Short Week
This will be a short week as we all take some well deserved time off for thanksgiving. Today we bottled some wheat, stout and rootbeer. Things went pretty smoothly… It was kinda of nice for a change!
The health inspector came by today. He is a pretty nice guy, and I think he likes coming to inspect us, because everything is so clean and safe. It is a nice break from having messy kitchens and ‘cold rooms’ that are above 50 degrees. We put so much into making our sure our beer has a good shelf life that most of his concerns seem rather trivial. Like having handing washing stations in an area where everyone wears gloves so the sanitizer doesn’t eat the skin off their hands. The only ones that really apply are the Good Manufacturing Process ones, like making sure bizzare foreign objects aren’t falling into the beer. I think we have that part covered pretty good too.
We were abit worried about what he would think of us having a cat, but it turned out he loves cats, and he thought it was fine as long as she was confined to the upstairs. Thankfully Chris put a screen door at the bottom of the stairs just last week, so we can finally let Millie out to hunt for mice. There should be plenty for her, as I found two dead mice when I was clearing out the traps last week!
I see that Ragbrai Registration starts this week. I think next year I want to do the whole thing.. who is going with me?