Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Dumb and Dumber's Adventures: Arts & Crafts (Part 2: The Warm-up)

The Warm-Up
When we were finally ready to start our projects, we figured we'd start with the easy one first-the apple cider.  B was told, "All you  have to do is wash the jugs, pour in the unfiltered/pasturized apple juice, dump in the yeast, plug up the jars, store them in a cool, dark place for approximately two weeks, add corn sugar to taste, and then bottle it up". 

I got things going by gathering the jugs into the sink to give them a good rinsing.  I filled one up with water and started swishing it around in circles.  The water couldn't reach the top, so I switched from doing circles to an up and down motion. Unforunately, I got carried away...and on a downward thrust, I crushed one of our treasured tulip glasses that was sitting in the sink!  Sooooooooooooooooo sad!!! (stupid accident #3). So now B is left with only one tulip glass...lucky for him, I still have four at home! I just felt EXTRA dumb because I had just broken that stupid glass container at the store no more than an hour earlier. HAHAHAH

The rest of the project went more smoothly.  We had some apple juice and yeast spillage, a jug plug that got plugged in too deep, and we didn't fill the jug plugs up with water. Eventually, we resolved all of this and we were good to go.  We decided to reward ourselves with a break and a side by side tasting of Black Albert and a Green Flash Double Stout. Aaaaahhhhh...the good life. 



HUGE jug.

Our apple cider will sit in the basement for ~2 weeks.


PRETTY!


Stout tasting. Only one tulip :(  Black Albert wins in taste, but Green Flash wins for biggest head.

<3,
Sandy

P.S. three days later, we learned that making apple cider is waaaaaaaaaay more complicated than we were led to believe (a MILLION times MORE complicated! i'm not being dramatic. ask B!).  So...we might end up with apple vinegar instead of apple cider.  Only time will tell...(approximately 2 weeks...to be exact!)  

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