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bottle day its bitter and edgy but has a nice taste mix with earthy english styles. See what happens after conditioning. After 1 week the bitters has smoothed out perhaps too much. Taste is on track, concerned about the Carbonation which is almost non evident although there was gas in the bottle when opened. Well that went quick!! Everyone loved it and the carbonation came out after another week. Tastes like a newcastle of bass ale. No bitter aftertaste but you can taste the bitter in the beer while drinking. I will be making this again as a all grain beer.

Notes

27 Oct 14: Started with 1 pd of weyermann pilsner base malt 2.5-3.5 ebc. Used my Victoria grain mill and think I did okay although I ended up with some powder. Have to learn how to adjust this better. Steeped the grains for 30 mins at 155. Boiled for 60 minutes starting the timer after the boil off and added the hops at that point. Added 1 oz at 10 minutes left to the boil. Chilled the wort to 75 degrees and added yeast starter from the day before. 28 Oct 14. Real good Fermentation bubbles every second. Temp is at 71 room temp and drops to about 68 at night. 30 Oct 14 fermentation is down to about bubbles every 40 seconds and temp is at around 70 degrees. 1 Nov 14 Fermentation down to 1 a minute temp is at 68 degrees. Gonna Xfre soon. Transferred to secondary, Wort is looking thick and healthy with a prospect of a good secondary hopefully. Taste is bitter with a little hint of clove and alchohol, smell is hoppy. Definately needs to settle and bottle conditioning may take longer to get this beer where I envision it to be. Gravity was about 1.016 2 Nov 14 Fermentation still evident but slow. Temp average is 66-70 degrees over a 24 hour period. Trub evident on the bottom. 7 Nov 14: Fermentation has stopped temp at 68 degrees. 16 Nov 14: Time to bottle Temp at 68 degrees. finished with a 1014 and a 5.3% abv. A little high for the 8B class but oh well. Taste are earthy english style with bitterness evident. Needs to condition to be better enjoyable 22 Nov 14: 1 week in conditioning the taste is on track, hint of caramel earthy flavors with some bitterness. Could be a fuller beer and I am concerned about the Carbonation which is almost non evident and the lack of a strong bitter taste which is charecturistic of this style. Stay tuned till next week!! 27 Nov 14: Almost 2 weeks since bottle. Its Thanksgiving and I am going to try another one which will be the third. Not impressed with the almost total lack of carbonation but the taste has been pretty good.