Bottle / Transfer day

Today, we bottled the BloodWeizen. 48 bottles later.... we tasted, and damn, its delicious. This beer has been such a bitch! Aside from the beermergency where it exploded all over because of its hyper-active fermentation.... We decided to bottle this beer with molasses instead of sugar. The molasses overflowed ALL OVER THE STOVE!!!!! In seriously, less than 1.7 seconds. Like, we turned around, and then all of a sudden heard this horrible loud SIZZLE! SO IRRITATING!!! Then, as we're transferring from the carboy into the bottling bucket... the seal on the bottling bucket busted and beer was spilling on the floor!!!! Doh!!! Luckily, we caught it quickly, so very little was lost. But yeah, this beer has been a bitch.
The brix showed as being about 6.9%, but we think thats because of the molasses. We think the last brix we took (6.2%) is more accurate, so that's what we're going with.

The ESB has been transferred to the secondary fermentation. Brix is 5.7%, which gives us an ABV of 4.8%. We'll bottle this in two weeks and we'll let you know how it tastes initially at that time, and of course after its been in the bottles for a couple weeks :)




Just a heads up/reminder, Beer As Art is Sunday October 24th from 5-8pm. If you want to come just give your name to either myself (erin) or patrick and we'll put you on "the list." This is not a free entry list (entry is $5) but you can't get in without your name being on the list. Legality things and all that noise. We will post about this again, here, on facebook, and on twitter, so you will have plenty of opportunities to get on the elusive list :)

till next time, have a hoppy day ;)