With the approaching holiday I'm a little under the gun time wise, but I mixed up my 2 gallon batch of My Beer tonight with the hope that it'll be ready by the 4th. From start to finish it took maybe a half hour at the most and some of that time was spent on sanitizing.
It's a no boil kit for some kind of non specific ale so the malt syrup already has the hops in it. I used some other yeast (and English ale, I think) that I had in stock and even gave it a little head start by adding it to a little dried malt and water before adding it to the wort. I also threw a few Cascade hop pellets in at the end to see if it will do anything for the aroma.
They say about 7 days to ferment and then it's bottling time. The two gallons should take less than 12, 22 oz bottles so that works for me (less bottle cleaning). I hope that with the smaller batches I'll be able to brew more often and if I get the Beer Machine going too I could have a whole slew of different brews to try the next time anyone comes for a visit.
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