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Nearly a week after brewing, the Christmas Goose is still fermenting, and still active. It stayed in...

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Detail of the mermaid shawl - what beautiful work Bethany!\

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Detail of the mermaid shawl.

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A mermaid shawl Bethany knitted for my sister Stephanie for her birthday!

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Blocking out a mermaid shawl Bethany knitted for Stephanie!

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By the next morning, the Christmas Goose had lightened up quite a bit, and was still fermenting strong.

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Whew - the other airlock is nice and clear.

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Yikes - one of the fermenters got going a little too strongly; it blew trub right through the airlock!

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Not even 24 hours after pitching the yeast, both carboys of Christmas Goose were fermenting strongly!

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The Christmas Goose, transferred, cooled and put into the fermentation fridge...

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A tea ball full of spruce tips, after retrieving them from the brew kettle...

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A neighbor came by who was very interested in our brewing experiments... Cedric is showing off our recipes & his great recipe book!

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The Tuttle, full of wort and boiling away in my driveway...

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Cedric, stirring the wort.

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An hour later, we have lautered out & nearly have a boil...

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Mashing out into the brew kettle.

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The various ingredients to be added to the Spruce Tip ale today... There's spruce tips on the left, some...

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There's the bits of spruce tip I added to the mash.

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