{"id":6796,"date":"2004-11-29T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/29\/its-done-almost\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:51","slug":"its-done-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/29\/its-done-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s done! (Almost&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Crossposted to <lj user=homebrewing> and <lj user=c0nsumer>&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/brewing_beer\/DCP_2403.sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/brewing_beer\/DCP_2403.sized.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>Click for more&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone in <lj user=homebrewing> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/homebrewing\/139711.html\">their suggestions<\/a> to bottle tonight. So, I did. It&#8217;s done&#8230; 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&#8217;s a brown ale.<\/p>\n<p>With an OG of 1.043 and a FG of 1.012, my calculations put it at right about 4.15% ABV.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now sitting back in the bathtub, (hopefully) carbonating, and waiting for me to sample it in one week.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone would like to poke through the pictures I took at various times throughout the process, they can all be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/brewing_beer\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also got the notes I kept throughout the process <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/files\/beer1_notes.txt\">here<\/a>. I think that next time I&#8217;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\u00b0F within 35 minutes), and use a 6.5 gallon carboy for my primary fermenter.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and next time I&#8217;ll be brewing the California Style Imperial Pale Ale kit mentioned at the top of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeners.com\/brewbest.html\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Crossposted to and &#8230;] Click for more&#8230; Thanks to everyone in for their suggestions to bottle tonight. So, I did. It&#8217;s done&#8230; 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\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14833,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/14833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}