On the 15th I bottled up my cherry stout. Before bottling, I had to use a strainer to remove floating cherry remains. After transferring it to my bottling bucket, I had close to a gallon of sediment left in my bottling bucket. Even had some cherry gunk stuck in my auto siphon.
Final gravity turned out to be 1.022, giving an alcohol by volume of 6.825%. I personally thought it would be higher, and it might actually be higher. There is sure to be a lot of sediment still left in the bottles that will settle out.
A sample taste had a lot of tartness from the cherries mixed with the bitter from the hops. The body was nice. Once it carbonates and I get a few chilled it should be a really nice beer.
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