Honey Wheat Unplugged - 2nd Rack

Racked the Honey Wheat tonight, had gone back and forth about making another beer but I did pick up an American Pale Ale kit and hoping to have it done by late August.  Of course since I'm brewing and there's a fair bit of downtime on the brew I figured I'd rack the Honey to the secondary fermenter.

I brought the carboy up from the basement and never noticed that there was an earwig on the airlock!  Seems like the little guy was just as excited as I was about the beer.  Fittingly I've decided to name the beer Earwig (Honey) Wheat, maybe just EHW for short. 

What the?@#!  Ah... just an earwig.

Proper Primary... slowing down the fermentation, waiting to be racked to 2nd.

EHW - Earwig (Honey) Wheat

Obviously Mr E didn't affect any of the flavors... but I thought it was touching that he would like to jam out to John Lee Hooker and rack beer.  Of course as soon as I tried grabbing him from the airlock he fell and scurried away.  Later I did find him and kindly (and rarely) showed him out the front door.

SG sitting at a comfortable 1.009 - 1010.  1.054 (OG) vs 1.010 (SG) = 5.75ish ABV.  A reading all earwigs can respect. 

Will likely bottle 1st week of August.

Honey Wheat Unplugged

Given the success of this year's Honey Wheat (mostly consumed over the 4th of July), I decided to give it another try but this time modified the recipe quite a bit.

Instead of Mt. Hood hops I used Hallertau, and more of them.  The honey I used was a specialty farmer's market buy - true Wisconsin wildflower honey from Bonde Bee. 

Process took about 3 hours.  OG was just like the last at 1.054. 

Marzen - First Taste

mmmmm....

Still young in the bottle... I had it in the fridge for about 3 weeks and little carbonation.  Could be different with the bottles in the basement and at a higher temp.  Though the taste is divine.  Loving it.