SteveM
Well-Known Member
Mine is now in the bottle. I just finished cleaning up ten minutes ago (at which time I was tossed from the kitchen).
The yield was about what I expect - just over four gallons in the bottling bucket. It came out to 4.5 bottles short of two cases (12 ounce bottles). This is an all time low for me but was not unexpected. The half bottle I tried and even rough, sludgy and flat, it was tasty. It also tasted quite strong (as in, alcohol content). I was hoping for this.
The clarity is nice - a week in the primary, a week in the secondary with 36 ounces of blueberries, and a week in the tertiary (really, the secondary cleaned out and resanitized while my beer waited in my primary bucket). Plus Irish Moss, which I wanted to use because my last fruit beer, made using rice solids, was kind of cloudy.
If it tastes good, I will post the whole recipe. The last four bottles, I had to tilt the bottling bucket to get. No way I was leaving them in there!! These have a different cap from all the others and are my test bottles. I will probably pop one around Wednesday or Thursday.
Here's hoping!
The yield was about what I expect - just over four gallons in the bottling bucket. It came out to 4.5 bottles short of two cases (12 ounce bottles). This is an all time low for me but was not unexpected. The half bottle I tried and even rough, sludgy and flat, it was tasty. It also tasted quite strong (as in, alcohol content). I was hoping for this.
The clarity is nice - a week in the primary, a week in the secondary with 36 ounces of blueberries, and a week in the tertiary (really, the secondary cleaned out and resanitized while my beer waited in my primary bucket). Plus Irish Moss, which I wanted to use because my last fruit beer, made using rice solids, was kind of cloudy.
If it tastes good, I will post the whole recipe. The last four bottles, I had to tilt the bottling bucket to get. No way I was leaving them in there!! These have a different cap from all the others and are my test bottles. I will probably pop one around Wednesday or Thursday.
Here's hoping!