Beer #3: Honey Steam

17 Jul, 2007  beer, software

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.

1 Comment

  1. Josh said,

    Wrote on August 7, 2007 @ 3:57 pm

    I tried the Honey Steam last weekend and it was pretty tasty. It is a little sweet, like a cider, and I don’t think I could have more than one or two a night but it was full of flavor and best of all, free. The kegerator rig looked pretty good but I don’t think you can consider it complete until there are 4 kegs in there and 4 taps on the outside. Did you ever look into those custom tap handles for the different beer varieties?

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