Yes it has taken me two days to write about it. I’ve been slow that way, but I was able to brew on Sunday. I fired up the California Common or steam beer kit I’ve had sitting around for a while. Everything was great, smooth going. I even was able to leave grains steep while I ran to the local U-haul to get a refill on the LP.

Sadly, I learned a valuable lesson. Don’t try to do too many things at once while you brew:

Look carefully:

and just to confirm:

Yes, that was a boil over. I was trying to get the boil going nice as well as get dinner on the rotisserie. Sadly, the brew kettle was in the garage, and the grill is on the back deck. Running back and forth is great for hop additions, it even works for making sure the pork roast is turning right. It definitely was not a good idea for me to notice my boil wasn’t as active as I wanted it, turn it up and quick run inside to check the roast.

I came back out moments later to see it frothing out of the kettle! This was the first boil over I’ve had in years and I was much chagrined about it. The awesome roast made up for it a little though, so it was all good.

I’m hoping the beer will turn out wonderful, such is my luck… and on the topic of luck, maybe I’ll be lucky enough to fire it up again this weekend, who knows!

Cheers!
Tony