Better Late than Never (Bottling Wheat Ale)

29Apr08

Finally bottled the wheat ale tonight. FG 1.010. Not going to be very high in alcohol content, but hopefully will have plenty of flavor. I got 37 12oz bottles and 2 22oz bottles (the latter of which I cellared).
There won’t be a brew night in May due to heavy travel schedule (I [...]

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Update (Rack Alert!)

18Apr08

Tonight I checked the Wheat Ale. It’s fermented a bit further, down to 1.012. I’m going to let it sit another day and see if it drops a little more before I bottle. It could mean letting it sit until I get back into town, but it’ll live.
The more exciting news is [...]

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Fermentation Update (Monday)

14Apr08

SG on the Wheat Ale:  1.020 (or thereabouts).  I added some more yeast because I don’t think it’s done fermenting yet, and aerated it.
SG on the Mead, 1.030.  I’ll rack it into a secondary as soon as I can, maybe tomorrow night, but tonight I am going to go to bed.  Makes sense to do [...]

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Wheat Ale (and update)

09Apr08

Tonight we brewed a Belgian Wheat Ale.  I was trying for something a little higher gravity than we ended up with, but I’m still learning how all this works.  It was a little higher gravity than the last wheat ale I tried, coming in at 1.030.
I’ll let you know how it comes out in a [...]

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Tomorrow

08Apr08

Tomorrow night, April 9th, is this month’s brew night at my house from 8-11.  If you’ve never been (and would like to go) drop a comment here with your email address and I’ll get you the details and add you to the invite list.
I’ll see some of you there!

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