Good things come to those that drink good beer...

Rachel won a New Belgium 2011 Fat Tire cruiser from an online drawing! We picked it up from Jerry, a New Belgium "Beer Ranger" today. This is our 7th bike in our one bedroom apartment!

New Belgium Cruiser made by Felt.

Rachel poured us some help.

We did the assembly quickly. Very painless.

It really is a very comfortable bike. It rolls smooth, albeit quite heavy. It looks like aluminum... but that's all steel! Great for a flat place like Dallas.

Brewing Daze

Finished up brewing the beer for the wedding with Matt yesterday. We did a 10 gallon New Belgium Fat Tire clone. Ended up a wee bit on the light side as far as original gravity is concerned. We were aiming for 1.051 and I think the final was around 1.046. It's still beer. I snapped some photos:

Rode my bike over - heating up the strike water.

Hauled a propane tank in the trailer. A bit wobbly on them hills! Note the DC sticker.

21 lbs. of grains and some Target, Williamette and Kent Golding hops.

Mashing the grains in the strike water.

Sparging into the brew kettle. It was raining at this point... Hard Slick got us covered.

The sun came back out eventually. Starting the boil.

Wort is just about boiling with c-clamped hop bag.

Cooling the wort via plate chiller, right into the fermenter.

Matt racking the Saison from two weeks ago. The yeast cake smelled so spicy!

The Saison in secondary.