Where beer and pregnancy converge

That's scandalous! Beer and pregnancy never converge! Yes they do actually. We're brewing a very special beer that will be ready right around the time the baby arrives. Beers that take that long to age are usually what the beeristi call "high gravity" which is a euphamism for "they will get you very drunk very quickly". In our case, we've gone for a Belgian Dubbel. It took so much malt, we needed to use a colander instead of the usual cheesecloth bag.

This idea came from K's co-worker who did a sobriety-busting Imperial IPA. She noted that for the first half hour after the baby arrives, you've got free rein to drink booze, so they wanted something very special for that, rather than your typical Cook's "champagne" or if you're my brother at the arrival of our niece last year, a tallboy of Budweiser.