Bread and Ale

I started my first batch of beer yesterday. It's a blood orange ale. I was surprised to discover the process was pretty easy. It was mostly cooking. Here's my wort:


And then, I used this recipe and my spent grain to make this deliciousness:


It was a bizarrely productive couple of days that also involved sewing a dress from re-purposed fabrics and rigging a trapeze on my back porch. I feel sort of medieval. But in a good way. Bread, beer, new clothes, and old-school circus apparatus do wonders for my soul.