01.09.06

Beer! The first taste

Posted in Beer at 11:30 pm by qkslvrwolf

Right, so tonight, I broke into my first bottle of homebrew. This was the 3 liter pop bottle that I only got half full, so even if it totally sucked I wasn’t going to lose hope about the rest.

My initial impression was that it was too sweet and not nearly carbonated enough. However, as I dumped a whole bunch of extra priming sugar into it and it had almost 5 inches or more of headspace to fill, neither of these revelations is surprising. I’m very curious about the actual tap-a-draft kegs I have downstairs.

Now, what is interesting is that the more of this I drink the more I like it. It is growing on me..although I would like it to be carbonated. I think I’ll give the rest of the batch another week to carbonate before I break it out. Still, I think I’m going to brand this batch a success. Ohhh, yeah.

5 Comments

  1. alcarwen said,

    January 9, 2006 at 11:34 pm

    how many people think he could have opened that while his girlfriend was there?! well at least one, and that’s me.

    damn you.

  2. qkslvrwolf said,

    January 10, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    Yeah…I know. I meant to open it while you were there. You distracted me though. With your feminine charms and your PSP. So its YOUR fault. ;-)

    I’ll save at least one bottle tell you come back, mmk?

  3. Parental unit said,

    January 11, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    “…the more of this I drink the more I like it…” HMMMM. Isn’t that why they say that only the first bottle of wine needs to be expensive?!

  4. Parental unit said,

    January 11, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    “…the more of this I drink, the more I like it.” HMMM. Makes a parent proud.

    And isn’t that why they say that only the first bottle of wine needs to be expensive?

  5. qkslvrwolf said,

    January 11, 2006 at 7:26 pm

    No no no…I only had a half pint that first night, so although i do think the beer came out fairly strong, this was not a case of good beer/bad beer.

    I don’t do that. Life is too short for bad beer. :-)

    You’re one to talk anyway, mrs. gigglefits. ;-)