Saturday, November 1, 2014

Bottling Thanksgivingfest

On bottling day, the flavor is superior. The late hop additions are present and very pleasant, while the rich melanoidins and lager yeast flavors fill the mouth with that wondrous autumnal flavor. When it is carbonated fully, come Thanksgiving, I hope it is even more delicious. Fresh beer is the best beer. Drinking ones own creation and comparing it to the many fine commercial brews out there is unfair because your own is fresher.

Sharing the dregs with my dad, he took one cautious sip, then shouted, excitedly, "That tastes like an Oktoberfest!" This is high praise because he was comparing it to the beers of Germany, where he was stationed in the army. It was, for him, straight out of the beer halls of Munich, of memory.

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