Quick update!

The homebrewing is going well so far! I got everything sterilized and the inaugural batch mixed up without incident. Added the yeast and put the carboy in my closet...it started producing co2 about an hour later, got some happy little bubbles up through the airlock. This was Tuesday evening at about 8pm.

There's a TON of foam on top of the beer, which is good, means that it's doing alot of fermenting! The foam actually came up through the airlock for a day and kept pushing all the water out, I didn't know what to do except clean out the airlock here and there and hope that the co2 coming out is enough to keep anything else from getting in! Most of the time, from what I've been reading, people have problems with fermentation going too slowly...definitely not having that problem! Temperature is sitting perfectly at 24*.

It's still happily bubbling away, it probably will for another few days, and then it's on to bottling! (and then more waiting!)



Rugby is AWESOME. I've finally figured out the rules (for the most part) but something I didn't really plan on was learning strategy...there's so much information coming so fast...the players are really helpful, they can tell I've not played before, but "Pillow post to the fly half" doesn't help much either. My cleats (or "rugby boots") arrived today, so I won't be sliding around tomorrow at my first away game!