So I haven't really been playing my beer music since I started taking gravity readings. All the movement just kinda makes it inconvenient to keep putting the speakers back and such.
Regardless, today, Presidents day 2011, was bottling day.
I determined it was bottling day by confirming that fermentation was done by taking gravity readings on 3 consecutive days. If it is the same, this means it is done. If there is a change, then fermentation may have went dormant for a day or two then restarted. If bottling is done before fermentation is complete, then you end up with a bottle bomb -- a bottle filled with so much air and pressure that it can explode into many pieces, sending glass shrapnel, upon opening.
During one of the gravity readings I snapped a picture of a sample on my phone, but presentation gets an F-, so the picture is not getting put up.
I have also determined, using gravity readings from before fermentation and after, that the beer is around 5% abv.
It definitely has a distinct rye smell, very "spicy". Perhaps I shall name it "Heart of the Sun-Ryes" after the Yes! song of the similar name.
I produced 31(.5) bottles, before I started picking up sediment and other unsavory things.
Next up will likely be an idea for a doppelbock I have. Man, I can't wait till spring is actually really here, so I can try out making a saison.
-- Knuttel
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