All Set for Brew Two

I took the day off on Friday. Part of the process of getting an immigrant visa to the US is to have a medical examination by an approved doctor, and in expectation of things not going as smoothly as I would like I took the whole day off - by as smooth as I would like I mean the doctor taking one quick look and declaring me a picture of health, without the need for blood tests and the like.

One of the things needed for the exam was a chest x-ray, which meant sitting around for about 90 minutes while they found a doctor to sign the little piece of paper describing the results for me to take back to the examing physician. So apparently I am pretty much healthy, no HIV, no syphilis and no TB, and much relief that the only injection needed was a tetanus booster, nobody had told me that the HIV/syphilis test was just a pin prick to the finger and the results in 15 minutes - health check drive thru, could catch on!

Declared healthy, and having enjoyed a small Schlenkerla Märzen over lunch with Evan, I set about getting the remaining ingredients for the beer I brewed on Saturday, my lime witbier - the name for which I am working on at the moment, and hoping the Yeastie Boys do their thing. I will describe in full the brewing procedure tomorrow, but my basic ingredients were as follows:

• Wheat DME
• Lime peel
• Coriander seed
• Saaz hop pellets
• Wyeast 3944 Belgian Witbier