ahoym8e

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OMFG it tastes awesome! I am so excited about this I had to start a separate thread (noone looks at my otherone anymore anyways).

It has been 5 full days since brew day. The airlock has stopped bubbling, and tall the krausen has settled back into the liquid. There's about a 1/4 inch layer of sediment on the bottom.

It is very cloudy, and looks like a light colored Hefeweizen (it is supposed to be a Lager like ale). Gravity is down to 1.003 from 1.040.

It is slightly carbonated (weird, as it is coming from the primary), and even formed a little head as I poured it into the beaker.

It is not too hoppy, and not too malty. It is a wee bit on the bitter side. It really tastes like that Fosters Extra Special Bitter, just better, and without the icky bile odor Fosters has.

I am so tickled I could do backflips. Not sure what to do about the clarity, but with taste like this, who needs clarity...

Walker

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That's not weird. There is going to be about 1 volume of CO2 in your fermented beer prior to bottling/kegging, so it will have a small amount of fizz to it. (1 volume = the amount of gas that standard atmospheric pressure will keep in solution.. when you bottle it, the generated CO2 will increase the pressure inside the bottle and keep more gas in solution.)

-walker

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It's always great when a brew turns out. A couple weeks in a secondary will clarify it nicely.

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