After about 3 months of not brewing anything, I finally ran out and decided to make another brown ale.
We started it on the 5th and bottled it Wednesday, so it should be ready just in time for Thanksgiving. I have a ton of unused bottles sitting around, so I will likely brew something else in a couple weeks.
Check out The Smith Family to see what else we’ve been doing.
Shortly after brewing my sparkling ale, I read through the recipe for the lager I planned on making next, and suddenly remembered a major difference between lagers and ales:
Lagers take about 3 months to condition while ales only take a week or two.
This time requirement is the main reason everything I have made so far has been an ale, along with the fact that it would require another 3 or 4 cases of bottles.
We bottled the sparkling ale Sunday and I went ahead and brewed the lager last night. This way I have something to drink while I wait.
The ale, or sparkling beer, as I decided to call it, will be ready around the 27th. The lager should be ready for bottling this weekend, so I will probably buy bottles from my local homebrew store tomorrow.
In case you are keeping track, the sparkling beer was BEER dad brew #14 and red lager is #15.
Tonight I will embark on a journey I call the BEER dad countdown.
Like a modern day Noah, but crafty, I have been saving two of every beer I’ve made.
My English Bitter is ready and so is Laura’s Easter basket. She hasn’t seen it yet, so no telling her what she got.
