“Brown German Ale,” Or “Why Wasn’t My ESB This Hoppy?”
Brewing has been suffering along with blogging under the onslaught of SpotComponents and my massive three-hour load in school. Yet I have eked out a bit of it, and it has owned me. This latest product is hoppy.
The initial gravity reading, all foamy and everything:
The final gravity reading. You know you want some:
I took the initial gravity as 1.045, and the final as 1.007. That tells me 4% alcohol by volume, which I trust, as Douglas Adams said, about as far as I can comfortably spit out a rat. Will I never get good gravity data? Perhaps not. But I will get good beer.
Next up is lagers. Adeodatus ordered the goods for 30 gallons of lager between the two of us, so expect to hear about that soon.
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- Posted by Tim on Monday, January 31, 2005 at 11:06:31 pm PST
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4 Responses to ““Brown German Ale,” Or “Why Wasn’t My ESB This Hoppy?””
Let the records show that these images capture for posterity one of the best beers ever put into a bottle. I don’t know what special incantation you uttered or what stars smiled upon you, but this here beer is somethin’ else.
Comment Permalink | Posted on February 11th, 2005 at 11:26 pm |It is, in fact, pretty good. It is not in the least bit embarassed about being beer, or about being a physical substance. This is not beer for Gnostics.
Comment Permalink | Posted on March 5th, 2005 at 4:14 pm |prediction…dead brain cells, overload for the liver, .002 percent chance for reproduction is less, possible kidney damage, future relationships destroyed by possible addiction, possible accidental death by those who thought they weren’t drunk at the time… by hey, who cares…right?
Comment Permalink | Posted on March 13th, 2005 at 6:54 pm |Uh, “puritan,” you might ask William Bradford what he thought on the matter (if you’ll pardon me the minor historical imprecision of calling him a Puritan). Or, at the risk of begging the question, you could always ask Jesus about hand-crafted fermented beverages. Or for that matter, ask just about any Christian on earth prior to the 1860s. Do you really want to have this argument? Because, I mean, we can if you’d like.
Comment Permalink | Posted on March 13th, 2005 at 8:28 pm |