I’ve bottled my ESB, Extra Special Bitters, and got (lessee….) 54 12 ounce bottles and almost one more. ABV is 6.0% and it tasted pretty good. I even shared the leavings from the secondary fermenter with Dog Angel… she so loves beer.
This, and the last two beers that I’ve brewed were made using Fermentis 04 yeast, an English Ale yeast. I’ve been retaining the slurry from the Primary in an Erlenmeyer flask in the fridge with a stopper of an open-celled foam (to allow breathing). My next beer will be an Oktöberfest using a vial of Oktöberfest yeast, and then while that is in the primary, maybe another English Ale. After that, I dunno: Keep the English Ale yeast, or the Oktöberfest yeast? Decisions, decisions. (Maybe see if a fellow brewer wants to nurture the Oktöberfest yeast….)
At present I have four cases of Bitters in process and three sixpacks of Brown Ale in the fridge to last til the Oktöberfest is ready to swill. That hopefully will be enough to last seeing as I usually give about half of the stuff to friends and co-worker. We shall see…
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