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Finally had a chance to share the Mexican Cerveza with my friends a few days back and well, most of them loved it! Seemed that you can’t go wrong with the Cooper’s kit. I have tried the Australian Pale Ale, the Pilsener and now the Mexican Cerveza and it seemed that everyone enjoyed the brews. Anyway, there were some complains though. Some of them said that the beer was a bit too weak for their taste. I have to agree with them. I have not taken the readings when I made the brew so I am not too sure about the actual ABV of the beer but my best guess would be about 3%? It does really need some more kick to make this Mexican Cerveza a real beer. We are not wasting so much effort and time to make root beer right? So maybe the next time I do this brew again, I will be adding a little more dextrose. Do note that the Mexican Cerveza is actually a light lager and thus, is not supposed to be strong. But I think a more appropriate ABV should be like 4-5%.

I am also finding ways to make the colour of my brews lighter. From what I read in the forums, brews made from malt extracts will often be darker. This is mainly due to the malt extract preparation process as well as carmelization during boiling. There is no way to prevent carmelization from happening. Even with the late malt extraction method, the resulting beers will usually be darker than from what we see at the stores and from all-grain brewing. The boiling of bittering hops will require a amount of malt extract in the wort. And to add bitterness, you will have to boil the hops in the wort for perhaps 45 minutes to an hour. This will definitely darken the brew. Some people said that it’s the taste that is more important. To a certain extent I agree but the problem is getting beginner drinkers to drink homebrew. If you show them a dark coloured lager, I am sure most of them will freak out. In Singapore, most of us grow up on Tiger beer, a kind of light lager and with that, our concept of beer is all beers are light golden brews. I am not suprised that most Singaporeans had never seen an ale before in their life.

Anyway, I should be bottling my Apfelwein this week or next week. I am still have a slight cough and when you are sick, you should not brew. Definitely don’t want any germs to get into the beer (or wine). I must wait till my cough is completely cured before I attempt any brewing at all. I will keep you guys updated on what is happening to the Apfelwein. One of the complains I have is that it can be a little sour. This time, I have added two cinnamon sticks. Hopefully the cinnamon will impart some sweetness to the Apfelwein. And how appropriate, Christmas is coming! Good time to enjoy Christmas with Apfelwein!

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Anyone? Seriously considering to do a Wheat beer for my next brew and was hoping someone to give me a little suggestion or recommendation for a Wheat Beer. My original idea was just the Cooper’s Wheat Beer Kit, some Brew Enhancer 2 (that is dextrose and dried malt extract), some additional hops and that’s about it. But now I am thinking of something more “exciting” than just a plain old boring kit and enhancer type of beer. Life is too short to do the same thing over and over again, right?

I am also thinking of using some steeping grains as well. Not too sure what steeping grains will do to Wheat beers but hopefully, it will be able to add some body and flavour to the final product. And what type of steeping grains should I be using? From what I read, steeping grains are normally used for adding freshness, body, some fermentables, flavour and/or aroma to the brew. The problem with using extracts and kits (which are actually extracts) is that during the boiling or preparation process, some of the “freshness” and the aroma/flavour would be removed.  By using steeping grains, we are actually adding some of these “lost” properties back to the brew. Hey, it would be something (close to) like doing an all-grain setup. Of course, an all-grain setup also requires you to use fresh ingredients in order for the brew to turn out good.

Anyway, it will be two more weeks before I can do the Wheat beer and this gives me plenty of time to prepare for what I need. The Apfelwein needs a little more time to mature in the fermenter first. I will read about in the forums and give you guys a little heads up on what I am planning for the Wheat beer. Ciao!

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Just last week, I bottled the Mexican Cerveza and yes, I know, it is just too early to open up a bottle but I couldn’t resist myself. So today I went ahead and opened up a bottle of Mexcian Cerveza to have a taste. As expected there isn’t much carbonation even though the PET bottle was pretty firm to press. I guess even if the PET bottle was firm, it doesn’t really mean that it has the correct level of carbonation. However, the beer was pretty okay. I mean, it was okay to drink. Nothing great but I think it should go very well with my friends. I never expected this beer to be something extraordinary since all I wanted was it to be a refreshing and delicous drink for a warm day. Anyway, this is just a Cooper’s kit beer, so let’s not have our expectations too high eh?

