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I had the first beer of my second batch last night, its a brown ale from Midwest Supplies called Hex Nut Brown Ale. The beer tasted really good, I would compare it to Newcastle, but a little sweeter. There wasn’t as much carbonation as I wanted, but that might change as the bottles sit longer (I didn’t drink all of them last night ).  Anyways, here are the stats:

• Beer: Hex Nut Brown Ale from Midwest Supplies
• 2/16: Beer gets brewed, hydrometer reading of 1.050
• 2/27: Hydrometer reading 1.018
• 2/27: transferred from plastic fermenter to glass fermenter
• 3/8: hydrometer reading: 1.012
• 3/10: hyrdometer reading: 1.012
• 3/10: Bottled beer, yield was 44 bottles
• 3/24: Tried first bottle, all was good

This beer turned out really well and I think that because I started in the plastic fermenter and then went to glass, and finally back to plastic for the bottling, I was able to reduce the amount of sediment that ended up in the bottles. Also, I didn’t lose as much beer in the transfers, which is shown by the extra four bottles I got this time around.

I also need to point out that it was my friend Josh’s idea to post the details of my beers here, he was a little offended that he didn’t get credit when I posted about my last beer