Thought I'd quickly write about the first batch of beer I brewed, back in September '15, because we had originally thought it was a little flat due to a mistake in the bottling process. Well I'd like to say that the beer is very drinkable! I think our unconventional bottling process meant the beer needed a little extra time to mature.
I should explain, due to me not being able to get up to Edinburgh around when the first batch of beer had finished secondary fermentation and my friend up there not having much time, he syphoned all the beer into a keg, with the bottling sugar and left it there, sealed, until we had time to bottle it. If we had just left it in the keg from then on, this would have been fine, but this would have only been useable if we were going to take the keg to a party or something as it would have gone off quite quickly. So, a few weeks after this, when we had time, I came up to Edinburgh and we bottled the beer. This seemed to have the effect that even after a month of further maturation the beer was a little flat and we thought.
This latest batch we've done has been more strictly processed and in a month we hope these bottles should be ready to go. For now though I am enjoying drinking my way through our first batch.
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