Very nice golden colour. I had actually expected it to be even lighter than this. Perhaps it is because I took the photo in the wee morning and the sun is still not completely up yet. Yes, you can see a little carbonation but that’s about it.

Took a photo of the beer from the top. Nice head. It looks very foamy. It is just too bad that the head doesn’t last long.

Another photo of the Mexican Cerveza. Yes, from this photo you can see that there is hardly any carbonation left. This photo was taken right after I poured the beer from the bottle. That’s very pathetic if you ask me. Hopefully, there will be proper carbonation on the 2 week. I always assume that carbonation would be faster than the actual fermentation. But from what I read in the forums, it seems that it is not always true. Some brewers had good carbonation only after the 6 week in the bottle. In Singapore’s weather, it should be about 4 weeks or so. However, I don’t think my friends can wait so long for the beer to carbonate fully. Well…that’s life. Rush here, rush there.

Anyway, I will give you guys the heads up after I have shared them with my friends and see what they have to say about this. Remember that this is made using ale yeast instead of a lager yeast, so there might be some difference between a real Mexican Cerveza and this brew.

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It took about 3 weeks to arrive, probably due to the incomplete address of the parcel. I am not someone who complains a lot, but this got me a little pissed. The seller did not use the correct address from eBay (which I had updated correctly) but instead made use of the address of my Paypal account (which I used to pay for the stuff). I don’t understand why they did not use the mailing address as this is supposed to be the correct address to use when sending to their customers. Well, luckily, the name was correct and the delivery person finally got the parcel to me, one week late. Nevertheless, I have received the parcel in good order (and very well-packed) and I have taken photos of the stuff I bought.

The stuff I bought online are the Ginger beer concentrate, the Safale US-05 Ale yeast and a reusable nylong hop bag.  Yes, all of them are available in Singapore, but sometimes it is cheaper to get them from overseas and delivered to Singapore.

This is the 10 packs of Safale US-05 dry ale yeast. I have heard great things about this yeast and I am very keen to try this yeast out on my brews. Of course, this is not to say that the Nottingham yeast which I have been using is not good, just that I would like to try something new. And the price of the 10 pack is about US$16. Once converted, it is about S$27. If you purchase from the local homebrew store in Singapore, it would cost about S$75. Surely this is something to consider.

Due date is May 2009 which is quite good. The yeast packs will be kept in the fridge and hopefully, they will still be in good condition when the time comes for me to use them.

This Safale US-05 is an American ale yeast which will produce a well balanced beer with a very clear crisp end palate. That’s what I am looking for in my beers. I guess in Singapore we can only drink lagers. Looks like the sedimentation is medium which means that it can turn out to be a bit cloudy.  I wonder how well would it work on the Cooper’s Australian Pale Ale?

Lol, this is for making homebrew ginger beer. Not the alcoholic kind but those for the kids. Looks like this is an “old time flavor”, whatever that means. You cannot judge by the picture above, but the bottle is very small. And it is supposed to be about to make 4 Gallons of Ginger beer? I find it very doubtful that it could without making the end product taste like plain water.

Nice man, it contains natural gingers and ginseng flavours! Too bad it does come with preservatives (sodium benzoate). I wonder whether that would affect the yeast during carbonation.  Anyway, this would be a great way to try out ginger beer. I had been thinking of making a Ginger beer for sometime already and unlike the Cooper’s Ginger Beer kit which requires some work, this kit seems simple enough. Just pour a tablespoon of the concentrate into a soda bottle, add sugar, top up with some warm water, dissolve, then top up with some cold water and then add in the yeast. After a few days/weeks, you will get carbonated Ginger beer.

Yes, it is a tiny bottle. I still can’t get over the thing that this tiny weeny little bottle can make 15 litres of Ginger beer.  In the box, there are some instructions. Well, when the time comes for me to make the Ginger beer, I will sure to read them. For now, it goes into the fridge.

That’s the 8″ x 9 1/4″ Nylon hop bag. Nothing spectacular here. Just a bag for holding hops when boiling the wort. Since the tea bags which I have been using is now running low on stock, I guess buying something which can be reused makes sense.I am thinking of just going to those convenience store and buying nylon covers for taps. I have seen them selling and it cost like S$0.50 per piece. Cheap, much much cheaper than this “special” nylon bag.

