Wow! Did you see the rack on that Book Club?

I racked the beer tonight.  That means, that I took it from the fermenter and put it into the bucket that we will bottle from.  Normally, we would bottle right away but we're going to try a dry hop step.  So I added one oz of Chinook hop leaves, stirred it up and will let it sit for a few days before we bottle.  The final gravity was 1.03 which translates into 4% alcohol.  But, the yield was only about 4 gal so if I bring the volume up to 5 gal, which is the recipe size, it should lower the final gravity (water is ~1.0).  I also took a quick lick of the siphon tube.  It's going to be kick-ass; totally worthy of Gary and Wyatt.  Copilot Matt and I will bottle sometime this weekend after a few hoppy days.

I've started using Book Club as a synonym to boring and sucky, and Brew Club for total awesomeness and duh' winning.  Example: The kids and I were drawing pictures this evening and I had Pandora on the Jack Johnson station.  Some lame Train song came on and I instinctively said, this song is so Book Club, we need Brew Club.  So I dialed in the Led Zeppelin station.  Brew Club.

And, we're only up to $13 on the ads.  Click peoples, click! This will fund a Brew Club party at the grotto!