Bottling Day

Bottling the bock for KMO. New brix: 9.2. This gives us an ABV of 6.7%. Yowza! A bit stronger than we thought it would be but eh, no one's complaining! And DAMN this beer tastes good! It's still flat (obv) but the initial taste test was great! We are very happy with the way this beer is turning out :)

exploding dunkel

brix: 6.5. Original brix was 12.4. This gives us an ABV of 5.2%.
We just decided to dry hopp this bitch.
Too late to go to the store so we're using what we have.
1oz Mt Hood Hopps. Cross your fingers for us!

note:

blue pillow case = new dunkel for KMO.

Updates

Transferring the new dunkel to secondary today. New brix: 7.1. This gives us a current ABV of about 4.4%. We're gonna let this sit in the secondary for a bit longer than we normally do. Normal for us is right about two weeks, so we'll check on this at 3 and decide if we want to bottle yet or not.
We 're gonna take a reading and do a taste test on the exploding dunkel. Not repitching. At least not yet. This beer is turning into an experiment.

mer mer mer :/

The dunkel exploded. We're redoing it tonight. Same exact recipe as previously. Just have to watch the fermentation a bit closer :P We decided to turn the exploder into a science project. We'll be adding campden caplets which should kill everything alive. Then we'll repitch next week. Who knows, maybe it can be saved, maybe not. This is all a learning process, right? mer :P

We are also bottling the Bloodweizen tonight. Thats around 100 bottles folks! crazy-ness-ness. (for the record, still has the same brix, same ABV of 5.4%). In hindsight, we should have bought a 15 gallon bottling bucket, the 10 gallon is too small :( again, mer mer mer :P

Transfer on the bock - new brix 10.6. This puts the ABV at 5.58%. Aiming for around 6. This might have a little more fermenting to go.

In other news, the ESB is mega delish. Totally amazing. Super crazy impressed with it. I'd go as far as to say its better than Redhook. Ya. I said it. What? Come try it!!


note to self: lion king over bock.




brix for new Dunkel: 12.
this puts the original gravity at 1.049. We'll be sure to let you know what happens to this guy :P