Jens-Kristian
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Sorry for reviving this one - and for not updating on the outcome. Still busy.
Anyway, even after this post, it took me nearly two months to get around to bottling, which was done on 19May. I'd actually decided to add yeast for everything other than a few bottles for the sake of experimentation but when I got around to it, I couldn't get S.E.'s comment out of my mind, that I might be a bit of a by the book nazi lol.
I bottled the whole lot, primed with raw sugar, without adding more yeast. Experiment, don't you know. One week out from bottling, I tested and there was pretty good carbonation and after two weeks even better. At three weeks it was fully carbonated and all fine.
I've been drinking it and it's pretty excellent, although the dryhopping I did of it back when I first put it in secondary is a little subdued. I am normally quite sensitive to things that taste oxidised and I'm not getting any of that in here.
I really need to leave things for a year in secondary more often. Perhaps an argument to have several brew fridges.
So far then, my 'maximum time in secondary' for a beer that I actually end up carbonating is a bit more than the usually proscribed period of 2-3 weeks. 66 weeks on this one.
Then there's the 4 bottles of my homebrew that I found while home in Denmark visiting my parents a few weeks ago. These were brewed in June 2006. Perhaps a separate post about these ones. lol
Anyway, even after this post, it took me nearly two months to get around to bottling, which was done on 19May. I'd actually decided to add yeast for everything other than a few bottles for the sake of experimentation but when I got around to it, I couldn't get S.E.'s comment out of my mind, that I might be a bit of a by the book nazi lol.
I bottled the whole lot, primed with raw sugar, without adding more yeast. Experiment, don't you know. One week out from bottling, I tested and there was pretty good carbonation and after two weeks even better. At three weeks it was fully carbonated and all fine.
I've been drinking it and it's pretty excellent, although the dryhopping I did of it back when I first put it in secondary is a little subdued. I am normally quite sensitive to things that taste oxidised and I'm not getting any of that in here.
I really need to leave things for a year in secondary more often. Perhaps an argument to have several brew fridges.
So far then, my 'maximum time in secondary' for a beer that I actually end up carbonating is a bit more than the usually proscribed period of 2-3 weeks. 66 weeks on this one.
Then there's the 4 bottles of my homebrew that I found while home in Denmark visiting my parents a few weeks ago. These were brewed in June 2006. Perhaps a separate post about these ones. lol
