another batch of yeast to toss in there in hopes to keep in from going bad. At any rate in about 8 weeks we'll have beer, either 4 gallons or 9 gallons in all that'll be ready for drinking.

If it turns out ok I'll bring a couple bottles up for christmas.