Fermentation!

That one word text-messaged to me by James made me a very happy man. Well, thats not to exciting you may say...but it is. Typically, the wort will start fermenting within 12 to 36 hours. I believe ours took a total of 38 hours. This could be due to any number of reasons, but is probably because we didn't aerate the wort enough. All we really did was smack the water with a plastic spoon, I think all we succeeded in doing was making a bigger mess and a hell of a lot of foam. That, or maybe the yeast was just too cold (it was outside the fridge, but it was after midnight before we pitched the yeast and was about 45 outside).

Anyways, we had all but given up hope that we would have to re-pitch the yeast, or worse that we would have to dump the carboy out and start over. But no! Our wort is now happily fermenting and is on it's way to becoming real beer.

I've never been so proud.