Friday, March 23, 2007

Beer foam

So the instructions for the beer said to give it a week in the primary fermenter, and then move it after a week into the secondary bottle. That's a just-over-five gallon jug that I put an airlock on, after which the bubbles are supposed to SLOWLY escape through a small amount of germicide-treated water. Apparently I had some slow-awakening yeast at work. The stuff was bubbling out like a head, right through the airlock....after a couple of days it's finally slowed down so that I don't need to keep wiping the bottle off. I know this beer will need extra time, but I haven't had a situation like this. We shall see.

Oh, and Erika says the beer smells like pepperoni pizza. She's sorta right, too....the yeast I'm sure provides the dough smell, but the pepperoni *is* a bit odd.

Anyways, Kansas has kept winning for me....but I'm worried, there's another sheet with Kansas winning it all, and the guy's way ahead of me. March is a time for miracles, though.

1 comment:

Mega said...

I only have 2 of 4 teams left.