When I bottled this beer, the fermenter bucket had an overwhelming smell of clove. I was worried it was going to be undrinkable. Instead, there is barely a hint of clove or cinnamon. Barely a hint of orange. It was boiled in for ten minutes! All I taste is band-aids. After tha...
Holy moly. This beer is explosive. Apparently, I didn't get my 80/20 priming sugar measurement correct, because this batch is so much more carbonated than the first gallon of Backyard Pilsner. It's like champagne. After a couple of days, I ended up moving the whole batch into...
With a bit of nerves, I cracked open my first bottle of my first batch of beer. It didn't have much carbonation. What it did have, in abundance, was a medicinal smell. It smelled and tasted like I had fermented the IO Star sanitizer. Not great. Luckily, there is only one gallo...