The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Friday, September 23, 2011
Probably ready to rack
Once your beer is no longer spewing foam out of the top of your fermenter, its time to rack it to your secondary fermenter. This keeps your beer away from prolonged contact with the resins and extra yeast that can give it an off-flavor. I made my first batch a long time ago and only had a single fermenter. I thought that the beer was incredibly bitter, but that was before I was more versed in different beer styles and probably had some unrealistic expectations of what an amber was supposed to taste like. I remember in my mind thinking at that time "this doesn't taste like Killians Red!". Hah! I also remember about a year later trying a $8 beer at Sportstime Pizza and thinking "oh hell! THIS TASTES JUST LIKE THE FIRST BATCH OF BEER I EVER MADE!". I will come home and rack the beer tonight. I have this thing today i've volunteered to do for Logans class. Its called Junior Achievement 'Biztown'. I have to be there an hour before the kids for training...
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