{"id":56,"date":"2009-09-21T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:14:44","slug":"batch-1-10-dark-ale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=56","title":{"rendered":"Batch #2-10: Dark Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Style<\/td>\nDark Lager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ingredients<\/td>\nCooper’s Dark Ale Pre-Hopped Malt Extract Kit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brewing Date:<\/td>\nSunday, January 10, 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Fermentation:<\/td>\nSunday, January 10, 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original Gravity:<\/td>\n1.032<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secondary Fermentation:<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bottling Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, January 20, 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Gravity:<\/td>\n1.010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Date:<\/td>\nMardi Gras, Tuesday, February 16, 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alcohol by volume:<\/td>\n3.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Release Name:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Jazz Drinker
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This will be a revisit to a Cooper’s brew can, which worked very well last year.<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/p>\n

01\/10 @ 5:30PM\u00a0 :: Mixed boiling water, 2lbs corn sugar and the malt can into the brew pot, and boiled it for 15 minutes.\u00a0 Wow, this is nothing after doing the partial mash brews.\u00a0 Used the 3 gallons of near-freezing water after a 10-minute ice bath, and the temperature in the fermentation bucket dropped down to 70 degrees instantly.\u00a0 Pitched the yeast and sealed the bucket.\u00a0 I’m using the wicking method with this batch as well.<\/p>\n

01\/13\u00a0 @ 7:00 PM :: It took almost 48 hours, but the bubble cycles have started at 12-15 second intervals, with mild bursts up to 1 second long.\u00a0 Typical for a dry yeast start.<\/p>\n

01\/20 @ 9:00 PM :: Bubbling cycles were just under 1 minute on Monday.\u00a0 Today was the time I had free to bottle.\u00a0 Yield is 57 12oz bottles.\u00a0 The batch has a very smooth taste on the palate.\u00a0 Release is scheduled for Mardi Gras.<\/p>\n

02\/08 @ 9:00PM :: Opened another bottle to try.\u00a0 This beer now has a noticeable bite and bitterness on the palate.\u00a0 It is also a little thin, like a Budweiser or traditional American commerical beer.\u00a0 I’m sure that is because I added about 1\/2 gallon more water to up the quantity to 5.5 gallons.\u00a0 It is quite drinkable, and has a pretty good taste.\u00a0 Definitely a picnic beer.\u00a0 The closest I can compare it to is a Yuengling Black & Tan.<\/p>\n

Making this beer now, after four consecutive, partial mash (i.e. raw ingredient) batches has really shown me the difference between the pre-made malt extract kit in a can, and the flavor influence available with partial mash.<\/p>\n

Feedback on this beer was that it was good.\u00a0 I really didn’t expect more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Style Dark Lager Ingredients Cooper’s Dark Ale Pre-Hopped Malt Extract Kit Brewing Date: Sunday, January 10, 10 Primary Fermentation: Sunday, January 10, 10 Original Gravity: 1.032 Secondary Fermentation: n\/a Bottling Date: Wednesday, January 20, 10 Final Gravity: 1.010 Release Date: Mardi Gras, Tuesday, February 16, 10 Alcohol by volume: 3.4% Final Release Name: The Jazz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/99"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}