The importance of patience

**shecky** · 06-18-2008, 02:18 AM

I am a patient person and can wait for my beers to condition in the bottles. But on the advice of others here, I experimented a bit this time around.

Chilled and drank one bottle of a Blind Faith clone after 8 days in the bottle. The caramel sweetness from the crystal overpowered the hops. It was drinkable, surely, but not great.

Chilled and drank another after 15 days. Caramel faded but only a bit. The long hop finish appeared a bit more.

Chilled and drank one today after 23 days in the bottle. Just a hint of caramel at the start, nice malty flavor in the middle and a hop finish that lasted what felt like 10 minutes. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

What a great obsession.

Professor Frink · 06-18-2008, 02:23 AM

Stock up, it's the only way to guarantee you'll wait. I always try to have a beer or two in secondary.

**shecky** · 06-18-2008, 02:29 AM

I'm stocking up, definitely. Bottled a summer ale Friday. Planning to make a Brooklyn Brown clone next week and still have 43 bottles of the Blind Faith to go.

Most of my efforts now are geared toward a couple PM attempts and then AG. It's the equipment (I'm not all that handy) and the costs (SWMBO insists the kids and the mortgage take precedence) that are holding back further efforts.

homebrewer_99 · 06-18-2008, 02:59 AM

I always tell everyone it's better to wait...sounds like you have a winner on your hands. Congrats!!