10-09-2022, 11:16 PM
It's been a full month now with the beer in the fermentation bucket. It hadn't been working for a week but when I added the priming sugar to the batch to bottle it, it was still reacting. I went with the rule of thumb of using 2/3 cup of sucrose to 5 gallons beer to prime it for bottling. Actually I had four gallons so I used just a little under 1/2 a cup.
I bottled 24 twelve oz bottles and had a few quarts left, so I decided to drink a few 12 oz glasses to get an idea of how buzzed I might get (waste not want not). Of course it was flat, except the primer sugar gave it a little sizzle. The hops had mellowed but were still really strong, dry and peppery. It has a short lived foamy head, medium body, smells sweet and fruity, and was slightly sweeter than I would like, likely due to the sugar I was using to keep it fermenting as long as I did. It might get drier with age and it will be at least a week to build up the carbonation in the bottles. I put the bottles outside in a cooler so if they blow, it should be safe.
After about a half a glass I was like yeah, feeling it, and it went down pretty easy when cold. After the second glass I was getting wasted, after the third one, I could barely stumble into bed. Just as good as that 9% ABV beer I drank a couple weekends ago. Then the slight hangover this morning was another success, just some dusty cobwebs. I thought if it was so green, it may cause me to puke or have bowel disruptions and gas, but none of that, just a little reminder hangover, nothing that slowed me down.
I need to buy some wine bottles now for the wine, I won't be priming that, just bottle it with a cork is what I'm thinking.
I bottled 24 twelve oz bottles and had a few quarts left, so I decided to drink a few 12 oz glasses to get an idea of how buzzed I might get (waste not want not). Of course it was flat, except the primer sugar gave it a little sizzle. The hops had mellowed but were still really strong, dry and peppery. It has a short lived foamy head, medium body, smells sweet and fruity, and was slightly sweeter than I would like, likely due to the sugar I was using to keep it fermenting as long as I did. It might get drier with age and it will be at least a week to build up the carbonation in the bottles. I put the bottles outside in a cooler so if they blow, it should be safe.
After about a half a glass I was like yeah, feeling it, and it went down pretty easy when cold. After the second glass I was getting wasted, after the third one, I could barely stumble into bed. Just as good as that 9% ABV beer I drank a couple weekends ago. Then the slight hangover this morning was another success, just some dusty cobwebs. I thought if it was so green, it may cause me to puke or have bowel disruptions and gas, but none of that, just a little reminder hangover, nothing that slowed me down.
I need to buy some wine bottles now for the wine, I won't be priming that, just bottle it with a cork is what I'm thinking.