Brew Log

Bottled the gingerbread ale. I forgot to take the FG reading. Because I knew that Dan's brew was really overpowering on the spice, I strained all the spice off the top, hoping it would mellow in the fermentor. I used more 12 oz bottles than usual, first because I had them avai...

Two days of productivity. Back to back. The Bottles are all washed up and ready for Franz. This beer is really sediment heavy. Not just in a wheat beer way. It's got the clay. Final Gravity: 1.013 - 4.6% ABV (recipe called for 1.012) I am well pleased with this beer. It is a g...

I bottled this beer, apparently. According to my notes and the fact that I have drank it all since, yeah, it was bottled. The separated chocolate sludge never did dissolve or settle, though it did leech the color out. Final Gravity: 1.013 - 5.38% ABV It tastes good, but there...

FINALLY. The apple stuff is done bubbling and has been inactive for a few days. I don't really like apple juice. I don't really like apple cider.I really don't like wine.I don't really drink liquor. Why did I do this again? Final Gravity: 1.021 - 8.27% ABV This bottling was th...

Not sure why I took so many pictures... I washed up and sanitized all of my bottles and bottling accessories. Along with cleaning up the kitchen, the whole process ends up taking hours. I've always got some music or a podcast going. This bottling day was accompanied by Master...

Code name: Strawbeery After a week in secondary with strawberries, it was time to bottle the remaining four gallons. The strawberries had turned yellowish-gray and the beer was pink. Because of the problems with the butterfly capper the previous weekend, I designed and built "...

I took the four glass fermenting jars and added varying amounts of strawberries that had soaked overnight in vodka. The idea was to later bottle the beer individually out of these jars and figure out which ratio of strawberries to beer tasted best. For some reason, final gravi...