Went up to San Francisco today to make beer with my friend Scott. It was a good time, but it turned out to be a lot less intense of a process than I expected. To a large extent it involved sitting and waiting. Scott got the equipment from San Francisco Brewcraft. The process was pretty simple: we put the grains in a big 5-gallon pot and warmed it up to let it steep, waited a while, took out the grains, warmed it up again, waited a while, added some more stuff (like hops) to the brew, warmed and waited some more, then cooled it down and mixed it with water and covered it. I'm oversimplifying of course, but there was definitely a lot of "and now we wait." And in fact, the process actually takes about 6 weeks, most of which is just waiting for fermentation (although there are a few more steps, including bottling), but yeah, it's definitely not a hobby designed for working off the pounds. Fun though.
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