Anyway, that’s the end of the photos which I have taken. Bye.

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Ahh…looks like I am getting booked till Christmas. No, it is not that I am being invited for parties but my friends would like me to make beer or apple cider for them.  Too bad, I always wanted to be invited to parties but it seems that I am not that popular. However, the good thing is that my beers and ciders are. I have plans to make 2 batches of beer and 1 batch of Apple Cider (Apfelwein). So to ensure that everything is ready for Christmas, I have to start brewing now. And I am lacking in bottles. I doubt that I can make so many batches of alcoholic beverages without buying addition bottles. Or maybe I should go and steal some glass bottles from my local coffee shops. They have tons of bottles there and they don’t seem to mind that I am grabbing bottles from them. In fact, I think they are very happy that I am getting the used bottles off their hands so that they don’t need to dispose the bottles themselves.

Anyway, I will be making perhaps an Australian Pale Ale (my favourite), a Wheat beer and the Apfelwein. That would be 23×3 litres of fine alcohol! And this means that some people will be very happy on these parties. For the Australian Pale Ale, it would take about 3 weeks. For the Wheat beer, it should take about 2 weeks as Wheats usually don’t need much aging for it to taste good. The longest time to brew is the Apfelwein, which I think would probably take about 2 months to be mature enough for drinking. Well, the thing about strong alcohol is that it requires some time to age and mature. And for this batch, I think I would make some changes to the recipe. I will be adding about 2 Cinnamon sticks to the brew to give it a little more taste. I find it a bit too tart. And I need to find an Apple Juice which don’t taste sour, as the residual sourness will remain and that makes the brew less “appley” too. I think the Harvey Fresh Apple Juice (available at our local supermarkets) should be good enough to ensure some sweetness. I will then be using this as the base of the Apfelwein.

As you know, I have already purchased the ingredients to make the Wheat beer. It will be yet another simple brew. Just the Cooper’s Wheat Beer kit, 1kg of Brew Enhancer 2, some Nottingham yeast and we are all done. Hopefully it will turn out great. I will be doing this last as this Wheat beer doesn’t require much aging. Don’t you just love simple recipes and the result is still great tasting! Life can be good. And the best part, it doesn’t have to be expensive.

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Yes, today is Mexican Cerveza Brew Day! After about 2 months without brewing any beer, I am all worked up about brewing some nice refreshing beer. Ad from what I read about the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza, it is going to be one very refreshing drink.  Looking at how dusty and warm Mexico is, I am sure that this beer is meant for Singaporeans in Singapore’s weather. The recipe is simple. Just the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza Beer Ingredient kit (1.7kg), 1kg of Brew Enhancer 2 (which is 30% dry malt extract and 70% dextrose) with some additional Cascade hops. Oh, I will be using Nottingham ale yeast as usual. Hopefully the yeast won’t change the flavour of the brew too much. I know that this Cerveza is supposed to be a lager but as you probably know, I can’t lager in Singapore’s weather.

Anyway, this will be just a partial boil, so it will be about 8 litres of concentrated wort when I am done. To make up 23 litres, I will be adding a mix of mineral water and tap water. Yes, it is next to impossible for people who live in small HDB flats to have a full setup for making full boils as the equipment needed is huge (something to hold 23 litres of wort would require about 30 litre brewing pot!)  and the flame source would also have to be big. So, I guess we are all stuck with making partial boils. Even without full boil, partial boils do make a decent beer. My friends like it, so do I. That is probably more important than anything else.

Okay, I think I will start with photos I have taken during the brewing process.

That’s the ingredients needed for making beer. On the left, you have the Mexican Cerveza Beer ingredient kit, next will be the Yeast nutrients, the bottom will be the Nottingham yeast pack while the last two are the Brew Enhancer 2 and the Cascade hops in a tea bag. I am using about 10g of Cascade hops. This will just be a aroma/flavour addition, not to add any bitterness to the beer.

A closeup of the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza Beer kit. It is looking good! I just bought it out from the fridge so it looks a bit wet. They are just condensation.

The due date of the kit. Still got about 8 months to go so it should be pretty good for brewing.

