I've noticed. Just in the week or so it's been in there it's gotten noticeably better. I bottled a few for this weekend and they were a hit. Probably gonna bottle about a case worth for the weekend of the 4th. I think this will be the motivation I need to upgrade to 10 gallon batches.
Here's my 14 day old first attempt at a lager. Still a little young, but not bad at all. Only change I made to the recipe was S189 for my yeast. Gonna bottle some this weekend and see what the family thinks...
Just took a gravity reading. 1.014. I put it back in the ferm freezer and set it to 40 to crash cool. Once its clear, I'm gonna dry hop for a week or 2 on 2 ounces of cascade hops then force Carb in my new kegging set up. This is also the first time I really enjoyed my hydrometer sample, even...
Thats what I was thinking. I can just about get two better bottles for the price of one glass carboy. Then I can ferment multiple beers at the same time.
Little update- Got home from work last night and the airlock was bubbling away. I'll check the gravity in about a week. Also, I think I'm gonna get some kind of clear carboy for the next batch. I'd really like a better view of my fermenting wort.
So I've made several partial boil extract batches, some good, some so-so. I figured it was time to move up to all grain, so I picked up a turkey fryer and a cooler to build a MLT with. I went down to my new LHBS and got the following ingredients for my first all grain, a simple IPA:
10.25lb...