WOOOOO!!
(As in this commercial [ame]http://youtu.be/dWzH_D8SQwI[/ame]
First batch ever got put into bottles today.
(don't tell anyone it took me a couple hours start>finish)
NB Caribou Slobber. 3wks Primary, 1wk Secondary.
Had a few mishaps, but I don't appreciate any off-flavors from tasting the uncarbonated hydrometer samples.
I ended up getting 43 regular bottles, plus 2 bombers out of this batch. (a little trick I picked up from HBT-- put a beer in a bomber and just forget about it. Then try it in 6mos/1yr to see how it ages.)
Sanitized bottles on the tree, about to rack from 2ndary to Bottling bucket:
.....aaaaaaaaannd, beer.
I've only started maybe 2 threads, but read and read and read this forum for weeks straight while I was waiting for my Groupon "appt date" to pick up my starter kit from a LHBS.
All that knowledge really paid off, thanks guys
(As in this commercial [ame]http://youtu.be/dWzH_D8SQwI[/ame]
First batch ever got put into bottles today.
(don't tell anyone it took me a couple hours start>finish)
NB Caribou Slobber. 3wks Primary, 1wk Secondary.
Had a few mishaps, but I don't appreciate any off-flavors from tasting the uncarbonated hydrometer samples.
I ended up getting 43 regular bottles, plus 2 bombers out of this batch. (a little trick I picked up from HBT-- put a beer in a bomber and just forget about it. Then try it in 6mos/1yr to see how it ages.)
Sanitized bottles on the tree, about to rack from 2ndary to Bottling bucket:
.....aaaaaaaaannd, beer.
I've only started maybe 2 threads, but read and read and read this forum for weeks straight while I was waiting for my Groupon "appt date" to pick up my starter kit from a LHBS.
All that knowledge really paid off, thanks guys