Interesting Recipe

Recipe for Dogfish Head's Midas Touch high cap beer.

http://www.byo.com/recipe/1011.html

Two meads recipes

Basic/Quick Mead

and

"Viking" Mead

Here is a recipe I found for Boddingtons Bitter.

It looks real close to what I'm currently making (though I used a kit, some I'm not sure what the malts are).

Worth trying.

This came from site I found with all kinds of recipes, both AG and Extract.
The Cat's Meow

Vanilla Ale

The wife loves just about anything vanilla.

Last night I found this recipe (and/or kit) for a Vanilla Velvet Amber Cream Ale.

Gonna have to give that a try.

Graduation

From primary to secondary...fermenters that is.

After 11 days in the primary, and 2 stable readings of 1.012, I racked the brew off into my brand new Better Bottle this evening.

So, 11 days in Primary, means about 21-22 days in the Secondary.

That should have me bottling on Thanksgiving.

One thing's for sure. It definitely tasted a lot better today. Even the wife thought it tasted like what we'd expect (accounting for the fact it's young and flat).

Now, to just keep the temperature stable for 3 weeks.

Brrrrrrr

We've had some unseasonably cold weather past few days.

I put a ceramic space heater in the building where the beer is living.
But the liquid temps still got down to 57 last night.
With the room temperature at 65 almost all day, the liquids were still 57.

So, it's now enjoy nice warm (by its standards) bath in the kitchen sink and will most likely spend the night in the house.

Next gravity reading: tomorrow.

First test

Today, at almost 8 days from pitching, I checked the SG.

1.012 @ 61F

I'll check again in 3 days or so.
Looking for 2 equal readings, then will rack to a secondary.

I thought it tasted OK.
It was great when it first hits your tongue. But as it leeched out it became bitter, and after swallowing and evaporating, it was real bitter.
This, I assume, is the green beer affect.

The wife hated it, but said it was still better than Budweiser!