So, I passed off a bottle of beer batch two to a friend at a local cafe – he said it was the best beer he’s ever tasted. Me thinks he needs to get out more often, perhaps try a place that doesn’t serve big-named American beers. Batch three is ready but untested – need a good reason to drink besides “Wednesday.”
wiess experiment
13 Jun 2008 at 18:13 (beer)
Tags: beer
So, I tried another brew – Weizenbier with my mini-beer kit. Unfortunately, my assistant was not here! Watching the birth of his child or some unlikely excuse. Thus, I didn’t get the batch correctly made the first time. About an hour later, I remembered that I forgot to mix in some boosters. since it was so close to sealing up the keg, I thought I’d try adding boster late. So, I uncorked the keg, added booster, and stirred. We’ll see if it turns out or if I spoiled it.
As for batch two, the “Canadian Draft,” it was a success. A few bottles were less carbonated than the others and there was an unexpectedly nice sweetness to one. Also, when looking at the bottles in the fridge, it looked as if the carbonation bubbles only came half-way up the bottle. Really funky looking, but there was no separation in the liquid. Nevertheless, still very good.
a first attempt at brewing
23 May 2008 at 20:15 (beer)
I recently acquired a system of brewing beer, something called Mr Beer. It’s a cheap kit and what the heck, I don’t have the enough room for a full-size adult kit. So, I’ll use my plastic children’s toy to make a brew.
The first recipe is Vienna Lager. Baseball and hockey on the over-the-air HDTV, a few purchased beers in the fridge, and pizza from across the street: perfect beginnings for or Aaron and I to brew. After we did some arm curls with existing beer, we starting boiling the “booster” following a can of flavouring mix. Told you it was for children, too easy. Mix in the plastic key, add yeast, seal, and let set for two weeks. Then, with fourteen 20oz bottles, transfer the beer, add sugar, seal, and wait another two weeks for carbonation to set in.
So, the first batch results: “quite drinkable” according to Aaron. Our sights were set low and they were excessively exceeded. Amazing. And cheap, like $15 for the keg + $5 for the batch of the beer works out to $1.43 a beer or 35¢ if you don’t account for the initial keg purchase.
Next up, Canadian Draft, whatever that entails. Only one more week until we can open the bottles, maybe during the Redwings.
