Saturday, October 06, 2007

I kegged 14 gallons of beer today. Among those beers in one intended to be an imperial IPA that ended up just a bit too sweet. It's not an IPA, but it is damned good. The rest was pale ale, same wort, different yeast in two fermenters. Both pale ales will be very good. All of it needs a few days to carbonate.

I probably should have re-pitched the IPA with white labs super high gravity yeast to get some of the sweetness out, but that sounded like a lot of work. I'm fine with it as is.

I'm going to have to make another beer soon. I'm on a quest to get as much variety out of my brew days as possible. There will be two fermenters in every day of brewing. I'm going to do more than mere yeast experiments--there will, for example, be excercises in steeped grain. Stay tuned. I may try to make a stout and a pale ale in one day next week.

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