Monday, June 8, 2009

Spicy Ghost -- wracked

So the weird smell was also on this batch. We can only assume that is has to do with old, canned, hopped malt.

Great. Lots of nasty beer.

I am of a mind to toss the whole batch, but we should probably just wait a month or two and see if it is drinkable.

Mahogony Chocolate Porter -- in bottles

I don't know about this beer anymore. After we wrack it, it went crazy bubbling, so much so that it blew out the top of the airlock and made a mess.

When we cracked it open for bottling it smelled better than when we wracked it, but still pretty bad. We bottled it anyway and were sure to cut down on the priming sugar as it seemed to still be pretty actively converting sugar to alcohol and we did not want to blow the bottles.

Hopefully a couple of months of sitting around will make it okay, but I do not have my hopes up.