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Mar 4, 2006

Category: Dairy

Posted by: Daniel

The second day of the longweekend is comming to an end. It feels like sunday to me, since Jessica has been home yesterday and today. We spent the day cleaning up around the house, both inside and outside. That took a good ammount of time. Part of the cleaning up process was to bottle the beer. It was an interesting experience. I spent maybe 40 minutes cleaning bottles. Adter that Jessica and I went out into the sunroom, to the beer, and started. The steps are simple, first you sterilize the bottles, using a mixture of water and chemicals (non poisonous of course!). Then you pour the beer into the bottle, put the priming sugar in. The priming sugar is what makes it fizzy, or carbonated. Put the cap on, but do not tighten it, let it sit for a few minutes (while you do the next bottle, if you are efficent :). Then you tighten the cap, and leave it for 20 minutes or so. When you return you gently turn it around to make sure the priming sugar is mixed in properly, and now the boring part comes. You leave it alone for approx 6 weeks (!) to mature. We are of course not going to wait that long, since we got su much beer. 25 liters, or 43 bottles (remember you don't get 25 liters actually, some goes to sedimentation, and some for various messurements). We are going to test the first bottle in a week. I'll keep you posted. The beer ended up with approx 5% alcohol, so next time we will probably put in less sugar, to make it alittle bit less alcoholic. Neither me nor Jessica drink beer for the alcohol, so there is no point in having too much of it. Well, we are not even sure there will be a next time, I keep you posted on that as well. The evening was spent being lazy, Jessica made a bird out of denim, I played a bit of Ty 3 (ps2 game).