Holiday Brew
Today we started working on Charles Papazian’s “Holiday Brew” (from the “The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing”). Making the beer was only slightly more difficult than making the wine - essentially just make a sweet tea from hops and what not (also has cinnamon and ginger). Then filter the junk out into a 5 gallon bucket.
I still don’t have a good sense for what each ingredient does and how it would taste different if I changed things, but I think that will come with time. Probably more important is that I just get the hang of the process.
PA is at 6.5%
26 Nov 2007 Update: Checked PA: .5%. Still bubbling slowly.
27 Nov 2007 Update: Racked into a 5 gallon carboy.
12 Dec 2007 Update: Bottled. Tastes pretty good when warm & flat… pretty excited to see the carbonated & chilled version.