Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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.

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