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It’s done! (Almost…)

November 29, 2004

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Thanks to everyone in for their suggestions to bottle tonight. So, I did. It’s done… My first batch of beer has been removed from the secondary fermenter, mixed with the priming sugar solution, and bottled. Yay! It seems rather clear, still tastes like a youngish and slightly sweet (most likely from the priming sugar) Newcastle. This is good, as it’s a brown ale.

With an OG of 1.043 and a FG of 1.012, my calculations put it at right about 4.15% ABV.

It’s now sitting back in the bathtub, (hopefully) carbonating, and waiting for me to sample it in one week.

If anyone would like to poke through the pictures I took at various times throughout the process, they can all be found here. I’ve also got the notes I kept throughout the process here. I think that next time I’ll ensure that I have enough ice on hand, averting a run to the party store in order to cool the wort (it was still cooled to 70°F within 35 minutes), and use a 6.5 gallon carboy for my primary fermenter.

Oh, and next time I’ll be brewing the California Style Imperial Pale Ale kit mentioned at the top of this page.

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9 Responses

  1. valis2 November 29, 2004

    Wow! That was quick. Very cool. 51 bottles of beer? You are going to get toasted quick, sir.

    1. c0nsumer November 29, 2004

      45, actually, but yeah. I’m going to need help drinking those. hehe.

      1. valis2 November 29, 2004

        Oops, thought there were 8 columns there…obviously time to go to bed now. Enjoy your beer of happiness.

      2. kitschicat November 30, 2004

        *volunteers*

        1. c0nsumer November 30, 2004

          Otay. :) As long as I can get a hold of you to get you the beer. ;)

  2. b3auty_qu33n November 29, 2004

    Awesome! :-)

    How long before you can drink it? I heard that beer you buy at the store goes from being pumped into the bottle to the store in less than 48 hours. I could be wrong, though.

    1. c0nsumer November 30, 2004

      Eh, it depends on just how long it takes to get right. The beer still needs to carbonate in the bottle, by fermenting a little bit more… There are actually lots of ways to prepare beer, and a lot of commercial ones are probably made completely ready in batch, then just bottled and shipped out.

      There are actually lots of commercially made beers that aren’t crap and are conditioned in the bottle, but they just won’t be the really big names…

  3. bradd November 30, 2004

    Save one or 12 for me.

    1. c0nsumer November 30, 2004

      Hehe… Probably two weeks out and they’ll be good. Yay!

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