TASTING DAY HAS COME!!!
Firstly, I would like to congratulate ourselves on successfully brewing our first beer!!
So, after two weeks in secondary fermentation, the yeast had settled out of our American Pale Ale quite nicely.
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| Settled Yeasties. |
Since this was our first home brew experience, we wanted to bottle a bit of the beer, just to say we did. Because we had racked the beer into secondary fermentation, we were pretty successful with racking into the bottles. The bottling wand is pretty damn genius. It fills the bottles perfectly. At present, the bottles are in a box, hiding from the light, making carbonation bubblies.
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| Capping the bottles. |
The racking process from the carboy to the keg went nice and smoothly.
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| Racking into the Keg. |
Per the directions from the guy at Wilmington home brew, we added CO2 up to 30 pounds of pressure. This carbonates the beer, eliminating the need for priming sugar and aging (for the purposes of carbonation). The keg just needed to sit for about 24 hours before it was carbonated. Then we dropped the pressure back down to like 7 pounds and drank it up! The first pour came out perfect!
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| American Pale Ale - Brewed March 31 - Tasted April 15 |
The beer definitely has a hoppy taste and is VASTLY better than the Coors Light we drink on a regular basis. It does have a bit of a sour undertone, though. We think that might be because some of the malt extract burned to the bottom of the pot during the boil. Overall, though, it is delicious and a total success!
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| Happy Drinking! |
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