Monday, January 22, 2007

Christmas Ale.....aging

Well, the Christmas Ale is now peacefully aging in bottles. I moved it over the weekend from the secondary into bottles and now just have to wait for 11 months to drink it. Out of everything, that is going to be the hardest to take. It's so hard to let the beer age when you know it's just gonna be so good once you do get to drinking it!

Pictures! Top-left is a view of the wort moving from the secondary into the bottling bucket ...thought it was a neat angle. On the right is another picture of the wort going into the bottling bucket. The shutter speed is just slow enough to see the wort swirling, but the remainder of the pic is in focus...cool! Bottom-left is of the bottles after they were filled and capped. Yeah, that's the stuff I can't touch for almost a year. This is the first time I've bottled with using clear glass. Gonna have to keep that stuff in the dark! Sure don't want skunked Christmas Ale come December next year. Better be damn good for as long as I have to wait to drink it!

Landon - Ben ... It's done! What should we brew next?

2 comments:

Landon Whitsitt said...

Mmmmmm....beer. Are you sure we can't drink some this summer? You sure?


Nice shot of the wort swirling.

Josh said...

Well, maybe we can consume a little...