01.09.06
Beer! The first taste
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.
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.
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?
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?!
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?
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. ;-)