St. Patrick's Day: beer and apple sauce.

Haiku-a-day:

Mar 17^th

It kind of sucks when

you are left alone when your

group members don’t show.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Today I sat through a rough 2 hours in my Museum Studies class.  The professor is so boring because all she does in terms of lecturing is read off her notes.  She isn't actually lecturing.  At least we got to watch a video about the Royal Armories Museum here in Leeds which is one of the oldest museums in the world.  We are taking a field trip there next week, so that is exciting.

After taking a lunch break after class, I headed over to the Food Science building because *drum roll* my group's beer was ready to bottle!  We found out from the professor yesterday.  A guy in my group sent out an email saying that we should get together today to bottle it.  I replied to everyone saying we should definitely bottle today, giving them the time I would be there to do it.  Well, no one else responded and when I got to the building, no one else from my group was there.  I ended up spending 2.5 hours there by myself sanitizing and bottling.  We had 12 liters set aside for our beer festival later in the semester and the rest amounted to 26 bottles for us to take home.  However, 2 of them cracked (not completely my fault: 1 of them I wasn't even near, the glass just shattered by itself and the other cracked when I was trying to put the cap on).  So we ended with 24 bottles between the 5 of us.  Even though I was the only one doing all the work, I volunteered myself to be the one to take only 4 bottles home.  I figure it's best because I don't drink that much anyway.

Considering how scared we were when we found out how alcoholic our beer was going to be, it's not that bad taste-wise.  You can't taste the alcohol very much.  As my professor put it, the alcohol "is not 'in your face.'"  It tastes kind of sweet, smooth, and has a nice roast flavor that lingers in the back of your mouth.  It is not a total failure!  The professor actually said he liked it!  We're at the stage now where we must wait for it to go through a second fermentation and become carbonated.  Someone mentioned waiting two weeks for it to become carbonated.  I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I don't mind waiting.

At about 10:30PM today, Roxanne asks me what I'm doing.  I reply "Absolutely nothing."  (It was true.  I didn't want to do anymore homework, so I was just playing sporcle.  If you have never sporcled, I suggest you start immediately!)  Anyway, so I tell her I'm not busy and she suggests we make applesauce.  So we did.  It wasn't like my mom's wonderful applesauce (I think I added too much lemon juice...we weren't measuring anything!), but it was still good.  When my flatmates and I sat down around 11:30PM to eat it, I introduced them all to the concept of eating applesauce on top of bread.  They thought it sounded really weird at first, but then realized that it's an amazing combo.  

So this has been my day.  Also, airline problems resolved (after spending a half hour on the phone with them and paying more money).  Now I'm just praying that they don't change my flights around on me again.

Beer I brewed and bottled myself!  Still have yet to pick a name...