There is still krauzen on the top of the beer, I’ve been dropping the temp 1° per day to 52°F for the primary. Smells like Lager fermenting when I open the freezer door. This batch might just be ready for Oktöberfest this year. If I go to Bramwell this year, I’ll enter it into the homebrew contest and see how it does.
The second batch of this style has been met with rave reviews from my peeps with whom I’ve shared it. One guy at work asked if he could buy a sixpack for his camping outing this weekend, but I told him that was illegal. I could give it to him, however. And so I did. He had previously given me his old steel toed work shoes when he got a new pair and I gave him a tasteful selection of Oktöberfest and ESB and he & his wife loved them both. I probably give away about half of the beer that I brew; it is a labour of love.
After this batch gets thru, I may start another ESB, and also will put together a batch of Mead. Might make it with an addition of strawberries of something tasty like that. Maybe get some Damson Plumbs from my barber who doesn’t do anything with them and make a plumb mead. That would be interesting. Use a sweet champagne yeast rather than the dry that I used last time. And hope that I live another 5 years to enjoy it. For the sake of the mead….. We’ll see…
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