In the can

We are in the can. yeast fully hydrated hopefully eating away at the delicious goodness we fed to them tonight. 6.5 gallons of what hopefully will turn out to be something nearly indistinguishable from Sierra Nevada (located in Chico, CA)'s Pale Ale. We absolutely fucking nailed our target color and gravity (1.049 for those of you scoring at home). This is a first for us considering that we have heretofore had to throw in a random package of dry extract ("you think this will bring our gravity needs to be?" "fuck it. throw it in"). The perfection of this month's concoction only exacerbating the pain over neglecting to add the clarifying agent at 10 minutes to go in the boil. Oh well. Hazy Sierra tastes just as good as the real thing, I suppose (hope). With any luck, by this time tomorrow we will see an explosion of CO2 pumping out of the blow-off tube in my downstairs closet. Fingers crossed.