Tomorrow we are going to bottle up the RIS. It has been conditioning for over 2 weeks now so it should be ready to go into bottles. I am not sure what the final gravity will be. Last I checked it was inching near the 12% ABV mark. It might be a little higher then that but probably not too much.
After we bottle the RIS and clean the carboy, we are going to brew up an American Brown Ale. Very simple beer, perfect for summer get togethers.
The brew day with Peter went awesome. No major issues at all. As you can see we have quite a bit of pizza and drinks to go around!
This was the first beer Femme Fatale did using a starter. We pitched 1100 ML of yeast into 6 gallons of wort. Boy did it take off! It took off too much in fact.
So after cleaning up the mess and putting a blow tube off, the beer continued to do what it was doing best, turning sweet sugars into even sweeter booze. The beer is already at 10% ABV with no off flavors. I can’t wait for this one to age.
After some discussion, we decided to go ahead and enter the Angry Kitty Ale into the Sam Adam’s Longshot Competition. The Angry Kitty Ale has some flaws but even with the flaws, the feedback would be nice to get. So off it went.