homebrewer_99
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Some of you may remember I recommend blending or mixing 2 (relatively) bad batches to make 1 good one before thinking about toss both away? Well, it came to that for me today.
In my storage room I "found" a "lost" 6er of batch # 5014, a Hefe Weizen, that I brewed on 4 Sep 05 and bottled on 8 Oct 05. Checking my notes, it was on the sweet side because I used 7 lbs of malt and only 1 oz of bittering hops.
Recently, I "inadvertently" miscalculated the bittering hops for #6017, my Hoppy Beerthday Weizen, making it more bitter than I expected (silly mistake, really), still very much drinkable, just about on the 55-60% of bitter where I prefer the 51% sweet to 49% bitter flavor.
Well, taking my own advice, I blended 4 - 0,5 liter bottles in a jug (2 from each batch) and now have a slowly dwindling jug of some good tasting Weizen.
Incidently, I only have a few bottles left so I will fancifully rename these last remaining bottles either "In with the Old and In with the New" or '05 Plus 06 Equal 11 because they were bottled 11 months from each other...OK, while that's all true, I'm not going to rename squat and just keep drinking...
Just wanted to let everyone know that I talk the brew talk and I walk the brew walk... :rockin:...blending DOES work (but I knew that).
In my storage room I "found" a "lost" 6er of batch # 5014, a Hefe Weizen, that I brewed on 4 Sep 05 and bottled on 8 Oct 05. Checking my notes, it was on the sweet side because I used 7 lbs of malt and only 1 oz of bittering hops.
Recently, I "inadvertently" miscalculated the bittering hops for #6017, my Hoppy Beerthday Weizen, making it more bitter than I expected (silly mistake, really), still very much drinkable, just about on the 55-60% of bitter where I prefer the 51% sweet to 49% bitter flavor.
Well, taking my own advice, I blended 4 - 0,5 liter bottles in a jug (2 from each batch) and now have a slowly dwindling jug of some good tasting Weizen.
Incidently, I only have a few bottles left so I will fancifully rename these last remaining bottles either "In with the Old and In with the New" or '05 Plus 06 Equal 11 because they were bottled 11 months from each other...OK, while that's all true, I'm not going to rename squat and just keep drinking...
Just wanted to let everyone know that I talk the brew talk and I walk the brew walk... :rockin:...blending DOES work (but I knew that).