Sunday, April 13, 2008

3.0 update

An update on 3.0

A few days have passed and we've started getting anxious about contamination in our brew since there was no visible action on the airlock. While this was probably due to the seal being busted on the airlock we wanted to be certain. In which case we decided it would be a good idea to transfer the brew to a glass carboy. Why this makes sense I am not sure, since if the beer was going to be contaminated it probably would have been already. When I peeled off the top of the fermenter I was greeted with the delicious smells of chocolate and coffee. It was like I was opening up 5 gallons of some crazy chocolate milkshake.

Transferring the beer in a 3rd person narrative:

B Brewer, alone one afternoon took this task upon himself and transfered the fermenting beer to the 5 gallon glass carboy. Shortly after he noticed a a nice frothy head forming at the very small airspace. "Hmmmm this looks like it could be bad" he proclaimed loudly to himself while stroking his chin. Surely enough the froth head reached the airlock and showed no signs of slowing down, it was not happy about being disturbed from its nice and quiet plastic fermenter. B Brewer acted quickly, dashing into his supply closet of random brewing accessories and grabbed a discarded piece of tubing. A Perfect fit onto the airlock, now what do to do with this 5 gallons of frothing beer? Time was running out as the train of bubbles was quickly reaching the end of the newly minted blow off hose. Frantically B Brewer threw off all of items from the bathroom counter and onto his bed. And placed the carboy of angry liquid on the bathroom sink counter and taped down the blow off hose into the drain. After a few hours B Brewer decided that this plan was no good, do to the large volume of delicious smelling froth being lost down the drain. Alas the beer was tamed and transfered back to its preferred home. But not before B Brewer could document this phenomena.

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