Saturday, March 28, 2009

Snowy Spring Day

So far, we're pretty sure we haven't fucked this up.


We siphoned the beer from the large carboy to the smaller one and managed to leave behind the batter-like layer of dead yeast. Although it looks very dark and stout-like in the picture, the beer is actually a light coppery brown, much like you'd expect from a pale ale. Our biggest concern now is that it looks a bit thin, possibly because the malt wasn't extracted quite right. It's too early to tell whether the finished beer will have the right thickness.


Once transferred into the smaller carboy, we added the final packet of hop pellets. We saved a portion of the pre-dry-hopped batch and measured the specific gravity - 1.019. The last thing we did before cleaning was a taste test. It was a little sweet but otherwise hoppy and finally tasted closer to real beer. Once it ferments more and loses the sweetness, it should taste like what you'd expect from an English IPA.

Dry hopping:


Measuring:

1 comment:

  1. i like the contents of that last shot. you know, cantaloupe, bagels, nalgene, beaker to measure the specific gravity of beer....the basic home essentials.

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