I dropped my carboy!

Ok, I'm just kidding.

I came close to dropping a full 5-gallon (glass!) carboy only once before. That was way back when I first started homebrewing mead. What a nightmare that would have been! In fact I remember having moderately disturbing dreams where I was spending hours mopping up the mess. Whew!

I picked up a nice big 20 pound bag of Kokuho Rose rice Sunday night. It ran me right at $20. That's a big improvement compared to buying rice 5 or 6 months ago when it cost more.

I now have everything I need to brew my first batch, except I have a few strains of wine and champagne yeast from brewing mead instead of a sake yeast. Those will work but I might order some sake #9 today for next time.

Off to go wash and sanitize everything... I love being on vacation!