My Adventures in Home Brewing
Posted in Brewing on Mar 15th, 2009
Well, here we are at day 14 and it’s starting to look a lot better. The beer is clearing up rather nicely and I believe active fermentation is about done. I haven’t seen any bubbles in the Air-Lock in a few days. The beer is going to stay in the secondary for at least another [...]
Posted in Brewing on Mar 10th, 2009
Here we sit like birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness. Here we sit like birds in the wilderness waiting on my beer to clear… T-minus two weeks till bottling, oh the agony. If it he wait is tough now, it will be worse in the 3 – 4 week [...]
Posted in Brewing on Mar 7th, 2009
So, today I decided to rack my wort (I guess it’s still called that…) and transfer it to the secondary fermenter. For the secondary fermenter, I’m using a 5 gallon glass carboy. This step is not ‘needed’ but can improve the clarity and quality of the final product. Since this is my first batch, I [...]
Posted in Brewing on Mar 4th, 2009
Well, we’ve hit day four in the fermenter and all still looks good. There’s still some action going on in the bucket. This means, that the yeast is still active and ‘eating’ away at the sugars producing CO2, and hopefully a little alcohol. Here are some details about the progress: The bubbles are coming up, [...]