that's that

the whole apt smells like brewing beer. if i could manufacture cologne, i'd make "brewing beer" and "roasting coffee". nothing smells like either of them and they're both mmm mmm delicious.

the eris pale ale is living up to its name already. for all five batches i've bought bottled water. 6 gallons of bottled water to make 5 gallons of beer. 2.5 for the boil, then add 2.5 to make 5 gallons, except it won't, because some has boiled some off, but no worries, that's what the extra gallon was for. well, evidently the boil was rather extra-vigorous today. after i'd spent the extra gallon i was still at least a gallon short.

so i topped the batch off with tapwater from my "pur" water filter which had been residing in my fridge as of last week.

now, since this is an EPA, i'm not really concerned with reproducibility, since reproducibility is decidedly aneristic. that (and the fact that i'm lazy) is why i didn't bother to take an OG reading. and that is why i'm not too concerned with the funky blend of water that went into the beer.

my only worry is the cleanliness of the tapwater. well, i guess i should be worried about the chlorine content also, but that should be diluted enough and overpowered by the beer and the bottled water. but the tapwater hasn't been boiled or anything and the PUR filter thingus isn't exactly sterile.

but we all know the homebrewer's motto: relax, have a homebrew! i'm not tremendously concerned. after all, this is probably the fewest number of screwups of any beer i've brewed so far, if that can be believed. now all i need to hope for is continued mild weather and we're set.

it doesn't look like it will be as pale as i'd hoped it would be. so it goes. maybe the P in EPA will have to stand for Pale-ish or maybe Putrid if the water wasn't sterile. Ha!