That’s me rehydrating the yeast.  Bascially you dump the yeast in a sanitized container with cooled boiled water. This is to ensure that the yeast will get enough water to rebuild their cells when the time comes for them to reproduce and make alcohol for us to enjoy. Another reason is to wake up the yeast and not to shock them too much as we will soon need to put them into a sugar rich environment.Yes, those are my feet. Sexy or not?

Oh by the way, we should be using lager yeast instead if ale yeast in order to emulate the correct “Mexican beer” flavour but as you guys know, in Singapore it is difficult to lager as the weather is just not suitable for lagers. So, I choose Nottingham yeast in order to get that clean profile.

Boiling water. Although Cooper’s instructions are just to add boiling water and the kit ingredients to the fermenter, I always think that it is a good idea to do a partial boil. This is to kill any bacteria in the water/yeast/malt plus it allows us to add any additional hops we want. However, if you are not adding any hops to the wort, I think doing it the Cooper’s way should be okay.

I have added the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza kit into the boiling water.

Once it starts boiling again, I have added the Brew Enhancer 2 and hops into the wort.  Don’t you just love cascade hops? Oh, the yeast nutrients was also added at this time. The nutrients will ensure that the yeast be healthy enough when it starts producing the fine taste alcohol we are all craving for.

Now, I dump the entire contents of the brew pot to the fermenter and then top up with mineral water and tap water.  Oh, by the water, I made a big mistake. I forgot to close the spigot tap on the fermenter when I poured in the wort. So the concentrated wort leaked out and about 10% was lost. What a big waste. Anyway, it was a lesson learned. Always check the spigot tap before pouring in precious wort to the fermenter. If not, a lot of your hardwork will be lost and you will be left with a weaker beer. I am sure that we don’t do homebrew just to drink plain water eh?

Please check up with me in a few weeks time and I will tell you guys the result of this brew.Let’s all keep our fingers cross that it will turn out fine.

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Yes, it is going to be yet another beer brewing day for me tomorrow. My beer brewing ingredients have arrived! I believe that tomorrow I will be doing the Mexican Cerveza.  Now I have never tried making this style of beer before but apparently there isn’t much to it. Just the same as the Australian Pale Ale I have done before. Basically you get the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza ingredient kit and then add the Beer Enhancer 2 (which consists of dextrose, malt and malto-dextrin) to it. And you will get the refreshing beer which all Mexicans love. From the movies, I had thought that Mexians are always drinking Tequilla or something, guess I was wrong. I think I will be adding a little Cascade hops to the brew while I am at it. My friends don’t like a beer which is too bitter so I will need to ensure that the brew will not turn out to be like too hoppy and bitter and the information from Cooper’s website is that this is one of the less bitter brews out there. So with just a little more hops, hopefully this will turn out to be a crowd pleaser as well.

Anyhow, I have taken some pictures of the stuff that came in today. The iBrew guy came and delivered the stuff in the morning. I was jumping about like a little bunny when it came. Na, I am not that excitable but I am glad that it arrived on time. If not, I will be unable to brew till 2 weeks later. Next weekend, I will be too busy to do any sort of brewing as my nephew would have to come first.

That’s the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza Beer Ingredient Kit. Looks very good in golden yellow. Makes me feel happy inside. Don’t you feel happy inside when you see golden yellow stuff?

1.7Kg of Beer goo, ready to be made into 23 litres of fine delicious beer for the whole family. Well, not exactly for the whole family but perhaps for just the adults.  By the way, this is the International Series from Cooper’s. They have Australian Pale Ale, European Lager and Candian Blonde in this series. I am planning to try them all.

They are telling you that the beer is light in style, comes with a fresh clean taste and ideally served ice cold with a wedge of lime or lemon. Whatever. Just drink it when it is done. All beers should be drank ice cold anyway. And in Singapore (or Mexico), drinking beer ice cold is the only way to go about it.

It comes with some crappy yeast which I am not going to use. I am using my trusted Nottingham yeast to emulate that clean neutral taste which this Cerveza is supposed to be all about. This yeast pack is going to be stored in my fridge as spare yeast.

Bought another kit – it is the Cooper’s Wheat Beer. No, I am not going to make yet another Hoegaarden clone. But it will be a simple recipe Wheat Beer. Just the kit and yet another Beer Enhancer 2 and we will then see what’s the result. I forgot to purchase a Wheat beer yeast so that could be a problem. A wheat beer yeast should bring out the flavour of a real wheat beer more than an ale or a lager yeast would. Well, we will see what to do when the time comes for me to brew.

