Beer #3: Honey Steam
I finally got around to finishing my next home brew last week. I brewed the Honey Steam from Midwest Supplies. I also finished making my kegerator setup as well, which means I didn’t have to bottle this batch. Kegging the beer was a lot easier and faster than bottling, and I also didn’t have to wait one to two weeks to drink the beer like I would have with bottles.
- Beer: Honey Steam from Midwest Supplies
- 6/13: Beer gets brewed, (I forgot to take a reading when I brewed it, so I don’t know the initial gravity)
- 6/21: Transferred from plastic fermenter to glass carboy, there was a lot of gunk floating on the beer
- 6/28: hydrometer reading: 1.009
- 7/6: hydrometer reading: 1.009
- 7/6: transferred to keg, but I couldn’t get the CO2 working correctly
- 7/9: talked to Justin and got the keg pressurized to ~33 psi
- 7/12: beer was done being carbonated on 7/11, didn’t drink it until today
I think this is the best my beer has tasted on the first try. The other two beers were good, but they got better as they aged a bit, but this one was delicious right away. Honey Steam is similar to Anchor Steam, but the recipe called for 3 lbs. of honey which gave it a sweet taste.
I’ll post some pics of the final kegerator setup later.
