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Highbrow games has released a new game in the “community games” section of Xbox live arcade on the 13th of this month (I don’t know how that slipped past me).

The game titled Barf and Beer is solely based on who can drink the most. Here’s the description from marketplace.xbox.com:

This game was classified by the community with the following category scores – Violence=2/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=3/3. Chug your beer as fast as you can! Drink too much without burping and you’ll puke, wasting valuable drinking time! Punch your opponents while they’re burping to make THEM puke! Test your drinking skills against up to three other human or computer players at five difficulty levels!

I’m not sure how this game will go over but it’s only a measly 200 Microsoft points ($2.90) so I’ll be picking this up tonight and getting a real feel for it later on.

Expect a review.

Expect it to probably be bad.

Tonight I transferred my lovely smelling beer in to its secondary fermentation vessel, a 22 gallon food grade plastic carboy with bung and airlock.

The siphoning went well thanks to a tip from a home brew forum of filling the siphon tube with water then submerging the racking cane and allowing the water to pull the beer out of the bucket using simple physics. It worked really well and left me with nothing but trub in the bucket and a full carboy.

From Wikipedia:

In the process of brewing beer, trub (trubaceous matter; rhymes with “pub” in England but with “lube” in the U.S.) refers to the layer of sediment that appears at the bottom of the fermenter after yeast has completed the bulk of the fermentation. It is composed mainly of heavy fats, proteins and inactive yeast.

Side note: I automatically pronounced trub to rhyme with pub and not as “truoobe”

Here’s some pictures of the trub in the bucket after siphoning (unfortunately with a really long siphon hose two people were needed so my photographer was unable to take pictures).

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I filled the air lock with vodka which is a suggestion taken from How to Brew. I used the vodka method because I don’t have any taste safe sanitizer and not wanting to use water just in case of the off chance of it being sucked back in to the carboy and contaminating the beer. I moved the carboy to its new home for the next couple of weeks a.k.a. our hall closet.

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Just a few weeks now and I’ll be ready to bottle.

Excitement level is now steady at 3!

Just an update on day three. I just checked on the fermentation and the head has completely dropped. Might have to cancel the between TV show plans I had and rack to the secondary fermenter instead of dropping off a birthday present on the day of (Chris will understand).

An exciting note. I happened to inhale as I opened the bucket and it actually smells like beer! Not like wort!

Excitement has reached level 2.

If anyone has ever been to my place for some drinks they’ll know that it sometimes ends up like this. Although I would NEVER run out of beer. (I just might have some I don’t want to share! HAHA!)

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