Champagne of the beer world? Really? That would be great. And they claim that Wheat beers are a great summer refresher and low in bitterness! Those are exactly what I need. Singapore is warm and Singaporeans can’t take stuff which are bitter so I am very certain Wheat beers is the thing they need.

Ya ya ya ya. Anyway, looking at the information on the beer can, this Wheat beer is part of the Cooper’s Brewmaster Selection and is part of the range of Indian Pale Ale, Irish Stout and Pilsener(which I had done once).  This series, the Indian Pale Ale and the Irish Stout is a big no no for me. My friends won’t like hoppy beers and the Irish Stout will cause them to faint on sight.

That’s the yeast provided by the kit. If I am not wrong, this is supposed to be the Cooper’s premium yeast (check out the difference between the packages of this yeast and the previous yeast. The one with the bearded old guy is the yeast which is supposed to be premium).  I am again at odds whether to use this yeast. First of all, I don’t trust the yeast provided in the cans. And secondly, I have no idea what exactly is the strain of yeast in this pack. Is this really for Wheat beer? Or is it just ale yeast. If it is so, then I would rather use my favourite Nottingham yeast. Ahhh….decisions decisions.

That’s the new iBrew Enhancer 2 which is a mix of 30% light malt extract and 70% dextrose. Hmmm….seems that there is no longer any Cooper’s Brew Enhancer 2 anymore. And no more Malto-Dextrin? Boohooo, I want a strong head in my beer!

Yeast nutrients for the yeast. Just like vitamins we take every morning, a little yeast nutrients is great for the little yeasties which help produce the alcohol we all crave. My previous batch is about to finish so I need to replenish my supply of Yeast nutrients.

Straight ‘A’ Cleanser. Not really a sanitzer but more like a cleanser. The main purpose of this for me is to clean the bottles of gunk and stuff which nobody would like to have in their beer bottles. Or perhaps I should just get a bottle brush instead. But my lazy half tells me that just adding some Straight ‘A’ and water works well too. Well waste energy when you can spend that energy opened up bottles and drinking more beer or wine?

Well, this is the end of the photos I have. Tomorrow, I will be taking photos of the Mexican Cerveza brew day. Let’s hope that tomorrow will be a fine day for brewing beer.

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I am pretty sure by now that you guys are tired of me making claims about making this drink or this beer or that beer but in the end, I never did. Well, that’s a poor habit of mine.  I am certain that some of you guys are also guilty of doing it as well. Well, for me I am doing it all the time. Can’t really help myself. I have this feeling that I need to do something like making this or that beer, but when the time comes for me to actually doing it, I don’t have the time or don’t have the energy to do it. I guess this is life. Really, it can’t be helped.

But this time, I am doing it for sure. Why you might ask. Well, first of all, I have already ordered the stuff needed to make the Ginger beer. I got this “kit” online from ebay and they will ship the Ginger beer ingredient kit to me. It cost about US$5.95 plus about another US$5 for shipping. Not that expensive, considering that in the local store sells their Ginger Beer kit for S$30. And secondly, it is very easy to do. Just mix the kit ingredients in hot water, then fill up with cold water. After which you add the yeast and mix them thoroughly. The next step is to bottle the Ginger beer. To get carbonation, you will need to add sugar. The process is merely adding sugar to the bottles and topping up with the ginger beer. Just wait a few weeks and you will get some nice delicious ginger beer. Of course, this is non-alcoholic which means that kids can enjoy it as well.There is no need to go and hunt for ginger and cut them and so on. Easy. Life should be easy and so does making Ginger beer.

The reason why I chose to make Ginger beer is because it is actually very healthy. In Singapore, you can see a lot of people drinking ginger tea which is supposed to stimulate digestion, boosts circulation and help supports the liver. If you have flu or a cold, a ginger tea will definitely help. So I guess if you drink Ginger beer, it should have the same effect. I am not that keen to go out and dig for ginger so this should be the next best thing.

