Let's start this off with some applause: I remembered to take both the original and final gravity readings! Huzzah!
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| Chris' new 'best brewers face' |
So we get a final estimated ABV of ~10.68%, which seemed high to me considering Charlie's original estimated ABV of ~5%. But when one recalls all of the
changes to the recipe provided by Charlie and my addition of dry hopping the secondary, it seems more probable that such a large increase could occur. Final judgment will be reserved until the tasting of this batch.
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| 44 bottles ~ 4.125 gallons |
Chris returned to help out with the bottling process - I'd like to think that was because he wanted to see the whole process through, but it might have been out of a feeling of obligation or guilt (since he didn't help with the transfer to secondary). In either case, he was a great help and worked the bottle-capper like a pro. We wrapped up the entire bottling process (sterilization, gravity reading, bottling, and capping) in a little under 2 hours and were able to drink a few
Single Peak Brown Ales along the way. The total yield was 44 bottles, which is quite good considering the amount of the beer absorbed by the dry hopping process.
I'd like to thank
Dave Collins for supplying 120 bottles for this and future brews - he's a helluva guy.
To wrap up this entry, I'd like to encourage you to support your local microbreweries - the people who work there are always pretty damned awesome.
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