Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Bottling Sucks!!!

So I brewed on Sunday, and bottled...attempted to bottle...my Cascade experiment.  Due to a faulty siphoning apparatus, we had some terrible trouble getting the beer into the bottles, and lost a full beer.  She hung in there with me though, and we got 5 cloudy, probably contaminated 100% Cascade-hopped beers.

The Centennial experiment is in the fermenter and bubbling away.  Here's what it looked like:
  • 20 c Pocono Springs bottled water brought to rolling boil.
  • 1 lb Muntons Extra Light DME (This will remain constant throughout the rest of the hops testing) stirred into pot.
  • Wort brought back to boil, and .20 oz ( 1.8 AAU) Centennial hop pellets added.  60 minute timer started.
  • At 45 minute mark (15 min left in boil) .20 oz (1.8 AAU) Centennial hop pellets added to boil.
  • At 55 minute mark (5 min left in boil) .20 oz (1.8 AAU) Centennial hop pellets added to boil
  • At 60 minute mark, brew pot is removed, covered, and placed in freezer to cool.
  • When wort reads 70 degrees F, wort transferred to fermenter, and 11.5 g Fermentis brand Safale us-05 (This will remain constant throughout the rest of the hops testing) also added to fermenter.
  • Fermenter closed and shaken for 1 min.
I will chill the Cascade Experiment one week from Sunday and give it a try while bottling the Centennial Experiment and brewing the Columbus Experiment...CAN'T F'N WAIT!!!! (I seem to be saying that a lot)

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