Anyway, I was browsing the ebay store which sells the ingredients and I found that they do sell many types of home made soda drinks like root beer, spruce beer, birch beer and so on. Kind of interesting since I have never tasted many of these soft drinks before. I doubt you can find Spruce beer or birchh beer in Singapore anywhere. From what I read, the spruce beer tastes like Cola and the birch beer taste like root beer. Hmmm….

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What do you guys think of Wheat beer? Have you guys ever drank Wheat beer before? If you have no idea what a Wheat beer is, then I should explain a little further. Normally, a beer is made from barley. So what they do is get the malts from barley and this is later processed into beer. However, for a Wheat beer, a portion of the grains involved is wheat. Not completely wheat but just perhaps like about 20% to 50% wheat in their brew and they taste rather different from traditional barley based beer. If you have never drank Wheat beer before, you will find the taste of Wheat beer a little lighter in taste but in my opinion, more refreshing. However, please understand that there are a lot of varieties of Wheat beer. They ranged from spice based Wheat beers to ale like beers.

The most important aspect of Wheat beer is that it should be refreshing. So a Wheat beer normally isn’t that strong in alcohol content. Its main purpose is made for easy drinking. I myself I have a few Wheat beers before and I like it. The most popular choice of Wheat beers in Singapore is Hoegaarden. Yes, it’s a sissy drink and only teenagers drink them. But I like it. I am not too sure how to put it but there is something delicious about Hoegaarden. I think it has something to do with the spices in that beer. Anyway, if you guys have been reading this blog, you would remember that I had attempted to make a Hoegaarden clone a few months back. It failed badly because the beer kit ingredients were not fresh and it turned out much darker than what a Hoegaarden should be. For the taste wise, I think I could have overdone it with too much spices. It made the beer taste sticky and weird.  I guess the reason why people (like me) like Wheat beers is because it is easy to drink. So if you add in too much spices, you will change the taste till it feels like something else.

So for my next Wheat beer brew, I will be making something simple. Just a can of Cooper’s Wheat beer ingredient kit, Cooper’s Beer Enhancer 2 (Malt, Dextrose and Malto-dextrin) and perhaps a Wheat beer yeast. I believe that I will be adding some Saaz hops into the brew as well. From what little information I have on the Cooper’s Wheat beer, I discovered that this Wheat beer kit may turn out to be a little too sweet. That Saaz hops should help balance out the extra sweetness from the Beer Enhancer 2. And truly, the aroma and flavour from the Saaz hops will really make the beer taste great.

Well, it is time for me to go order the stuff needed for this brew. And I should be brewing this weekend. Hopefully.

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For my next brew, I am seriously thinking about making some Mexican Cerveza. One thing I heard about Mexican Cerveza is that it is a beer/lager especially made for sunny weather. We all know how Mexico is right? I mean from the movies. Most of us have never been in Mexico. We see that Mexico is some sort of a warm, dusty country with a lot of bars and people with big mustaches who can’t really speak English. And if it works for Mexicans, it should work for Singaporeans, for in Singapore, it is just like Mexico. The people here can’t speak a word of proper English and it is warm and dusty. So what better than to cool down after a hard day’s work by drinking some nice refreshing Cerveza eh? As I said before, life is great if you make it great.

So I guess I will be ordering the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza kit these few days. I will be doing this yet another for a friend. He wasn’t really too particular with what he and his friend is drinking but I guess first impressions last, so I think I will be a bit more conservatives. For this Cerveza brew, I will be getting the 1.7kg Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza beer goo and the 1kg Cooper’s Beer Enhancer 2. That’s what Cooper’s recommend and that’s what I will be getting. Surely if the recipe is recommended by Cooper’s, we won’t go wrong there. But I am guessing that there will definitely be ways to improve on the pretty simple recipe. Maybe I will be adding some hops to it as well. Some people recommend Cascade hops which is a bit fruity and just right for a Mexian Cerveza. Well, I might be trying that just for the fun of it.

If you guys remember, one of my previous beers I made was the Australian Pale Ale. And after conditioning it for about 1 month or so, I will be sending it for a taste test at my friends’ bbq lunch. Hopefully, everyone will leave with some great impression about home brewed beer. Those two batches had some pretty strong alcohol in it but that could be a problem. A lot of them are driving and I am rather worried. So the best thing to do is to bring about just 3 bottles of beer instead. That should limit the amount of alcohol consumed to a safe level for people to drive home.

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