Nobody Listens » bottling http://www.nobodylistens.net Hello? Is anybody out there? Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Batch #1: Pale Ale Bottled http://www.nobodylistens.net/2008/04/21/batch-1-pale-ale-bottled/ http://www.nobodylistens.net/2008/04/21/batch-1-pale-ale-bottled/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:40:06 +0000 Scott http://www.nobodylistens.net/?p=18 Finally got around to bottling my first batch of Pale Ale. 

I soaked my bottles in OxyClean to remove them and clean them Friday night thinking I would get to bottle on Saturday night.  One thing led to another and I wasn’t able to get to it until Monday.

I can see why people Keg.  Not only is the whole process a pain, but storing all those bottles sure does take up a lot of room especially considering I’ll need to bottle batch number 2 in a few weeks.

I tasted the brew and it tasted pretty bitter.  I’m hoping the carbination will cut that a bit.

My Final gravity was 1.014 so it hadn’t changed since I racked to secondary (which is expected).  My Original Gravity was 1.056 so that puts the ABV at 5.46%.  Not bad.  My target Final ABV was 6.02%.

Now, more waiting. 

  • Total time in Primary: 12 days
  • Total time in secondary: 16 days
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