I hear they recently decided to add more hops

Beer making is hard work (that really makes you thirsty)

So I got a beer making kit as a lovely Valentine's Day gift from my girlfriend. Its probably one of the most thoughtful gifts I've received (although my liver and beer gut will disagree). It probably sat on my dining table for a good solid month before I broke into it one lazy Sunday. Turns out, beer making requires a lot more pots than I have and a lot of time and patience (also of which I lack). Its the kinda "set it and forget it" type of process ...

-you may want to skip ahead if you have no interest in the beer making process-

1. You begin by heating a gallon of water in the beer wheat where it begins to look like oatmeal. Oh and it smelled fantastic in case you were wondering.
2. Then you cook it at a steady 155-165° F for an hour. This is a crucial step in the process. I mainly turned on the burner on and off every 10-15 minutes and stirred while playing Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain. Fun fact: there is a porn parody of this game called "Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Peen", which I definitely haven't seen.........
3. After cooking the oatmeal looking mixture you then need to separate the liquid from the oatmeal and strain it several times to get get all the bits and pieces out. A colander will do but a cheese cloth works even better. What weirdo decided to name it a cheese cloth?
4. Full disclosure I'm now 3 beers deep and writing this. Not a good idea by the way.
5. Once strained a few times, throw that brown stuff into a jug and bottle it up. Now you must wait. Seven. More. Days.
6. Now 7 days later, you must bottle the brew. I ordered these sweet 1 liter glass bottles from Amazon. You know, the kind they serve tap water in at restaurants. I made the mistake of simply pouring the brew into each bottle. The problem is this, once you start pouring, all the unstrained sediments and bits of hops start flowing too and messes up your batch. To avoid this you should use a tube of some kind to siphon the liquids from your jug to your 1 liter bottles. (See my pictures for a perfect example of what happens when not properly strained or poured.)
7. Now once each bottle has been filled, add a small amount of dextrose and cap each bottle up. Now you must leave your bottle at room temperature and wait. Seven. To. Ten. More. Days.
8. Now that you've waited almost 2 weeks to yield one gallon of beer, you can chill your bottles, wait at least another hour or two, and FINALLY enjoy.

This one was an American Amber Ale. It was good. I drank it. All of it. I'll probably make another batch in the next week or two. Perhaps a beer of the Bavarian Weizen assortment. Who knows? The world is my hop(s).