shafferpilot
Well-Known Member
So I'm bottling my new Christmas Stout recipe this evening and discovered a hidden score deluxe! I started kegging a few years ago and rarely bottle anymore.... unless it's the sort of beer I know needs to age for a while. So I'm shuffling around boxes of bottles, and low and behold, I find an entire case of a Brewer's Best Irish Stout I made almost 4 years ago. I think this was my 4th batch ever. I seem to remember it didn't carb up and I used half of it in cooking and a few give aways for friends to let sit in their closets for a while in the hopes some would carb eventually.... So I'm thinking, "maybe they finally straightened out and may still be good enough to drink" so rather than put some in the fridge and wait for them to cool and dissolve CO2, I decide to crack one and poor it at room temp and see what I have. Holy Heck, Batman, not only is it nicely carbed, this is one suprisingly darn good beer! I'm so pumped! AND I think I need to be sure and bottle from time to time so I can have this glorious birthday/Christmas kind of experience again! It's like finding $20 in a pair of jeans when fall first hits ONLY BETTER