BCHX still green

had my first bottle bomb. a bottle of the BCHX blew up in the basement, leaving shards of glass and a puddle. two bottles that i put in the freezer opened with just a wisp of carbon dioxide. thin film of head, and not too many bubbles. can't believe it, but these probably need another week in the bottle. not much hop aroma, but plenty bitter with that green, not carbonated enough taste. i'd try this again without the wheat extract.

inki's brown bottling day #3

bottling inki's brown #3? fg before sugar was around 1.015. let it sit in the primary for 4 1/2 weeks. we'll see. crashing some BCHX in the freezer with the priming sugar.

BCHX second taste

after leaving a bottle in the fridge a couple of days, tried the BCHX again: neverending carbonation! i released it slowly with the bottle sitting in a measuring cup to catch all the foam. after about 5 minutes of constant foaming over (about 1/2 the beer escaped as foam), i had stable beer; amber, cloudy, and with a bitter wheat aftertaste. i'm thinking that the bavarian wheat lme might have been a bad idea. i didn't like the taste of it raw as much as the regular lme's. it might mellow out in a bit. not noticing any good hop aroma, sadly. i have a feeling that this needs another week before it settles down, but i'm curious to see if the hop aroma will win out after more conditioning.

BCHX, first taste

made the mistake of opening a bottle of BCHX. probably needs a week or two more, bottle barfed all over the place. mostly head, and tastes like bottling sugar.

bottling day for BCHX

FG in bottling bucket with sugar: 1.015. Caramel red color. Smells awesome. Was in secondary for 1 1/2 weeks, with dry hops for a week or so. Tried to rack with a sock over the cane, got too cloggy, so gave up and racked plain. Not too leafy, also not too much trub, which is odd. Bottles will probably be full of sludge. It looked like it was still a little active, and a taste was very sugary. it's been warm lately. Hopefully fully fermented! Not too worried. Should probably try one in about 10 days. Probably won't be ready, but wtf.

inki's brown again

brewing inki brown tonight. eyeballed the specialty grains, dropped about 1/2 oz on the floor. nice even balanced aroma. cascade at 60, fuggles at 2. cooled wort to 100 and ran through sieve like the last batch. starter looked good and bubbly. can't go wrong (knock on wood). OG before yeast 1.045. aerated while listening to 'alligator'

2oz special B
2oz choclate malt
12 oz crystal 80L (60L?)
cascade 60 bittering
fuggles 2 aroma
3.3 dark
3.3 amber
muntons 6gm

full 5 gallons, through strainer
used same sanitizer (one step) from 9/23
plan on 3 wk primary for this one again. last one was good, but took 2wk bottle cond

racked BCHX

racked bull city experiment (BCHX) to secondary after 2 weeks primary. added 1oz cascade to try try hopping, directly to fermenter. keeping it upstairs to keep temp more constant. temps in 50's outside at night not below 60 inside, i think. gravity at 1.015, good, i thin