Today marks a week that my beer has been fermenting. I spent another great deal of time sanitizing all the equipment and 48 bottles (pain in my ass), siphoned the beer from the fermenting bucket (as you see in the picture below) and into the bottling bucket.
As I siphoned the beer, I accidentally introduced some air into the tubing twice which exposes the beer to a bit more oxygen then I think is supposed to happen. I hope this won't be a big deal, but its too late to fix it at this point. It'll either be ok or not.
I think I may still be having problems with the hydrometer because both when I brewed the beer and today when bottling I was getting readings that I did not expect. Again I hope this isn't as big of a deal as it currently seems. Today's reading was reporting less alcohol content than I was expecting. I also wonder if this reading is correct if it has anything to do with the first day of fermentation being relatively warm, before I moved it to a cooler location.
Capping was easy and quick. Labeling will follow fermentation.
I now have another week of fermentation in the bottle followed by between 0 days and 3 weeks for conditioning. It'll be a test of will power.
Jay
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