What a great day! Started out with biscuits and gravy, watching some football, and bottling my oatmeal stout! Plus my wife is hot and a total babe and I’m madly in love with her, so having her always puts me in a good mood!
So, bottling beer is a lot of sanitizing and making sure everything is clean before you bottle. So, gallons of sanitizing solution later I have things clean and ready to bottle.
One important thing is to calculate your alcohol by volume. Final gravity was 1.018. Take your initial gravity (1.056), subtract your final gravity (1.018) to find the total sugars eaten by the yeast (0.038). Multiply that by 105 (which gives you 3.99), then multiply that amount by 1.25 and that gives you 4.99%, which is your alcohol by volume. Real close to 5%. Last time I made was exactly 13 years ago and it was 4.5% alcohol by volume. SHEESH! 2009 on October 30th was when I bottled this one the last time I made it!!! Crazy!
My wife hand wrote the labels, as it’s been years since I’ve had a working inkjet printer. I’m so looking forward to this beer!
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