MacGyver Indian Pale Ale

Yesterday my friend Matt and I bottled our MacGyver Indian Pale Ale. We should probably come up with another name for it, something more indirectly and cunningly allusive … but no, I think MacGyver it is. The theme of last-minute improvisation continued when, using nothing but a (sanitized) hair tie and a mesh bag, we made a filter for the beer, which still had some grainy sediment floating in it. The yeast fermented away a good gallon of the wort, and for some reason it still surprises me when that happens. Anyway, we realized that we hadn’t ordered new bottle caps, but luckily we still had some old ones, a mishmash of green and silver, some with rust on them, but enough clean ones to make it work. So, one week until the taste test, and we’ll see if the carbonation makes the beer more bitter, as it seemed to with our last batch of (unintentionally very dark) IPA.

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I envy your ventures in brewery. I can’t say that I would know a good ale from a bad one, but I admire the work nonetheless. I’d love to attempt something akin to that, myself, but realistically I’m afraid that I’d poison myself because I didn’t sterilize something correctly.

No matter how it tastes, at least it’s adventurous.