Brew9 Tasting

Force carbed ~10 oz

ABV: ~9%

IBUs (calculated): 30

Aroma: Cloves, sweet cherry, slight hint of banana

Hops: None, but sweetness is balanced well by bitterness
Yeast: slight bready-ness
Texture: medium, close to brown ale maltiness
Finish: sweet
Duration: short (seconds)

Overall:9

After all this beer has been through, I was pleasantly surprised. A very tasty belgian dark strong ale.

Brew9: Belgian bottling

http://www.byo.com/stories/techniques/article/indices/14-bottling/1212-on-the-yeast-guide-to-bottle-conditioning
http://www.byo.com/stories/beer-styles/article/indices/11-beer-styles/1941-corking-belgians

Equipment: Idophor, 19L kettle, stirring spoon, racking cane, tubing, bottle filler, hydrometer, corn sugar, boil pot, corks, starsan

1. Measure weight of 1/4 cup DME (~1.4 oz)
2. Boil 1/4 cup DME in 3 cups water
3. Cool solution in ice bath
4. Pitch yeast
5. Wait 24 hours
6. Sterilize bottles in oven
7. Sanitize 19L kettle, stirring spoon, racking cane, tubing, bottle filler, hydrometer
8. Measure corn sugar according to 9 grams per liter in 2X cups water (3 G beer = ~100 g corn sugar)
9. Boil and cool
10. Make starsan solution for corks
11. Rack beer to kettle
12. Measure amount of beer
1. 2.75 in
13. Measure FG
1. 1.011
14. Add corn sugar and yeast to kettle. Stir with spoon.
15. Bottle beer

Shopping

20 lb 2-row
4 oz Cascade or similar
Nottingham or Coopers Dry yeast
Coors light bottle
Styrofoam coolers

Bourbon
Vodka
Hop rhizome
Grain mill (http://www.barleycrusher.com/barleycrusher.php)